SG Fairy

" Chertoff echoed the White House line -- saying the time to place blame will come later. But he also hinted at an emerging line of defense, saying federal officials had problems getting information from local officials and were surprised they hadn't been told by Thursday of the violence and horrible conditions at the New Orleans convention center.

"I got to tell you that hearing reports on TV and then calling the field and hearing something different is not what the secretary of Homeland Security wants to see happening," he said on "Fox News Sunday."

Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-Louisiana, lashed back, saying she won't tolerate federal officials' denigrating local efforts to deal with the catastrophe.

"If one person criticizes them or says one more thing, including the president of the United States, he will hear from me," she said on the ABC's "This Week." "One more word about it after this show airs and I might likely have to punch him. Literally." "

Go to: http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/05/katrina.bush.ap/index.html for the rest of the story.

For fuck's sake... people are DYING out there... and you're busy trying to play taiji???

You know, it's almost like as though they dun fucking care about the many lives out there... I mean, seriously, I don't sense any love or real concern.

That's it. That's what I've been so troubled about.. what seems like a lack of genuine concern for their fellow-countrymen.

George Bush is not spending all his time on the hurricane. Instead, he's busy nominating John Roberts for the post of Chief Justice. (http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/05/roberts.nomination/index.html)

Any person who is able to think logically would figure, ok, this hurricane is a NATIONAL disaster, not just some state thing. You would have thought that after all the bad publicity, the Pres. would go spend his time hugging the surviors or something, even if he hated doing that. Getting someone to fill the position of Chief Justice is not as important as the whole humanitarian thing. But obviously Bush doesn't know his priorities - he's not a People's President.

I mean, if he was off on a meeting to handle the oil issue, fine, you could say that this is something which would really affect every single person.
But nominating someone????

Oh, by the way... while Bush cancelled his meeting with Chinese President Hu, Blair was getting all cosy with the Chinese.
(http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/050905121511.7bt3xtbz.html)

Anyways...

I think this is one way to look at the way the Bush Administration is handling the hurricane situation:
" (Celine) Dion also slammed authorities for arresting looters in the city that became a hellish haven of crime and violence after the storm laid waste to its infrastructure and services, saying rescue should be the only priority.

"How come it's so easy to send planes in another country to kill everyone in a second, to destroy lives?" Dion said in an angry reference to the US-led war in Iraq. "
http://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/050905060806.gb5jo658.html

Maybe they are not like that, but the Bush Administration seems bent on creating the impression to the world, and its own countrymen, that they prefer killing, to saving people.