Mike, LOL, you did a very good joke, I liked it.
Hakan At 16:53 02/09/2005, you wrote: >Whine whine. At least he caught Osama Bin Laden, just like he promised. > >Hakan Falk wrote: > > >Taryn, > > > >You must admit that he killed many more in Iraq for the money, > >he is responsible for those death also, maybe he call that > >efficiency instead. More killed for the money. I can guarantee > >that the pictures of devastated people that we now see from > >Orleans, have been going on for many years in Iraq. So it is > >not only Bush fault, he only raised the bar and achieved much > >more in shorter time frame. > > > >When media show the desperation among the Iraqi people, it > >is not many who cares, maybe Orleans will create more of > >compassion for the country that US occupy. The homes that > >are destroyed and people killed in Iraq, are 100's times more > >than Orleans. > > > >Hakan > > > > > >At 08:38 02/09/2005, you wrote: > > > > > >>Wow, nice catch Bede, Fits right in with "is there blame?" > >> > >>I just love to blame stuff on Bush and his cronies. Except...I'm not > >>sure that all the kings men could have put Orleans together again. > >> > >>Certainly, having pissed away the country's emergency resources, Bush > >>is responsible for many of the deaths in La and Ms. Kinda like stupid > >>kids who empty the fire extinguishers in school. But I think Katrina, > >>and years of head-in-the-sand development is what drowned Orleans. > >> > >>taryn > >>http://ornae.com/ > >> > >>On Sep 1, 2005, at 9:16 PM, Bede wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10062.htm > >>> > >>> > >>>How New Orleans Was Lost > >>> > >>>By Paul Craig Roberts > >>> > >>>09/01/05 "Antiwar" -- -- Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of > >>>Bush's Iraq war. > >>> > >>>There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and > >>>rescue > >>>people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National > >>>Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against > >>>looting. > >>> > >>>The situation is the same in Mississippi. > >>> > >>>The National Guard and helicopters are off on a fool's mission in Iraq. > >>> > >>>The National Guard is in Iraq because fanatical neoconservatives in > >>>the Bush > >>>administration were determined to invade the Middle East and because > >>>incompetent Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld refused to listen to the > >>>generals, > >>>who told him there were not enough regular troops available to do the > >>>job. > >>> > >>>After the invasion, the arrogant Rumsfeld found out that the generals > >>>were > >>>right. The National Guard was called up to fill in the gaping gaps. > >>> > >>>Now the Guardsmen, trapped in the Iraqi quagmire, are watching on TV > >>>the > >>>families they left behind trapped by rising waters and wondering if the > >>>floating bodies are family members. None know where their dislocated > >>>families are, but, shades of Fallujah, they do see their destroyed > >>>homes. > >>> > >>>The mayor of New Orleans was counting on helicopters to put in place > >>>massive > >>>sandbags to repair the levee. However, someone called the few > >>>helicopters > >>>away to rescue people from rooftops. The rising water overwhelmed the > >>>massive pumping stations, and New Orleans disappeared under deep water. > >>> > >>>What a terrible casualty of the Iraqi war one of our oldest and most > >>>beautiful cities, a famous city, a historic city. > >>> > >>>Distracted by its phony war on terrorism, the U.S. government had made > >>>no > >>>preparations in the event Hurricane Katrina brought catastrophe to New > >>>Orleans. No contingency plan existed. Only now after the disaster are > >>>FEMA > >>>and the Corps of Engineers trying to assemble the material and > >>>equipment to > >>>save New Orleans from the fate of Atlantis. > >>> > >>>Even worse, articles in the New Orleans Times-Picayune and public > >>>statements > >>>by emergency management chiefs in New Orleans make it clear that the > >>>Bush > >>>administration slashed the funding for the Corps of Engineers' > >>>projects to > >>>strengthen and raise the New Orleans levees and diverted the money to > >>>the > >>>Iraq war. > >>> > >>>Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, told > >>>the > >>>New Orleans Times-Picayune (June 8, 2004): "It appears that the money > >>>has > >>>been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and > >>>the war > >>>in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is > >>>happy that > >>>the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to > >>>make the > >>>case that this is a security issue for us." > >>> > >>>Why can't the U.S. government focus on America's needs and leave other > >>>countries alone? Why are American troops in Iraq instead of protecting > >>>our > >>>own borders from a mass invasion by illegal immigrants? Why are > >>>American > >>>helicopters blowing up Iraqi homes instead of saving American homes in > >>>New > >>>Orleans? > >>> > >>>How can the Bush administration be so incompetent as to expose > >>>Americans at > >>>home to dire risks by exhausting American resources in foolish foreign > >>>adventures? What kind of "homeland security" is this? > >>> > >>>All Bush has achieved by invading Iraq is to kill and wound thousands > >>>of > >>>people while destroying America's reputation. The only beneficiaries > >>>are oil > >>>companies capitalizing on a good excuse to jack up the price of > >>>gasoline and > >>>Osama bin Laden's recruitment. > >>> > >>>What we have is a Republican war for oil company profits while New > >>>Orleans > >>>sinks beneath the waters. > >>> > >>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Biofuel mailing list > >>>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > >>>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/ > >>>biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >>> > >>>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > >>>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >>> > >>>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 > >>>messages): > >>>http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Biofuel mailing list > >>Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > >>http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >> > >>Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > >>http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >> > >>Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz > list archives (50,000 messages): > >>http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > >> > >> > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Biofuel mailing list > >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz > list archives (50,000 messages): > >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
