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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (66895)	9/12/2005 7:44:07 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 81568

Kerry is history. We are yalking about our President Why ignore the US and its President. You mean the other countries such as Australia care more about this country than you do? Warnings ignored as storm gathered 12sep05 US federal officials badly misjudged Hurricane Katrina, sending only seven of 28 urban search and rescue teams to the area before the storm hit. They sent no workers at all into New Orleans until after Katrina passed. This was despite an extraordinary warning from the National Hurricane Centre of "human suffering incredible by modern standards". Officials have revealed the post-hurricane crisis was deepened by a standoff between federal and Louisiana authorities. As police continued searching for the dead yesterday and US President George W. Bush prepared for his third visit to New Orleans on the fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, officials said the controlling agency did not take the warnings seriously enough. Dozens of officials told the New York Times the Federal Emergency Management Agency expected the state and city to cope or ask for help as needed. But leaders in Louisiana and New Orleans were so overwhelmed by the hurricane they were not only unable to manage, but were not always sure what they needed. While local officials assumed Washington would provide rapid and considerable aid, federal officials, weighing legalities and logistics, proceeded at a deliberate pace, the sources said. They said FEMA seemed to have underestimated the storm. A New Orleans city councillor said a FEMA official, who had just flown over the city, seemed to have trouble conveying to his bosses the degree of destruction after the storm. "He got on the phone to Washington, and I heard him say, 'You've got to understand how serious this is, and this is not what they're telling me, this is what I saw myself,' " Cr Cynthia Hedge-Morrell said. With the confirmed number of dead approaching 400 across the region, a local disaster official said the number of bodies so far recovered from the receding floodwaters suggested that estimates of 10,000 dead looked excessive. A ban on media covering the retrieval of bodies was lifted yesterday. The city will be drained by October 8, army engineers said. – AFP heraldsun.news.com.au

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (66895)	9/13/2005 3:36:29 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

Message to lefty on another thread ________________________________________________________- To: Mr. Palau who wrote (701740) 9/13/2005 3:24:28 PM From: paret "Remember when Bill Clinton went out with Monica Lewinsky? " NO. But I remember when Monica sucked on Clinton's whatchamacallit while Clinton was married and (supposedly) the chief executive of the United States and that Clinton lied UNDER OATH and as a result is DISBARRED in Arkansas and also from practicing before the US Supreme Court. And that now in the US. as a result of Clinton, the younger teenage population of the US has learned the FACT that sucking on another's whatchamacallit is not "sex." Good Boy, Cocaine Bill. That and 9-11 is your legacy.