As they Fish Bodies Out of the River, Bush Avoids Them
Writing by on Wednesday, 31 of August , 2005 at 6:09 am
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The leadership of George Bush is really showing itself right about now. New Orleans is in chaos, the town is being looted. Police are powerless to stop it because they are out gunned and out numbered. The Mayor of New Orleans is going to try to evacuate a flooded city because the levees that hold back the water have failed, so now another 15 feet of water is rushing into the city.
From the AP
“It’s downtown Baghdad,” said tourist Denise Bollinger, who snapped pictures of looting in the French Quarter. “It’s insane.”
The mayor estimated that 80 percent of New Orleans was flooded, while a countless number of residents were still stranded on rooftops.
Hospitals were running out of power and scrambling to find places to take their patients. At one clinic, broken glass littered some areas and patients and staff had fallen on floors slick with floodwaters.
“It’s like being in a Third World country,” said Mitch Handrich, a registered nurse manager at Charity Hospital, where nurses were ventilating patients by hand after the power and then the backup generator failed. Some 300 patients had yet to be evacuated, but the babies in intensive care had been flown out.
“We’re just trying to stay alive,” Handrich said.
So what was Bush doing while this is going on? Well who knows, yesterday he went to a photo-op in Arizona to pimp his Medicare drug plan, meanwhile back in New Orleans helicopters are plucking people off roof tops and people are fishing bodies out of the river.
Today he is going coming to Washington DC so he can
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Made Wednesday, 31 of August , 2005 at 8:07 am
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