Should Bush Apologize to all the families of the dead in New Orleans?

[Hubert Flottz]

I think that's long overdue. How many days was it before any food or water got there? How many days before Bush ended his cake eating vacation/political junket/bunko tour, with McCain and realize that New Orleans was indeed a major disaster? Bush was too busy running all over the country, on our dime, selling his Social Security scam.

To the GOP, Bush's campaigning to help their donors on Wall Street steal our Social Security, was more important, than the victims on the storm stricken Gulf coast were...Bush left it all up to Brownie and kept on partying and selling.

Bush was busy measuring for new drapes and a new hobby horse, that he would buy for the pig farm, with all his big Kick-backs from his Wall Street cronies and accomplices, after the BushCo Mob's BIG rip off of YOUR Social Security funds, in the SS privatization scam Bush was selling.

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I never saw pictures of dogs eating dead bodies on American

streets, under a democratic administration, did you?

What should we tell the children, about that?

[KittyWampus]

4. Oh, SNAP!

[babylonsister]

13. Yes, I did, after Katrina. And I know who's responsible. nt

[Stephanie]

21. I'd still like to know how much he raised at the fundraiser that Monday night

Big fundraiser at the Hotel del Coronado, on the beach in San Diego. They must have had a swell time, while New Orleans drowned. And I'd still like to know if, as rumored, he played golf that afternoon. Also, do they not have televisions at the Hotel del Coronado? Was it too much trouble for him to flip on CNN for a few minutes, as the rest of the world was glued in shock and horror to the coverage? We were desperately praying the roof wouldn't blow off the Superdome while BUSH ATE CAKE.

[Divernan]

2. Chertoff/Bush refused approval for FEMA professionals to go to NOLA wk.before

As is the standard operating procedure for the 7 regional FEMA offices, they each send every available FEMA employee from all over the country to whatever area is experiencing a natural disaster. In the case of Katrina, the FEMA professionals (as opposed to the political appointee hacks appointed by Bush to the top management levels) were all packed and ready to fly to NOLA about four days before the hurricane made landfall. They were literally leaving one person in each of the regional offices to "keep the lights on". However Chertoff (in consultation with Bush &/or Bush's handlers) refused authorization requested by these hundreds of emergency relief workers to go to NOLA until several days AFTER the hurricane struck. How many people drowned in their attics could have been successfully evacuated if Chertoff had not blocked these experienced and well-trained relief workers?

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Bush must not be sorry...

Or at least he never seemed sorry as he partied on and ate birthday cakes with McCain and got a new guitar and played golf with Arnold...

[spacelady]

10. I think the appearance of *'s reptilian tongue is very revealing in

this photo. Kind of a Kharma moment.

[KittyWampus]

5. I'm going to recommend this one, yes I am

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Thank you for your recommendation

And thanks all DUers for being here and for fighting back.

[malaise]

6. I hope the Dems are coming up with an ad

with a list and video of all the apologies Bush needs to make. Katrina must be there. I'm lovin it. Get out the popcorn:rofl: :popcorn:

[Hubert Flottz]

7. I have made myself so sad I'm going to stop...

My poor country.

[malaise]

8. Better days

are coming. On the offensive. Cheer up :D

[Hubert Flottz]

12. Won't it be great to feel up beat again...

after feeling beat up for so long?

[malaise]

14. Indeed

The World Can't Wait :D

[Island Blue]

9. I think John McCain should apologize

for eating cake with the Giggling Murderer while people in New Orleans were suffering and dying. What a fantastic presidenital role model he has.

[texpatriot2004]

11. Yes, up close and personal too nm

[Cha]

15. bush should be tried in a court

of law on his running away from New Orleans when Katrina hit New Orleans.

Where's the Justice?

[Hubert Flottz]

16. Bush is indeed Sorry, but...

he feels no remorse.

He'd cry like a baby if they led him off to jail. But he'd NEVER cry for anyone but himself.

[Hubert Flottz]

18. Bush was busy while the folks were dying in the Super Dome...

A Shameful Proclamation

On Thursday, President Bush issued a proclamation suspending the law that requires employers to pay the locally prevailing wage to construction workers on federally financed projects. The suspension applies to parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

By any standard of human decency, condemning many already poor and now bereft people to subpar wages - thus perpetuating their poverty - is unacceptable. It is also bad for the economy. Without the law, called the Davis-Bacon Act, contractors will be able to pay less, but they'll also get less, as lower wages invariably mean lower productivity.

The ostensible rationale for suspending the law is to reduce taxpayers' costs. Does Mr. Bush really believe it is the will of the American people to deny the prevailing wage to construction workers in New Orleans, Biloxi and other hard-hit areas? Besides, the proclamation doesn't require contractors to pass on the savings they will get by cutting wages from current low levels. Around New Orleans, the prevailing hourly wage for a truck driver working on a levee is $9.04; for an electrician, it's $14.30.

Republicans have long been trying to repeal the prevailing wage law on the grounds that the regulations are expensive and bureaucratic; weakening it was even part of the Republican Party platform in 1996 and 2000. Now, in a time of searing need, the party wants to achieve by fiat what it couldn't achieve through the normal democratic process. MORE...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/opinion/10sat2.html?ex=1284004800&en=ce318bfc9e432731&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

Bush was busy looking out for Halliburton...

Bush was also looking out for Bush...trying to grab more power and using the VICTIMS to do it, like he did after 9/11...

Blackwater Down
Fresh From Iraq, Private Security Forces Roam the Streets of an American City With Impunity

by Jeremy Scahill

The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior US diplomats in Iraq beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene in another devastated Gulf. About 150 heavily armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos of New Orleans. Officially, the company boasted of its forces "join the hurricane relief effort." But its men on the ground told a different story.

Some patrolled the streets in SUVs with tinted windows and the Blackwater logo splashed on the back; others sped around the French Quarter in an unmarked car with no license plates. They congregated on the corner of St. James and Bourbon in front of a bar called 711, where Blackwater was establishing a makeshift headquarters. From the balcony above the bar, several Blackwater guys cleared out what had apparently been someone's apartment. They threw mattresses, clothes, shoes and other household items from the balcony to the street below. They draped an American flag from the balcony's railing. More than a dozen troops from the 82nd Airborne Division stood in formation on the street watching the action.

Armed men shuffled in and out of the building as a handful told stories of their past experiences in Iraq. "I worked the security detail of both Bremer and Negroponte," said one of the Blackwater guys, referring to the former head of the US occupation, L. Paul Bremer, and former US Ambassador to Iraq John Negroponte. Another complained, while talking on his cell phone, that he was getting only $350 a day plus his per diem. "When they told me New Orleans, I said, 'What country is that in?'" he said. He wore his company ID around his neck in a case with the phrase Operation Iraqi Freedom printed on it.

In an hourlong conversation I had with four Blackwater men, they characterized their work in New Orleans as "securing neighborhoods" and "confronting criminals." They all carried automatic assault weapons and had guns strapped to their legs. Their flak jackets were covered with pouches for extra ammunition. MORE...

http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views05/0922-22.htm

Bush wasn't sorry about the dead in New Orleans...he was looking to reap the fruits of another big power grab, like he did in New York City. Another "Trifecta"

[Cha]

20. You've seen this, haven't you?

From Green Day & U2 at the first football game at the Superdome? Then they made a video out of their song "The Saints Are Coming"..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU

[chill_wind]

19. Now THERE'S a poll we've never seen on CNN and never will.

Along with one like

"Should Bush 'apologize' to the troops for sending thousands of them to their deaths in a war based on WMD lies?".


K&R