BUSH UNPLUGGED Thanks to Bob Cesca on "The Huffington Post"
So I'm watching CNN this morning as the announcement comes from FEMA of their suspension of New Orleans rescue operations. Reason: It's too dangerous for the rescuers. Huh? What?
Meanwhile, in the Super Dome, a woman in a wheelchair, wrapped in a blanket, waits motionless for help. It's too late. She's dead. Others have died there, many are in danger of dying if help doesn't come soon. Bodies are piling up at the convention center.
People without food and water are saying things like "In Baghdad they at least drop food and water into the stranded, injured and dying."
Where the fuck's the army? Where's the Guard? (A hundred are in the area...."waiting to be deployed"! Huh? What?) Why are dying people too risky for FEMA rescuers to attempt evacuating/saving? Isn't that FEMA's fucking job?
Are we witnessing total incompetence, or worse? Is this some form of subconcious genocide? Is that too outrageous to ask for Christ's sake? If you think so, then why the fuck aren't people at the very least getting water and food dropped in there until they can be rescued? Huh?
I'm sick and tired of hearing Scott McClellan tell me Bush is having lunch with Alan Greenspan to discuss the economic impact of nation's greatest natural disaster; of telling me Laura and Bush will be making a contribution to aid the disaster later this afternoon; or descriptions of what the president saw on his flyover of the area yesterday; of McClellan telling us they won't tolerate looting, while there is no evidence of attempts to control it. I'm sick of McClellan refusing to answer the tough questions by dismissing them as being "political".
How in the fuck is it we can see the reports of the press that can go INSIDE the death zone, but soldiers, the guard, FEMA, and police are mysteriously absent? Has all our manpower been committed to Bush's Iraq folly? Exactly what the fuck is the government doing? Or, when can starving people expect the government to start doing?
2 comments:
No, I don't think it's outrageous to ask at all-I've been wondering as well.
The way victims are being depicted by the media is disturbing-CNN is running a headline at the website declaring "Anarchy." The headline implies that is the fault of the poor desperate people dying left and right-not the government they expected to be there in a disaster.
Are we really expected to believe that National Guard troops and FEMA personnel are too frightened to go in? All this emphasis by the media on looting is telling-they can send troops to protect property but not to save lives?
But people trying to get food water and maybe a change of clothes by looting-that's lawlessness?!
Very screwed up.
C'mon. It's too dangerous risk those troops on the poor in New Orleans. Bush has to keep them safe so they can do their rotations in Iraq!
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