Bush links September 11 to 'challenge' posed by Katrina

[emad]

Bush links September 11 to 'challenge' posed by Katrina
By Andrew Buncombe
Published: 10 September 2005


President George Bush has linked the 9/11 attacks to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, saying the US was able to "overcome any challenge". Days before the fourth anniversary of the terror attacks on New York and Washington, Mr Bush declared: "America is a strong and resilient nation." At the swearing-in-ceremony for Karen Hughes, his new senior official for "public diplomacy", Mr Bush said 100 countries had offered assistance to help hurricane victims. He said there had been a "a similar outpouring of support when another tragedy struck our nation", the 2001 suicide hijack attacks.

He added: "Our people have the spirit, the resources and the determination to overcome any challenge."

Officials said his speech would be the first of several steps the White House would take to try to intertwine the so-called war on terror with the effort to recover from the hurricane. The Bush administration has been widely criticised for failing to respond quickly enough to help the victims of Katrina.

This weekend Mr Bush is to travel to Mississippi and Louisiana, spending tomorrow and Monday talking to storm victims and examining response efforts. His radio address today is also expected to focus on Katrina and the 9/11 anniversary.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article311533.ece


New Orleans: the new Ground Zero????

[ComerPerro]

1. You knew this was coming

[bullimiami]

2. Ill link them one better for you you evil bastard.

You knew they were both coming and you sold your country for politics and power and let your people die.

[ima_sinnic]

3. keep talkin George, we never stop hearing about what a

Miserable Failure you are.

If he wasn't so dangerous, he might actually be funny.

[meg]

4. So people can look at his pre and post 9/11 actions and

see he was the same doufus his was for Katrina. Yup. Good idea.

[MichiganVote]

5. Were dead bodies left on the streets of NY or Fla. for over week and half?

[emad]

6. True, but no one ever published details of what - if any - charred

remains/body parts were found in the rubble after 9/11 because it's still officially classified information.

[MichiganVote]

19. And that is the second chapter of the same book called republican

[robbedvoter]

7. 2 occasions when his incompetence caused the death of thousands

I see them connected too. The whitewashing will be similar too. Will they succeed in making Katrina an asset to W? Trying hard. Time will tell.

[calimary]

12. Three, actually. Don't forget Iraq.

THREE occasions, george. THREE. Three strikes and YOU'RE OUT!!!

And, sweetie, you DO at least understand baseball, don't you?

[flamin lib]

8. How long will it take him to piss away the good will of all those

offering support?

[JDPriestly]

9. Divide and conquer

That has been Bush's motto. He won (assuming he did win) the 2004 election by dividing us, not by uniting us. Now he is reaping the firestorm. He had the devotion of the fanatics who agree with his view on the divisive issues he ran on, but he completely alienated himself from the rest of, who may actually constitute a majority. He lost our trust. He will never regain it. He walks like a manipulating tyrant; he lies like a manipulating tyrant; you take it from there.

Mr. Bush. You have failed big time. Please resign and take your minions, Rove, Hughes, Rice, Rumsfeld, Chertoff, Brown, et al. with you. Oh, and don't forget to take the whole stinking Republican philosophy with you.

[Vickers]

10. One of my nuts hangs lower than the other...could it be 9/11 related?

:shrug:

[are_we_united_yet]

11. Next state of the Union address:

"The British Government has learned that Al-Quaeda has developed a devestating hurricane machine, threatening the US."

:eyes:

[calimary]

14. And don't forget those hurricane-related program activities.

ASSHOLE!!!!!!!!!!

FUCK YOU, bush.

Or maybe it would be better to say "UNFUCK YOU, bush!"

As in - I hope you NEVER get another piece of satisfaction for the rest of your life. I hope Viagra doesn't even help you.

I wish him even a fraction of the misery that ANY of his victims, either those like Casey Sheehan, or countless innocent Iraqis, or those like the bodies floating in the flooded streets of New Orleans, or the evacuees stranded for days without food or water or sanitation or rescue in the Convention Center, or any of those from whom he's yanked the social safety net because it was more important to squander our money on tax cuts for the rich and a war of lies - I wish THEIR misery on HIM.

Please God, let him get a good, strong taste of his own medicine. Let him FINALLY see what it's like to be completely and totally and hopelessly screwed.

Time you paid, george. HIGH time you paid. LONG PAST time you paid.

[are_we_united_yet]

16. "hurricane-related program activities..."

Goddamn. I busted a gut on that one!

:rofl:

[Mz Pip]

13. 9/11 always works for him

It doesn't surprise me that he would evoke it again. THere are enough people in this country who behave like Pavlov's salivating dogs at the mention of 9/11. The conditioned response is to approve of whatever it is Bush is doing at the moment. Karl Rove must have studied Skinner in college. He's knows how to get the desired response from the sheeple.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[kbm8795]

15. He STILL doesn't GET it, does he?

The American PEOPLE have no doubt that we can see a situation through. . .but what we know after the performance of the Bush Administration last week, is that our President isn't capable of doing the same. He is making himself look even more ridiculous attempting to link himself to leadership of a crisis when he was absent and bickering over power.

[Clarkie1]

17. They are, indeed, linked in one way.

They both demonstrate miserable failures of leadership at the highest levels of government.

"With respect to Iraq, "stay the course" is only a slogan, not a strategy. What is our strategy for success in Iraq? Where is the leadership?

The president's own Republican party just passed an energy bill which has absolutely no effect on gas prices for now or the forseeable future, and moves us no further along the path to energy independence. Where is the leadership?

Every day American technology and manufacturing skills are sent abroad, along with American jobs. Where is the leadership?

...there was at least 36 hours notice that a major hurricane was going to hit the Gulf Coast, including likely a devastating blow to New Orleans, which certainly came to pass. The President continued with his regular schedule on Monday and Tuesday in California, Arizona, and Texas to hold some staged Medicare events and enjoy more vacation time, while finally returning to the White House yesterday. The joint task force including National Guard set up by the Pentagon failed to be on the scene in New Orleans in a timely manner to stop the looting and assist in the evacuation. Where is the leadership?

...the President claimed that no one could have anticipated the levee breaches we've seen in New Orleans after Katrina hit. That's not leadership, that's an excuse. In fact, people have predicted this kind of disaster for many years, including President Bush's own FEMA in 2001, when they ranked hurricane flood damage to New Orleans among the three likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing America. Instead, funding was significantly cut back, leaving key engineering projects on hold. Instead, this Administration focused on the war in Iraq, tax cuts, and private sector economic growth without asking the American people to make needed sacrifices for the good of the country. Again I ask you, where is the leadership?

You've got to keep asking that question. What I learned about leadership is that you have to give people challenging goals and work with them and inspire them to reach them. You've got to have the courage to set goals and make a difference.

Leadership for America starts with the leader's vision of where you want the country to be. And that's the problem we have in America today. We need visionary leaders who can see the promise and potential of our country and take us there. We can find those leaders again -- and we must."

Wes Clark

http://securingamerica.com/node/242

[globalvillage]

18. Bill Maher was right. Time for bush* to quit.

Another interpretation of the three strikes yer out rule:

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it.
W. C. Fields