NG no match for disaster, Bush sends marines as flood fury grows

[EastofEdon]

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1562429,00.html

Bush sends marines as flood fury grows

· 20,000 still trapped in burning city
· We let citizens down, admits President

Julian Borger and Jamie Doward in Baton Rouge
Sunday September 4, 2005
The Observer


President George Bush ordered an extra 17,000 troops - including 7,000 elite airborne troops and marines - into New Orleans and the devastated Gulf Coast yesterday to try to bolster the stumbling flood relief effort and salvage the reputation of his presidency.

The order was announced after it became clear that National Guard troops sent into the city on Friday were no match for the scale of the disaster unleashed by Hurricane Katrina and the consequent collapse of the levees around the city. Within two days the number of military personnel in the area is hoped to reach some 54,000 people.

As a full-scale rescue operation finally got under way and thousands of victims of the storm were ferried from the city by bus, plane and truck, the US military announced it would be deploying a further 10,000 National Guards.

The latest moves come as rescuers continued to find bodies across the city, and as victims of the disaster continued to die amid the horrible conditions. Although there has been no official estimate of the number of dead, some fear it could top 10,000 in Louisiana alone.

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[MadeinOhio]

1. Good the Guardian tells it like it is.....Bush does not care about them.

He's doing it all to try to save his burning, destroyed political image. :mad:

That's his biggest weakness....Big Oil politics. He can watch people die but he can't STAND to watch his image die!!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

We should help it along, and ensure his image is forever stained and destroyed. That way he WILL be beat, and he WILL resign. :crazy:

The others, we'll have to round up with arrests...

[EastofEdon]

2. but he said he understood

the frustration of dying people. :-(

[MadeinOhio]

4. Yeah, he does. The frustration of his own rich dying people....

If they are his cronies, that is and include the words Black Oil. :rofl: :rofl: :P


Everyone should tar and feather this bastard until he can't even be tarred anymore, along with his GOP stooges. Their only weakness is the political image, that's all that matters.

[madrchsod]

3. i may have missed something but when did the

govenor approve of the use of federal troops in new orleans?

[MadeinOhio]

5. When Rumsfeld signed the forms and said this would save Bush image. n/t