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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:30 AM
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Bush Insists Help Is On The Way - BBC article:
Oops - he said it again:

George Bush said now was not the time to touch down in New Orleans
US President George Bush has admitted there is "frustration" at the speed of the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina's hit on the Gulf Coast.

"I fully understand people wanting things to have happened yesterday. I mean I understand the anxiety of people on the ground... So there is frustration but I want people to know there's a lot of help coming," he said in an interview with ABC television.

He said the operation being mounted was one of the biggest in US history, and inevitably took time to get under way.

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did appreciate a serious storm but these levees got breached and as a result much of New Orleans is flooded and now we're having to deal with it and will," he said.

cont'd...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4204754.stm
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LeftyElvis Donating Member (136 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:31 AM
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1. Biggest in history?
bullshit.
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bufffbison Donating Member (384 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:37 AM
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2. "They did appreciate a serious storm"
what did the new orleans do to appreciate it? ran out to the streets so debris can smack them across the head, or to drown? Or perhaps they appreciated the storm so much, so it gives people the chance to loot.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:37 AM
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3. That's what Bush promised to the military -- link
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/3/7/213753/1954

Bush's flip flops
by kos
Sun Mar 7th, 2004 at 18:37:53 PDT
So Bush has a site somewhere that tracks Kerry's "flip-flops". Reader TK probably spent three seconds coming up with this list of Bush flip flops. It's not like they're hard to find:

* Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.
* Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.
* Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.
* Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.
* Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.
* Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.
* Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.
* Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State.
* Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage, then he is for changing the constitution.
* Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.
* Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ... then he cuts benefits.
* Bush-"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden. Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care.
* Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.
* Bush talks about helping education and increases mandates while cutting funding.
* Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will
* Bush goes to Bob Jones University. Then say's he shouldn't have.
* Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote
* Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors.  Bush later admits it was his advance team.
* Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the US. Bush after meeting with Pres. Fox, he's against it.

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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:37 AM
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4. Didn't they say that on the Titanic
just before it sank?
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 10:46 AM
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5. Well, since those levees would have been such a potential target
for 'terraist' - why the f*/@# didn't Homeland Security already have a plan in place????

With the hurricane, they had days to prepare for this, imagine if 'Al Quaida' (their #3 man, of course) would have set off a bomb against the levee and caused the flooding with no warning to the city of NO to evacuate?

HS and the * misadministration are proving that they've been focused on the wrong damn thing for the past 4 years.

Are we any safer today than we were 4 years ago? HELL NO!
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cyberpj Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:03 AM
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6. Harry Connick (from N.O.) is there and reporting to MSNBC about
how bad it is for people still there.

Taking a camera around the convention center.

WHY IS THERE STILL NO WATER!?!?!?!?!?


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