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To: combjelly who wrote (252703)	9/26/2005 7:29:37 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1571683

Arriving late From Paris to London to the Great White North, President Bush and his administration fielded a barrage of criticism for their slow federal response to Hurricane Katrina. Then there's the opinion of David Warren, a columnist for Canada's Ottawa Citizen, which we find worth repeating. "There's plenty wrong with America," writes Mr. Warren. "I'm tempted to say that the only difference from Canada is that they have a few things right. That would be unfair, of course -- I am often pleased to discover things we still get right. "But one of them would not be disaster preparation. If something happened up here, on the scale of Katrina, we wouldn't even have the resources to arrive late. We would be waiting for the Americans to come save us, the same way the government in Louisiana just waved and pointed at Washington, D.C. The theory being that, when you're in real trouble, that's where the adults live."