Well, motherfuckers, and that means you, fat ass Goldberg and your
master, Rich Lowry, PNAC Bitch Beinart, the racist wannabe white Malkin
and the little fucktards at LGF, Bareback Andy and "Diversity"
Instacracker, all you backstabbing, fag hating uncle tom ministers, you
can see Dear Leader in action. America's largest port is gone, maybe
forever, gas is $5+ a gallon and FEMA is coming. Whores come faster
with old men than FEMA is getting to NOLA.
How did your wartime President react? Like Chiang Kai-Shek when the Yellow River flooded in 1944, with corrupt indifference.
Bush, the man your fever dreams built into the next Winston Churchill
when he is really the live action Chauncey Gardiner, has failed to
everyone, in plain sight, without question. Rick Perry is trying to
save his ass, but it ain't working. NOLA looks like ANGOLA and that
ain't flying.
Say 9/11 changed everything now, motherfuckers. Ooops, 9/11, 9/11.
9/11. Doesn't work anymore? Gee, maybe the sea of alligator MRE's once
known as the citizens of New Orleans has something to do with that. Now
you can shut the fuck up about 9/11. Bush just proved what would happen
with another 9/11. Dead Americans as far as the nose can smell.
Basically, Shepard Smith has been stuck on the I-10 overpass near the
Convention Center. People have been dying, no one has been rescued,
and there's no aid given. There is, however, and outpost manned by the
military that turns back any person wanting to take the only was out of
New rleans they can access. They are leaving these people to die
inside the city.
So Hannity went to Geraldo, to see if he was going to be a ray of sunshine.
Geraldo was even more grim. He said that no one has been rescued from
the Convention Center, no one is being allowed to leave. He grabbed
babies from women and stuck their faces in the camera - honestly, it
kind of reminded me of Ethiopa in the 80s (the babies weren't that
emaciated, of course, but I'm referring to the situation in general) -
in a desperate plea for people to see the reality of what in going on
there. He said that people can't change their clothes, babies' diapers
can't get changed, people don't have anywhere to go to the bathroom.
Hannity blurbled something, and Geraldo basically just yelled,"Let these people walk! Let them get the hell away from this!"
So Hannity tried Shep, and tried to get him to talk "with some
perspective" on how great the National Guard coming into NO had been
today. Shep said, "Perspective? This is all the perspective you need!
People are dying here!"
It was incredible. And so horribly, horribly frustrating. But I
figured kudos to Geraldo and Shep, and thank god this was on FOX.
Maybe someonewatching this will wake the fuck up about the state of the government in this country.
"Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war.
"There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and
rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana
National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol
against looting.
"The situation is the same in Mississippi.
"The National Guard and helicopters are off on a fool's mission in Iraq.
"The National Guard is in Iraq because fanatical neoconservatives in
the Bush administration were determined to invade the Middle East and
because incompetent Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld refused to listen to
the generals, who told him there were not enough regular troops
available to do the job.
"After the invasion, the arrogant Rumsfeld found out that the
generals were right. The National Guard was called up to fill in the
gaping gaps.
"Now the Guardsmen, trapped in the Iraqi quagmire, are watching on
TV the families they left behind trapped by rising waters and wondering
if the floating bodies are family members. None know where their
dislocated families are, but, shades of Fallujah, they do see their
destroyed homes.
"The mayor of New Orleans was counting on helicopters to put in
place massive sandbags to repair the levee. However, someone called the
few helicopters away to rescue people from rooftops. The rising water
overwhelmed the massive pumping stations, and New Orleans disappeared
under deep water.
"What a terrible casualty of the Iraqi
war – one of our oldest and most beautiful cities, a famous
city, a historic city."
"It didn't have to be this bad. The entire city of New Orleans
needed have been lost. Hundreds of people need not have perished. Yet,
it now seems clear that the Bush administration sacrificed New Orleans
to pursue its mad war on Iraq."
Driftglass show us how
New Orleans now is "the poster child" for the GOP Owership
Society". A tinder-dry world where every uptick of the price of
oil and every flap of every bird's wing strikes ominous sparks, and yet
the fire extinguishers have all been hocked by you idiots for a few
hundred bucks in tax cuts. Read the whole thing.
No, this is the time for politics, none better, because I can tell that a lot of people in this
country are shocked and sobered by New Orleans, but they're also
worried and pissed off. They're making the connection between the
money, manpower, and resources expended in Iraq and how raggedy-ass the
rescue effort has been in the Gulf. If you don't say it now when
people's nerves are raw and they're paying full attention, it'll be too
late once the waters receded and the media-emoting "healing process"
begins.
