Apparently, Bush is leading the enquiry into the disaster. Is it too
cynical to say that we know what the answers are already?
Iran is sending 20million barrels of oil to the US as aid.
I'm not sure if I'm living in the Truman Show directed by the Onion or
if the world is turned upside down. I'll just go outside and check.
Roger
On 9/6/05, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Ken I agree with what you say below, but just to put the record
> straight: I quoted that, didn't actually 'say' it myself, although I
> wish I had.
>
> One of the really appalling comments was about people nearly drowning
> in the aftermath of the levee break seeing people in an airforce base
> across the road playing basketball rather than being called into
> action -- right IN NO!
>
> 'Chain" of command?
>
> Doug
> On 6-Sep-05, at 7:30 AM, Ken Wolman wrote:
>
> > Douglas Barbour wrote:
> >
> >> And don't even get me started on comparisons to Bush administration
> >> behavior from the moment, also in Crawford in August 2001, that the
> >> President and his advisors ignored the infamous CIA daily
> >> intelligence briefing on Osama bin Laden ("Bin Laden determined to
> >> attack inside the U.S."), delivered at a length and with a simplicity
> >> that even George Bush should have been able to absorb. Speaking of
> >> déjà vu all over again, his recent behavior re: Katrina echoed
> >> strangely his 9/11 behavior. After all, on 9/11, he first sat
> >> paralyzed in a classroom in Florida, then boarded Air Force One and
> >> headed not for Washington but (gulp…) for Louisiana. It was an act of
> >> panic if not cowardice that was quickly covered over when he finally
> >> did make it to Washington and later New York City, talking tough and
> >> launching his war against Evil.
> >
> > Tim Russert, hardly a spokesman for The Underground (velvet or
> > otherwise) was as close to insane as I've ever heard a journalist.
> > Nagin I can understand: his city was in ruins. Russert went on (of
> > all outlets) Don Imus' radio show. He mentioned that on 9/11/2001,
> > part of the tragedy was due to a complete communication/coordination
> > breakdown between and among the Fire Department, the cops, and the
> > other rescue units. Nobody knew where anyone was or who was doing
> > what. Homeland Security was supposed to prevent reoccurences of this
> > mess.
> >
> > Right.
> >
> > In the days approaching Katrina's landfall, nobody seemed to be able
> > to coordinate. You could see that horrible thing massing offshore,
> > pointing right at the city. Yet there were no troops put on alert, no
> > rescue ships or land vehicles, and what was there had no way of
> > talking to the others. The Homeland Security coordinator, Chertoff,
> > claimed he wasn't told anything! I don't believe him yet I would not
> > be surprised if this were the truth. The USS Bataan, with several
> > hundred beds and six operating rooms, sat off the Gulf Coast and was
> > never called into service.
> > Russert's final question: "If New York, LA or Chicago, or a nuclear
> > power station or refinery were attacked by real terrorists today,
> > would we be ready? Would you want to trust your safety to this
> > government?"
> >
> > That's why the Bush administration defenders on "talk radio" think
> > Russert is the reincarnation of Ho Chi Minh. He will ask questions
> > nobody wants to hear because they can't answer them.
> >
> > Ken
> >
> > --
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> >
> Douglas Barbour
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>
> not random, these
> crystalline structures, these
> non-reversible orders, this
> camera forming tendencies, this
> edge of greater length, this
> lyric forever error, this
> something embarrassingly clear, this
> language we come up against
>
> Kathleen Fraser
>
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