About time. Still, a little late in my book. Greg and April wrote:
>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/ > > > _______________________________________________ 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/
