What's the deal met Kärt Pärt (19) - What's the deal in New Orleans ?

Op de vraag "what's the deal in New Orleans" weten ze het antwoord onderhand wel in New Orleans : there was NO deal at all ! Bush is definitely NOT on top of the situation and will NEVER get on top of it.

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Cindy Sheehan
George Bush has been an incompetent failure his entire life. Fortunately, for humanity, he was just partying his way through school, running companies into the ground and being an alcoholic and cocaine abuser for most of that time and his incompetence was limited to hurting the people who worked for him and his own family. The people in his life who were hurt by his incompetence probably have been able to "get on" with their lives. Now, though, his incompetence affects the world and is responsible for so many deaths and so much destruction. How many of us did not foresee the mess he would make of the world when he was selected the first time? We saw what he had done to Texas. How many of us marveled and were so discouraged and amazed when he was "re-elected" the second time? We saw what he had done to the world. Dangerous incompetence should never be rewarded.

The Bush administration is an abject failure. The unnecessary tragedy in New Orleans is directly related to the unnecessary tragedy in Iraq: Unnecessary being the operative word.
Innocent people are dying daily in this world. I really believe that George and his band of incompetent and dangerous thugs need to resign. It would be the only honorable and competent thing to do.

Dr. Calvin Butts
'It's black people who are dying, so Bush doesn't care'
President Bush is not a strong leader. There's something wrong with him and it comes from two places. First, a lack of concern for poor people, and certainly poor black people. Second, like his father, he's probably not even aware that these people exist. Even if he knew they existed and even if he were concerned, I'm not sure [he would know] what to do, whom to call. If this hurricane had struck a white, middle-class neighbourhood in the north-east or the south-west, his response would have been a lot stronger and I think he would have had more of those people around him who are supposed to know what to do moving a lot more quickly.

If you can call Dick Cheney and say: "We're going to Iraq", and Cheney can say: "I can get Halliburton - for the right amount of money of course" and we can move thousands of troops in there overnight and get them set up so we can wage an offensive thousands of miles away in the desert, you mean to tell me that there aren't people there who could say: "We know how to solve this, Mr President; we'll help you"?

The response to 9/11 was strong and immediate and people knew what to do, and the recovery, except for the redevelopment of the property, has been nothing short of miraculous. And now look at this and you can see the stark difference.

In New Orleans, there was a criminal lack of preparation. We have known about the weakness of the levee for a long time; we've known that hurricanes would increase in number and intensity for a long time; we knew that evacuations should have come a lot earlier; we knew that New Orleans is below sea level. The population in those areas most vulnerable is poor and largely black, and race and class are huge issues since the conservative takeover of US politics. The urban policy of this administration is terrible, but this has been going on for a long time, so it's not just this particular Bush. It's the conservative backlash we have witnessed maybe since Nixon, or certainly Reagan. This president is just the stark epitome of it all.

I am shocked and I am not shocked by what is happening now. It is instructive to a lot of people that we really have not been concerned about the poor and certainly about the blacks in this nation. When you look at who is in control of the politics, when you look at who the appeal has been to from the conservatives, you see that whole racial element coming up again. Louisiana is pulling the sheath off the nation.