He spent the day on the ground today, walking parts of New Orleans, and Mississippi.
Just like 9/11, it was a few days after it happened. Greg H. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <Biofuel@sustainablelists.org> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 20:45 Subject: Re: [Biofuel] How New Orleans Was Lost Thanks. I personally can't believe all he did was fly by in his jet and look down. This is a catastrophe far worse than 9/11 and all he does is a fly by? I can't even get started on Iraq because I don't want to get wound up right now. Hakan Falk wrote: >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.or g >>>> >>>>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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
