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diabhal Donating Member (48 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 04:17 AM
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UK Guardian: Katrina comes home to roost
President Bush is to blame for the scale of the disaster as a result of his administration's policies and actions

By Sidney Blumenthal


Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, the storm has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter, and hundreds reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina may not entirely be the result of an act of nature......

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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 04:26 AM
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1. I heard Sidney Blumenthal interviewed on BBC Worldwide News
...early this morning and he said that the Bush Administration will fall as the result of gross negligence on the matter of failures during the past 56 months to fund and support hurricane protection measures for New Orleans ports and area that were recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers and instead choose to channel some $80 million directly to the Iraq War.
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DemInDistress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-02-05 04:30 AM
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2. The U.K. Guardian story was "spot on"
Editors at that paper obviously doesn't "dance to the music" by,The
Bush Crime Family..their courageous while America's main stream media
remains silent on this UK story...Thanks for posting it..
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