In Shrub's America, no one can hear you scream....

[HysteryDiagnosis]

http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm?Page=Article&ID=4772

Doctors plead for help as hospitals run out of food, power(New Orleans)

Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.

"We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us," said Dr. Norman McSwain, chief of trauma surgery at Charity Hospital, the largest of two public hospitals.

Charity is across the street from Tulane University Medical Center, a private facility that has almost completed evacuating more than 1,000 patients and family members, he said.

No such public resources are available for Charity, which has about 250 patients, or University Hospital several blocks away, which has about 110 patients.

"We need coordinated help from the government," McSwain said.

He described horrific conditions.

"There is no food in Charity Hospital. They're eating fruit bowl punch and that's all they've got to eat. There's minimal water," McSwain said.

"Most of their power is out. Much of the hospital is dark. The ICU (intensive care unit) is on the 12th floor, so the physicians and nurses are having to walk up floors to see the patients."

[Kni7es]

1. "We'd help, really...

but you're just second-class citizens. We need to protect out intrests in washington."

-Unspoken, but implied.

[Yoda Yada]

2. Potential Bumper Sticker?

IN BUSH'S AMERICA...no one can hear you scream.

(idea from 4MoronicYears)


ANOTHER SUGGESTION: I have no idea how to do this, but....I'd like to see these two pictures side-by-side. Picture #1 with Bush looking out the airplane window with just "9-11" written underneath. Picture #2 with Bush looking out the airplane window with just "Hurricane Katrina" written underneath. Then place this question, in larger letters, stretching underneath both pictures... ...THIS IS LEADERSHIP?