Sunday, September 04, 2005
"These people are dying for no other reason than the lack of organization...."
The more I read, see and hear, the more sick to my stomach and upset I get. The situation in NOLA (and elsewhere) is "criminal."
Despite the rescue and evacuation efforts finally getting underway in a significant way, the extent of how incomeptently and shamefully this catastrophe has been mishandled is slowly emerging:
"The only difference between the chaos of New Orleans and a Third World disaster operation is that a foreign dictator would have responded better." (read more here)
Major combat operations have just begun? The US government is now describing it's own citizens, those who couldn't afford to leave NOLA, as an insurgency? WTF?! Is there no end to the shame? (via Boing Boing)
FEMA: Mission (Not) Accomplished. And depsite the Right-leaning media and the federal government trying to spin the mess down in NOLA and the Gulf region as the fault of Mayor Ray Nagin and Gov. Kathleen Blanco rather than the Bush adminstration's own incompetence, the Federal disaster management agency even admits on its own website that they would assume primary responsibility for handling any "natural disaster or large-scale emergency" as clear as day. (via AMERICAblog)
And it's especially hard for the Bush admin. to feign ignorance about the possibility of a disaster like this occuring in light of this.
Sh-it is so bad now that even Sen. Mary Landrieu, who was put on blast on CNN by Anderson Cooper a couple days ago for glibly thanking Bush for his assistance despite the lack of it, has now changed her tune in light of Bush's compete lack of leadership in this tragedy including substituting fake photo opps for real action.
And even Republicans are attacking the President for his weak response to this tragedy too.
I pray the federal government really will hold the Bush admin. accountable for this disaster.
And FINALLY the media wakes up out of the stupor they've been in for the last four to five years and starts to call the Bush admin. on their BS. Even Fox Cable News reporters couldn't deny the insanity going on down there.
But the scariest thing of all is that Hurricane Katrina might not be the last of the severe weather devastation this region may have suffer through.
