Dubya's Head Is In The Sand(bag).
My heart is with the residents of New Orleans during this horrible moment in history. The magnitude of utter devastation is almost too huge to contemplate, so I guess I understand the inaction of the leader of the United States of America, President George W. Bush. Dubya does have a short attention span, and y'all know he has other priorities. Besides, this catastrophe happened in Louisiana, not Connecticut or New York, and the poor black folks who are most affected by this disaster probably vote for Democrats anyway.
Dubya has a made up war to fight, so the distraction caused by the monumental human tragedy in the deep, dark south has to wait in line for his attention. How is the Leader of the Free World supposed to find the money, time and expertise to keep New Orleans from sinking when he is busy trying to ensure that not a single building is left standing in Iraq?
What's a good old boy to do? He tells the National Guard they should "Shoot to Kill" if they see blacks looting. Whites finding goods and taking them away are fine, though.
Having all but decimated the agencies whose very reason for existence was to act in emergency situations such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in order to funnel money into his "War on Terror", Dubya has totally forsaken his duty to protect his own citizens from harm. Ask any of the displaced, sick, hungry and frightened thousands of victims of this natural disaster about terror. They don't need to worry about the twin bogeymen of weapons of mass destruction and an oil shortage, mass destruction has been visited upon them by Mother Nature, the terrors they face are real: starvation, sickness, death.
Days after the devastation in New Orleans and surrounding areas, the neediest, poorest and most vulnerable citizens were left to watch their lives disintegrate before their eyes. Had these Americans ever felt they mattered, they were disabused of the notion that Uncle Sam gives a tinker's damn about the poor relations.
The United States of America will never be the same. After September 11, 2001, when Americans showed courage in tragic circumstances, proving they were good neighbors, they could come together in a crisis, they did take care of their own, and the world saw Americans as human beings with the capacity to show compassion and empathy. Even Dubya looked like a decent man. Now the world sees those same Americans ignoring the immense suffering of an entire city, blaming the people of New Orleans for not being prepared, hemming and hawing over aid, rescue missions and providing relief. Instead of acting like a strong leader, Dubya is showing his true colours, he's protecting his interests, and he's basically told Louisianans that they are on their own. He's got bigger fish to fry. He was handed the opportunity to do the right thing, and he failed. He'll leave American soldiers in Iraq, where they have systematically destroyed a country that was already weakened from years of living under in a brutal dictatorship. He'll continue to spend obscene amounts of money to annihilate a culture he views as substandard. He'll fight to the bloody end to protect his image as a president proud to be tough on terror; he'll keep sacrificing American lives to bolster his fantasies, his belief that America has the God-given right to bully any other country into submission.
Nobody will ever again accuse George W. Bush of being a decent man.
Dubya has a made up war to fight, so the distraction caused by the monumental human tragedy in the deep, dark south has to wait in line for his attention. How is the Leader of the Free World supposed to find the money, time and expertise to keep New Orleans from sinking when he is busy trying to ensure that not a single building is left standing in Iraq?
What's a good old boy to do? He tells the National Guard they should "Shoot to Kill" if they see blacks looting. Whites finding goods and taking them away are fine, though.
Having all but decimated the agencies whose very reason for existence was to act in emergency situations such as the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in order to funnel money into his "War on Terror", Dubya has totally forsaken his duty to protect his own citizens from harm. Ask any of the displaced, sick, hungry and frightened thousands of victims of this natural disaster about terror. They don't need to worry about the twin bogeymen of weapons of mass destruction and an oil shortage, mass destruction has been visited upon them by Mother Nature, the terrors they face are real: starvation, sickness, death.
Days after the devastation in New Orleans and surrounding areas, the neediest, poorest and most vulnerable citizens were left to watch their lives disintegrate before their eyes. Had these Americans ever felt they mattered, they were disabused of the notion that Uncle Sam gives a tinker's damn about the poor relations.
The United States of America will never be the same. After September 11, 2001, when Americans showed courage in tragic circumstances, proving they were good neighbors, they could come together in a crisis, they did take care of their own, and the world saw Americans as human beings with the capacity to show compassion and empathy. Even Dubya looked like a decent man. Now the world sees those same Americans ignoring the immense suffering of an entire city, blaming the people of New Orleans for not being prepared, hemming and hawing over aid, rescue missions and providing relief. Instead of acting like a strong leader, Dubya is showing his true colours, he's protecting his interests, and he's basically told Louisianans that they are on their own. He's got bigger fish to fry. He was handed the opportunity to do the right thing, and he failed. He'll leave American soldiers in Iraq, where they have systematically destroyed a country that was already weakened from years of living under in a brutal dictatorship. He'll continue to spend obscene amounts of money to annihilate a culture he views as substandard. He'll fight to the bloody end to protect his image as a president proud to be tough on terror; he'll keep sacrificing American lives to bolster his fantasies, his belief that America has the God-given right to bully any other country into submission.
Nobody will ever again accuse George W. Bush of being a decent man.
posted by Alphamutt at 10:32 PM
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