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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:17 PM
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Blaming Bush (UK-Leader)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1561993,00.html

Hurricane Katrina has cruelly demonstrated the awesome power of nature and the havoc it can wreak on the proudest efforts of humankind. It has also exposed the United States government, and George Bush at the head of it, to charges of badly mishandling what looks like being one of the country's worst ever natural disasters. Unlike what happened after the September 11 terrorist attacks, partisan warfare has already broken out over the waterlogged catastrophe that is New Orleans and the battered coast of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama. This is a crisis in full spate - as shown by shocking images of bodies floating in putrid water and desperate refugees scrabbling to catch supplies dropped by helicopter. America is the richest and most powerful country on earth. But its citizens, begging for food, water and help, are suffering agonies more familiar from Sudan and Niger. The worst of the third world has come to the Big Easy.

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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:20 PM
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1. Thanks Shrub, for making America look like sh*t in the eyes of
the World...AGAIN!
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:26 PM
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2. Hey, be fair: Dubya's not making the U.S. LOOk like s___ --
he's doing his best to make it INTO s___.
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ignatius 2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-03-05 12:35 PM
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3. You know, I have been saying for years that our country IS BECOMING
a third world country. As more and more middle class jobs are gone the abyss between the haves and have nots is growing and will reach a point when we are a third world country with the wealthy living behind iron gates and hiring armed guards living in constant fear of a rebellion by the impoverished.

New Orleans is the beginning and it is a fucking shame that congress and the chimp doesn't do a damned thing to stop cheap ass imports from coming in and our middle class jobs from going out. I don't think it is too late yet, but it is definitely reaching that point.

Greed,greed and more greed by those in charge is destroying our once great nation.
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