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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	9/8/2005 8:50:32 AM
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'Americans need to understand that people were stranded and dying for days in the Superdome for the same reason that, two-and-a-half years later, the road between downtown Baghdad and the airport is still not secured: George Bush doesn't care, except when it begins to pinch him personally. Americans need to understand that the reason we were unprepared for Hurricane Katrina is the same reason we were unprepared for the attacks of 9/11: this worse-than-useless quasi-occupant of the Oval Office was extending yet further his record for most vacation time taken by an American president, and ignoring imminent crises. Americans need to understand that Katrina victims could not get supplies for days on end for the same reason that soldiers in Iraq still don't have adequate armor: this president, who gets almost everything he wants, couldn't be bothered to want these things. Americans need to understand that FEMA is inept for the same reason that the national treasury is hemorrhaging a sea of red ink: because they've chosen a president who views the federal government as a personal playground for cronyism and looting. Americans need to understand that the same president who gave medals to George Tenet and Paul Bremer for their unbelievably botched service to American and Iraqi security is now praising Michael Brown, the head of FEMA, for "doing a heckuva job". Americans need to understand that Hurricane Katrina happened for the same reason that Arctic ice masses and Siberian tundra are melting: this country has a president who ignores the reality of global warming, hurtling us toward destruction on an unprecedented scale. And Americans need to understand that the same president who has shown himself so incredibly inept this week was just as useless in the days following 9/11 as well - the retrospectively redacted 'history' of his leadership notwithstanding. Just as he ran away then and lied about doing so, he ran away this week as well, and lied about the government's disaster response and preparation. ' commondreams.org

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