CNN: "We advise people that this city has been destroyed. It has been ...

[understandinglife]

... completely destroyed."



Deputy Police Chief Warren Riley says there's no reason for people to stay in New Orleans.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/05/katrina.new.orleans/index.html

Let me make this simple.

I call on every Representative of us, the People of the United States of America, to demand Bush and Cheney resign on September 6, 2005.

Any member of Congress not making that demand by tomorrow, irrespective of party, is a willful participant in aiding and abetting the two individuals who are responsible for the colossal destruction of the infrastructure of the United States of America.

The culmination of their coordinated indifference and willful neglect of the protective infrastructure of New Orleans and the appropriate actions to protect the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, is now fully visible to all.

The whole world is not merely watching, they've made it clear they know exactly who are responsible.

We do not need to await leaked minutes or whistle blowers or any form of insider information. We have all the facts we need to demand the immediate resignation and subsequent retribution by Bush, Cheney and many of their minions.

We The People ... must demand our representatives act or they should resign, immediately as well.

We The People ... must insist 'zero tolerance' for any government official who does not meet their Constitutional duty to us, their employer. It is time to begin being citizens and hold those whom work for us fully accountable.

I demand Bush and Cheney resign immediately. Who's with me?


Peace.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. Here is the thread you need to join

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=22507&mesg_id=22507

------------------------------------------------------
Save the Gulf, then save the nation!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

[understandinglife]

9. I support those efforts but they are not the message I intend to deliver.

If DU Activist Group decide to demand Bush and Cheney resign, tomorrow, and demand that every member of Congress either support that demand or assume the status of Bush/Cheney anti-American collaborator, then I will give that effort my total support.

I want those whom work for us to demand the immediate resignation of the two executives responsible for this vast catastrophe. Anything short of that is meaningless. These two guys would already have been fired from any corporation in the world for a tiny fraction of what they have done to this country.

They must resign immediately.

Thank you for the reference link. I'm just committed to a different message.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

102. Seattle Times: "Official says feds warned of storm's potential"

Official says feds warned of storm's potential

By MARK SCHLEIFSTEIN
Newhouse News Service

September 5, 2005

BATON ROUGE, La. — Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center, said yesterday that officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Department of Homeland Security — including FEMA Director Mike Brown and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff — listened in on electronic briefings given by his staff before Hurricane Katrina slammed Louisiana and Mississippi and were advised of the storm's potential deadly effects.

Mayfield said the strength of the storm and the potential disaster it could bring were made clear during the briefings and in formal advisories, which warned of a storm surge capable of overtopping levees in New Orleans and winds strong enough to blow out windows of high-rise buildings. He said the briefings included information on expected wind speed, storm surge, rainfall and the potential for tornadoes to accompany the storm as it came ashore.

"We were briefing them way before landfall," Mayfield said. "It's not like this was a surprise. ... I keep looking back to see if there was anything else we could have done, and I just don't know what it would be," he said.

More at the link:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2002472774&zsection_id=2002107549&slug=mayfield05&date=20050905

Willful disregard for the warnings by every person who reports to Bush and Cheney and by Bush and Cheney, themselves.

Massive criminal negligence.

Force their resignations.

No more facts need be assembled.

Time to act.

Peace.

[chicagiana]

111. Impeachment election ...

The people should choose. Make the 2006 election ALL ABOUT Bush and his disastrous policies. The Dems should support a national campaign of candidates who pledge to impeach Bush (our "contract with America").

Force the Pukes to attach themselves to Bush when they will DESPERATELY want to distance themselves from him.

The Pukes were calling for Clinton's impeachment from YEAR 1 with a couple of dozen stupid little silly things. They FINALLY caught on something that remotely was a "crime".

Bush has willfully neglected his duties and DIRECTLY caused the deaths of THOUSANDS of American citizens. The Bush administration is guilty of RECKLESS HOMICIDE and MANSLAUGHTER!!!! They with-held aid from Louisiana because the Governor and mayor refused to surrender their jurisdiction and responsibility for their states. They stood up to a blackmail attempt at instituting federal martial law in the United States. Bush allowed THOUSANDS to die in retaliation.

If Bush will do this to New Orleans ... what about Los Angeles, Chicago, or any other metro with Democratic leadership??? Is this country safe from any threat, terrorist or natural, with this madman at the helm??? Can Bush be considered a responsible leader when he makes important politcal appointments to his chief of staffs COLLEGE ROOMATE!!! It's like we made fucking DARK HELMET president!!!

[johnfunk]

2. Destroyed by our Mardi Gras, Laissez-Faire Preznit's Inaction

[Bluebear]

3. I am. nt

[brettdale]

4. KICK LIKE I HAVE NEVER KICKED BEFORE

KICK LIKE I HAVE NEVER KICKED BEFORE

[Bluebear]

7. NOMINATED LIKE I NEVER HAVE BEFORE!

[AuntiBush]

73. AGREED LIKE NEVER, EVER BEFORE!

Super-Kicked, and Seriously Nominated NOW!

[Totally Committed]

5. That is so sad... New Orleans, "Completely destroyed..."

I never thought I'd live to see the day things would be this bad in America. I'm not even sure I'm glad I have.

My heart just goes out to all these poor people, who have lost everything, and now... even their home.

All good thoughts and love to the people of New Orleans,

TC

[rosesaylavee]

6. Count me in. Nominated n/t

[anarchy1999]

8. We're in, but we have been for a long while.

Please see my posts on the Vets for Peace in Covington.

If that doesn't motivate you to demand removal, I just don't know what will. Mr A has already given up on the US, I'm not quite there yet.

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Let the Repug land grab begin

That's what this phase is about.

That is all they are after is these people's land. At this point, it should be up to the individual and their circumstance whether or not they should stay or go. Not the government.

[FreedomAngel82]

86. Yes

Remember that law that was passed earlier this year? The one where the government can take your land? Bingo. Apparently Halliburton got a contract on 9/2.... Work fast don't they?

[chicagiana]

112. I haven't heard a single word from the Pukes ...

I haven't heard a single word from the Pukes about mortage relief for the refugees. This is one of the MOST PROFOUND ways that Congress can help. Shield people from mortgage payments for a period of time. Protect citizens against an insuing land grab in which they will loose not only their house, but their CREDIT as well.

No, the more important task is going straight into the John Roberts hearings and permanent repeal of the estate tax which won't affect another American until 2010.

And of course, Rick Santorum wants to legislation to punish people who don't leave disaster zones irregardless of whether they have transportation.

These fucking Nazis make me sick :puke:

[kitkat65]

11. Already wrote my "leaders" last week before their emergency session. n/t

[AuntiBush]

74. I Called my Senators Friday & Will Call Again This Week, too!

I'm done!

Edited to add: Done with this administration. WORSE leadership EVER!

[Desertrose]

12. Kick!

[MadeinOhio]

13. Nominated big time! Hell shit yes it must!

The city was completely utterly destroyed. :grr:

[understandinglife]

14. DU Activist Group request:

Simply.

Please, Skinner et al., launch a DU Activist Group effort to demand Bush and Cheney resign, immediately, and demand that every member of Congress either support that or join the status of being a Bush/Cheney anti-American collaborator.

Everything else is secondary.

If 'We The People' do not make it absolutely clear that each and every person in OUR government works for us and that we will hold them immediately accountable, we have no Republic.

It is for us to hold these individuals accountable. They work for US. We pay them their salaries.

It is that simple.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

17. Read these words by Larry Johnson for simple context:

A friend of mine experienced with crisis response was completely puzzled why Federal and State authorities did not seize and sink barges in the openings. That is an expedient solution to a levee collapse.

The inept response to this disaster is an ominous harbinger of things to come if terrorists hit us with the big one. Ignore for a moment that fact that this scenario in New Orleans had been identified as a potential threat we should prepare for. We should recognize that a terrorist armed with a nuclear weapon could not inflict the physical damage that the hurricane caused. Although a surprise terrorist strike could cause more casualties, only a sustained aerial bombardment could match the force and fury of Mother Nature.

The crisis response to a hurricane is the same as a response to a terrorist attack. Restoration of services, remediation, and humanitarian help are the same regardless of whether it is man made or nature made. The biggest problems in any response are always the same -- chain of command (i.e., figuring out who is in charge) and communication. It is inexcusable for the Bush Administration officials to claim they had no way of anticipating this disaster or planning for it. At least they've been consistent. We now know that the failure to plan for the aftermath in Iraq was but a precursor of things to come at home.

Link:

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/09/katrina_as_a_te.html

The call for Bush and Cheney to resign, immediately, is NOT a partisan issue.

The call for those whom represent us to join in that call is definitely not partisan -- the call is to EVERY Member of Congress.

The reality of New Orleans is the reality that "We The People" have no excuses -- we either demand resignation, accountability, and justice before the law or we fail in our duty as citizens to our Constitution.


Peace.

[ima_sinnic]

59. I'm in

It is exactly the way I've been feeling and now I am going to go write . . . (hard to tear myself off the board, though :) )

[understandinglife]

63. Request posted at DU Activist HQ:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x22688


Peace.

[smirkymonkey]

15. New Orleans was really the only place in the US that I wanted to

visit (that I haven't visited already.) Although it pales in comparison to the real tragedy suffered by real people, the loss of the city, it's unique place in American culture and what it represents to people is a very sad prospect.

[Melissa G]

16. To These Jerks... as the Donald would say 'You're FIRED!!!!'

INCOMPETENT IDIOTS!!!:mad:

[GeorgeBushytail]

18. Help Build Camp Katrina on The Mall

Imagine 50,000 Katrina survivors camped on Bush's doorstep. In the seat of government and power. Demanding answers and change.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4629758

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=2059147

Response from DUers from Mississippi and Louisiana has been enthusiastic so far.

[gumby]

81. Well, then the new incarnation of MacArthur

would come along and burn them out and run them out of town.

Later, that person would rise in the military and become "great."

[SaintLouisBlues]

19. Completely destroyed?

City's Rich Culture Proves Lucky Too
Fortunately situated on higher ground, many of New Orleans' most famous landmarks appear as if they will weather the storm.

By Richard Fausset, Times Staff Writer

NEW ORLEANS — The worst storm to ever strike this old city has spared its most famous picture-postcard icons — the French Quarter, the Garden District and the graceful, mansion-lined thoroughfare of St. Charles Avenue.

But although great swaths of these storied neighborhoods are unflooded, they have become eerie and sometimes menacing no man's lands. The vegetable bins of the French Market — usually open every day of the year — are bare. The grand oaks that canopied the genteel Garden District neighborhood are trashed, their big twisted branches blocking the streets.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dryrun5sep05,0,4498269.story?coll=la-home-headlines

[understandinglife]

23. "Most of the streets are filled with stagnant, fetid waters streaked

.... iridescent oil and smelling of garbage, human waste and death.

Per link in OP.

My message is that those at fault must resign.

In my opinion, unless we force their resignation, the opportunity to restore and nurture the return of New Orleans will be compromised by the same corporate avarice and neoconster policies that enabled the destruction of NO, Iraq and "America."

With proper leadership, we can rebuild and nurture NO and America with the largest public works projects in the history of the Nation and use that process as a way to build not just physical infrastructure but the social and ethical infrastructure that the words of our Constitution are supposed to mean.

Thank you for the segment from the LA Times.


Peace.

[Karenina]

24. INDICT. IMPEACH. IMPRISON.

[TrogL]

110. ....and if that got into the buildings

and behind the walls that building is uninhabitable now and forever amen.

[hiley]

20. with you!

resign immediately bush and cheney

[Independent_Liberal]

21. Kick!

[liberal43110]

22. Join the protest on 9/24

Then please, please come to the protest in Washington DC on 9/24. It is an anti-war protest with a strong impeachment theme too. I imagine the past week will reinforce the impeachment theme too.

I can't take this anymore.

[understandinglife]

25. I want them out, tomorrow. And, have been fully supportive of the ...

... Sept 24-26 endeavors from the outset.

It's just that what has happened (and didn't happen) in the past 12 days is more than ample reason for us to force Bush and Cheney out, now.

And, more than ample reason to inform our representatives that if they want to work for us and keep collecting their salaries their first order of business is to assemble at the White House on September 6, 2005 and demand that Bush and Cheney resign, immediately.

Peace.

[Ouabache]

33. We need marchers on Washington who don't leave until Bush does !!

We need a constant presence starting asap, it needs to be HUGE, and it needs to REMAIN IN PLACE until they are GONE FROM THE OFFICES THEY HAVE BEEN DERELICT AND NEGLIGENT IN. Shut it down I say. Shut the fucker down until they are gone.

write, demand,protest, march, organize raise hell, slow down, strike, shut down.

Do this where we are. Do this in Washington. Do it in shifts. But do it we must. the time is now.

THESE FUCKERS HAVE TO GO. One WAY OR ANOTHER. THEY HAVE TO BE GONE.

[puebloknot]

26. I'm with you

I have already decided to make a phone call to every member of Congress, no matter that it may take me days, to demand that Bush/Cheney, et al. be removed from office.

"Resignation" sounds voluntary, but Nixon resigned under pressure, and pressure is what it will take from all of us. UNRELENTING PRESSURE, at that.

We don't need to spend time and money on impeachment, even if we could get it to happen. These criminals need to go NOW.

[understandinglife]

28. "We don't need to spend time and money on impeachment .." Correct.

We need them to resign and we need every dollar we have to begin a major public works project (not another greed-grab by Halliburton) to rebuild New Orleans and to begin planning the restitution we will necessarily have to commit to the people of Iraq - among other acts of retribution America will need to deliver as a way of showing the world that 'We The People' really do stand for truth, justice and hope.


Peace.

[cynatnite]

27. I'm with you!

They need to be gone and NOW!

[CountAllVotes]

29. no choice

but to destroy the disease ridden toxic pit that took about 1 week to evolve.

[rateyes]

30. kick.

Along with the cabinet, Dennis Hastert and Ted Stevens--we don't need those incompetents in the seat of leadership either.

[hiley]

32. I agree with that as well

rateyes, they are inconsiderate, incompetent fools!

[rateyes]

36. I just e-mailed my representative with the message..

I await his response. Though, being a DINO, I doubt that he will do anything. It has to be "WE THE PEOPLE." Because, they the politicians are, most of them, cowards.

[Straight Shooter]

31. I've had some grief-stricken times in my life.

The destruction of New Orleans has just about hit the number 1 spot. :cry:

[flyarm]

34. ahhh i am crying...thank you UL...i believe someone ( clinton?)

is helping the good governor hold on by a shoe string from these sob's...dewitt has been by her side ..she did not give in today...and she must have someone powerful by her side..
* suspended Posse Comitatus sunday morning..thinking he could federalize the state of Lousianna..she held tough..and she is my hero..but someone strong had to be advising her...did clinton put himself on the inside to stop this?? i just wonder..especially after seeing his interview this afternoon...

we need to get all the congress to demand * resignation along with cheney , condi rumsfled..the who shittin caboodle of these pigs!

the* cabal planted lies about the governor in the washington post and newsweek..

the whole thing makes me sick...
and anything less than getting these bastards out now ..is not good enough!!

i join you UL!!

fly

[Patsy Stone]

35. I saw this press conference

and I thought the same thing.

I've been saying this for a few days now. As someone in another thread said so well, "Someone who loses two buildings and a major US city on his watch shouldn't make anymore decisions.

[meganmonkey]

37. I'm with you

I really am.

NGU!

[troubleinwinter]

38. We must

DEMAND immediate resignations through our representatives.

Any congress member who does not make this demand is complicit in the continuation of these crimes against our nation, our people and humanity.

If WE do not demand it of our congress, we are complicit as well.

[troubleinwinter]

39. And NOMINATE this page.

[wiggs]

40. I'm there. I like the "no BS" tone of your statement.

Soooooo tired of political speak where the edge is taken off, qualified, diluted, and couched.

I think demands like yours gain strength when this NO disaster is used to shed light on other disasters under Bush. Management of NO is just like mis-management of Iraq. Turning a deaf ear to hurricane warnings is like ignoring 9/11 warnings. Blaming/smearing others is also typical. Global warming may be a bigger face-plant for us than New Orleans, yet the administration still drags its feet.

This mismanagement is not isolated. Our government is filled with bad appointments such as Chertoff and Brown in every policy area.

I want your letter to get longer....one of our leaders needs to make the case as strongly as you do, incorporating 5 years' worth of outrages, crimes, and misplaced ideology.

Won't happen, but I'm with you.

[understandinglife]

43. "Won't happen, but I'm with you." Thank you for your strong support ...

...and, please join me in making it happen.

It's entirely up to us. We don't need anyone's permission.

It's our country.

We pay these people their salary and provide them the capital and the assets by which the secure debt.

Without each and everyone of us their toast in a week or less.

We can do it. Just make the calls and make it clear we know the facts and we intend to make changes in the management of OUR COUNTRY - with us or against us, is the decision each of those folk in Congress make, tomorrow.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

41. Calling all their offices starting at 8am EDT, September 6, 2005

Message simple: You work for us.

We want Bush and Cheney to resign immediately.

Go the White House and demand their resignation.

Anything less than that and you have failed in your duty to the Constitution and to each and every American citizen and you should resign.

Accoutability time.

Not in a month. Not after years of investigations into what all of us see in front of our eyes. Nope.

Accountability now.

Those whom remain after the necessary house-cleaning can work with us, the people, to assemble an interim executive management team and begin running this government in a responsible, creative, diligent and productive manner.

First order of business, beyond establishing a solid operations plan for restoring New Orleans and extracting all American soldiers and corporatists from Iraq -- equivalent access to vote to every citizen; full accounting that every vote is counted as it was intended by the voter. Goal: an honest election in 2006.


Peace.

[Im with Rosey]

42. I have sent as many emails

to as many representatives as I can think of. I have sent many emails to news organizations on a very regular basis. I have been telling everyone I know what they must do and why. Can anyone think of something I have missed? I would love to go sit in someone's, anyone's office until they give me their word this is what they will do, but I'm afraid it will take more than that...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

44. i damned it!

[DemReadingDU]

45. Accountability, Now!

[glitch]

46. Hear hear. Since we know Congress won't start impeachment,

We the People need to demand this entire administration's resignation.

[stevietheman]

47. Please write articles and LTTE's and letters to reps saying this! n/t

n/t

[IdaBriggs]

48. I demanded it last week. I put a home made sign on my car already.

I want them OUT.

[understandinglife]

49. Most excellent. And, please call your reps tomorrow morning and ...

.... explain to their staff exactly what you expect them to do before the sun sets on DC on September 6, 2005.

And, if you have time, call a bunch of the senior Republicans, as I have been doing since last Thursday, and explain to them that if they want anything to remain of their party, they best do what Goldwater and some of his colleagues did in August of 1974 -- take a stroll along Pennsylvania Ave to the White House and tell the President (and in this case the VP, as well) to resign.

Thank you for all you are doing.


Peace.

[MadeinOhio]

50. Keith Olbermann calling for Bush to resign. MSNBC rocks. n/t

The HEAT IS ON :grr:

[understandinglife]

53. Let's hope Crooks&Liars has the video clip up soon. Please post a link ...

...into this thread as soon as it is available.

I sent a copy of the OP to KO's office earlier this afternoon, and I suspect he's been getting the request to demand Bush's resignation from many. What matters is the guy has the courage and dedication to our Republic to DO IT!!


Peace.

[understandinglife]

57. Olbermann -- "The "city" of Louisiana"

The "city" of Louisiana (Keith Olbermann)

September 5, 2005

<clip>

For many of this country's citizens, the mantra has been — as we were taught in Social Studies it should always be — whether or not I voted for this President — he is still my President. I suspect anybody who had to give him that benefit of the doubt stopped doing so last week. I suspect a lot of his supporters, looking ahead to '08, are wondering how they can distance themselves from the two words which will define his government — our government — "New Orleans."

For him, it is a shame — in all senses of the word. A few changes of pronouns in there, and he might not have looked so much like a 21st Century Marie Antoinette. All that was needed was just a quick "I'm not satisfied with my government's response." Instead of hiding behind phrases like "no one could have forseen," had he only remembered Winston Churchill's quote from the 1930's. "The responsibility," of government, Churchill told the British Parliament "for the public safety is absolute and requires no mandate. It is in fact, the prime object for which governments come into existence."

In forgetting that, the current administration did not merely damage itself — it damaged our confidence in our ability to rely on whoever is in the White House.

As we emphasized to you here all last week, the realities of the region are such that New Orleans is going to be largely uninhabitable for a lot longer than anybody is yet willing to recognize. Lord knows when the last body will be found, or the last artifact of the levee break, dug up. Could be next March. Could be 2100. By then, in the muck and toxic mire of New Orleans, they may even find our government's credibility.

More at the link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

Nothing to add except I demand that he and Cheney resign immediately and I demand that anyone claiming to represent the people of the USA make them resign, immediately.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

62. Link to Olbermann's statements:

http://media.putfile.com/OlbermannSwings


Peace.

[understandinglife]

51. Calling Mrs Nancy Reagan. Calling Mr John Eisenhower. Calling any ...

.... Republican of conscience -- CALL FOR BUSH AND CHENEY'S RESIGNATION, tomorrow.

If you care to have anything remaining of your Republican Party, just do it - press conferences, tele-conferences, calls to all the Senators and HR folk you know well and tell them to go to the White House and demand Bush and Cheney resign.

Note to all at DU -- if you have contact with senior Republicans, send them this message. I have sent a link to the thread to Ron Reagan and to other Republicans I know, in addition to having called several senior Republican Senators last week.

The willful destruction of the Republic, and NO specifically, require Americans to respond irrespective of their party affiliation.


Peace.

[chicagiana]

113. Calling Gerald Ford !!!!

Certainly this man of dignity couldn't abide by this ludicrous imcompetence.

I'm not sure about the whole "resignation" angle. That would pass the government into the hands of Dennis "we shouldn't rebuild New Orleans" Hastert. Pass on Hastert??? Go straight into a cabinet filled with Bush ass kissers and chronies, foremostly RICE AND RUMSFELD.

Run a national campaign in '06 to take back the house on a CONTRACT to IMPEACH the President and hold him accountable. Force the Senate to make a choice. If the Senate declines, the Republicans would be embarrased beyond all belief and get massacred at the polls (the same scenario that forced Senate Republicans to force Nixon's resignation). If the Senate removes Bush (and Cheney) Nancy Pilosi becomes president. Than in '08 the people can choose another rightful president.

[Webster Green]

52. Resignations NOW!

NOW!


Demand resignations! Now!

[cry baby]

54. I'm right beside you!

RESIGN, YOU BUFFOONS!!!!! NOW!!!!!

[BamaBecky]

55. Why the hell can't we just release the "held-up" Indictments?

Somebody is sitting on them thinking you can't indict a sitting President! I applaud Gov. Blanco!

Bama

[osaMABUSh]

56. See ya' all 9/24 in DC for the beginning of impeachment

[understandinglife]

58. If we all do our jobs, they will be gone long before Sept 24, 2005.

That's the mandate. That's the message.

Force them to resign, tomorrow. Do not stop until they do.

Hold every Member of Congress accountable for every hour Bush and Cheney have not resigned, clock running now.

That is our solemn duty to those who died in New Orleans, in Mississippi, in Iraq, and everywhere else this regime has tortured, murdered and plundered.


Peace.

[bleever]

60. Bush and Cheney must resign NOW. Not because it's the honorable

thing to do. Not to save their party. But because,

We Demand It.

[understandinglife]

61. Boston Phoenix: "America’s Nero"

America’s Nero

by STEPHEN MINDICH AND PETER KADZIS

Sunday, September 4, 2005

Disbelief. Horror. Outrage. Shame. Those are words, marks on paper. They are insufficient to capture the emotion and intellectual revulsion that arise from the national government’s incompetence and President Bush’s utter failure to take charge and lead in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina, the worst national disaster to savage the nation, devastating the Gulf coast and threatening to turn New Orleans, a historic and soulful city, into a 21st century Pompeii. Nero at least fiddled while Rome burned. As Katrina roared, Bush vacationed. (edit: and as it happens, he also strum'd the guitar)

Few Presidents are tested once as sorely as Bush, let alone twice. When terrorists simultaneously attacked the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon, Bush went into hiding. When the news first reached him of the New York attacks, he froze like a deer in on-coming headlights and continued reading to children in a Florida classroom. Commentators may praise his bravado days later when he appeared at Ground Zero and, bullhorn in hand, successfully rescued his compromised reputation. A nation in need of leadership and reassurance was forgiving and, in Hollywood fashion, rallied round. Today, the situation is different. No longer believing the lies and subsequent miscalculations that have mired us in the mind-numbing desolation called Iraq, Bush has no political capital with which to trade. Bush’s failure is America’s failure. We stand humbled before world opinion.

<clip>

The bill of indictments against Bush is exhaustive. But it is worth noting that at a time when we sorely need, help the Bush administration has done nothing to accept the offers of foreign help that have resulted - even from such unlikely places as France, Russia, China, and Cuba. Rather than demonstrate America’s self-confidence by accepting help from those who oppose our misguided Iraq adventure or even from Cuba, a poverty stricken nation we still inexplicably consider a threat, Bush demonstrates his narrow and ignorant vision by doing nothing.

Bush has, in effect, impeached his own credibility and legitimacy. His legacy is a dismal one. We can only hope that his opponents in Washington will capitalize on his now naked position by stopping him from doing any more damage.

Link:

http://www.bostonphoenix.com/boston/news_features/editorial/documents/04948106.asp

His opponents in Washington should be every single representative of We The People and, irrespective of what they decide to do tomorrow, We The People must stop Bush and Cheney from doing any more damage to America and the world -- NOW.


Peace.

[autorank]

64. Throw the bums out! This is fhe first time I could say that with 100%

proof. Bush and company are pathetic, they are liars, they are dangeroud to the nation.

Thank you for this and the 42 recommendations should show the on-target nature of your most elegant prose and argument.

[NinetySix]

65. Seconded.

The GOP and their toadies howled for Clinton's resignation all through the '90s for MUCH less than this.

Americans are dead. Some due to the storm itself, which is the fault of no one in the case of those who were unwilling to leave New Orleans. But the deaths of those unable to leave are indirectly on Bush's hands for his lack of effort to get them out. However, the deaths of those who drowned, starved, fell ill, or perished from the heat in the days following the aftermath of the storm are DIRECTLY on Bush's hands for his willful inaction and callous disregard for the survivors in declining help from abroad and even here at home.

Mr. President, if you have any decency at all, if you have even a shred of humanity in your heart, if you can feel even the slightest inkling of responsibility for a situation entirely your own fault, you will RESIGN IMMEDIATELY.

Perhaps history will be kinder to you if you do.

[Time for change]

66. I'm with you

I'll send my letters tomorrow.

[RogerARTcom]

67. WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS IT BECOMES NECESSARY for the PEOPLE

WHEN IN THE COURSE OF HUMAN EVENTS IT BECOMES NECESSARY

for the PEOPLE of the United States

TO ALTER or ABOLISH the United States Government

as it exists in the year 2001 / 02 / 03 / 04 / 05 / 06

Using the Authority, Law, and Intentions of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

And Now the People Step Forward

and Charge High Treason,

and Show that Democracy in its roots today, is Corrupt.

And that the Constitution has been Altered

and Betrayed in Favor of A Small Group of Millionaires,

Over Another...

the Governed, the People of the United States.

And that the Election Process is UN-fair

and has been Overwhelmed

and Monopolized by Millionaires

and their millions of dollars



Continued at www.RogerART.com



Scroll Down till You see Yellow link to ( Re-Written Declaration of Independence



Thank You, [e-mail]

[understandinglife]

75. Welcome to DU, RogerARTcom and thank you.

Peace.

[MadeinOhio]

92. Good neccesary reading.

[fooj]

68. It is our duty as Americans to protect and defend the Constitution.

We must ast NOW! America cannot afford to wait. A few quotes to inspire...


And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

Our country needs us now more than ever before. These evil, maniacal madmen are not fit to call themselves Americans. It is time to demand that the treasonous traitors resign and return the White House back to its people. Those murderous, rat bastards must go. Immediately.



We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. — Thomas Jefferson, American Declaration of Independence

[BigBearJohn]

69. 3000 killed on 911; 10000 DEAD IN NewOrleans, Near 2000 dead soldiers

HOW MANY MORE AMERICANS HAVE TO DIE
BOTH HERE AND ABROAD BEFORE WE OPEN OUR
EYES AND SAY ENOUGH, GOD DAMN IT, ENOUGH!!!

Even as I type this, they are bragging
about the "good news" of the levee being fixed
today. Let's just forget that one of the best
cities in the world has been destroyed because
of insane incompetence... what really matters
is the cute picture of Bush hugging some
little kid. There... now doesn't that make it all
better?

Sort of reminds of a battered housewife laying
bandaged in a hospital bed, when suddenly the
bastard husband walks in with flowers and
chocolates. "I won't do it again, honey."

[Bozita]

70. good thing "the adults are back in charge," eh?

[hiley]

71. BigBearJohn

Exactly!

[shireen]

72. resign now you criminal bastards n/t

[femrap]

76. Hey! Why can't we make a

'Citizen's Arrest????' I remember when I was high school, I was told in Civics class that if we saw a person committing a crime, we could make a 'Citizen's Arrest.' Well....what's stopping us? I can surely get some handcuffs...let's frog march the pieces of shit straight to jail!!!

[understandinglife]

77. Kristoff: "That's the larger hurricane of poverty that shames our land."

At the core of why Bush and Cheney must resign, immediately, is their devastating disregard and disdain for 'the least of us' -- those who live in poverty in the wealthiest nation in the world and, even worse, children who die because no one feeds them:

September 6, 2005

The Larger Shame

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

The wretchedness coming across our television screens from Louisiana has illuminated the way children sometimes pay with their lives, even in America, for being born to poor families.

It has also underscored the Bush administration's ongoing reluctance or ineptitude in helping the poorest Americans. The scenes in New Orleans reminded me of the suffering I saw after a similar storm killed 130,000 people in Bangladesh in 1991 - except that Bangladesh's government showed more urgency in trying to save its most vulnerable citizens.

But Hurricane Katrina also underscores a much larger problem: the growing number of Americans trapped in a never-ending cyclone of poverty. And while it may be too early to apportion blame definitively for the mishandling of the hurricane, even President Bush's own administration acknowledges that America's poverty is worsening on his watch.

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So the best monument to the catastrophe in New Orleans would be a serious national effort to address the poverty that afflicts the entire country. And in our shock and guilt, that might be politically feasible. Rich Lowry of The National Review, in defending Mr. Bush, offered an excellent suggestion: "a grand right-left bargain that includes greater attention to out-of-wedlock births from the Left in exchange for the Right's support for more urban spending." That would be the best legacy possible for Katrina. Otherwise, long after the horrors have left TV screens, about 50 of the 77 babies who die each day, on average, will die needlessly, because of poverty. That's the larger hurricane of poverty that shames our land.

More at the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/06/opinion/06kristof.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

Did you get that, everyone -- "... except that Bangladesh's government showed more urgency in trying to save its most vulnerable citizens."

OUT BUSH. OUT CHENEY. OUT NOW.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

79. And, while NO is destroyed and people die, Cheney looks for a mansion.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090401391.html

My fellow Americans, are you going to demand this guy resign, or not.

My fellow Americans, do you realize how totally criminal and pathological this behavior is.


OUT BUSH. OUT CHENEY. OUT NOW.

[understandinglife]

87. "22 bodies lashed together around a pole - a desperate, futile attempt ...

Posted on Mon, Sep. 05, 2005

New horrors discovered as search-and-recovery effort goes on

BY TOMMY TOMLINSON, LEE HILL KAVANAUGH AND MARTIN MERZER

Knight Ridder Newspapers

NEW ORLEANS - (KRT) - Ghastly new evidence of Hurricane Katrina's horror emerged Monday night when a sheriff reported the recovery of 22 bodies lashed together around a pole - a desperate, futile attempt to survive the storm.

Sheriff Jack Stephens of St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans, said rescuers found the bodies tied with rope and wrapped around a pole in the tiny village of Violet along the eastern bank of the Mississippi River.

The bodies were found soon after the storm in a flooded area of the village but still haven't been identified, he said. He said he believed they had tied themselves together, one by one, so they could escape the rising water.

<clip>

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/nation/12568090.htm

In America. In 2005.

We spend more than a trillion dollars designing and implementing ways to vaporize 'the enemy' and yet we cannot save our own.

BUSH OUT. CHENEY OUT. NOW


Peace.

[understandinglife]

104. Graff: "You want moral values? This government doesn't have them."

When The Saints Don't Go Marching In

E.J. Graff

September 06, 2005

You want moral values? This government doesn't have them. That lack is visible in the fetid Third-World swamp we've all been watching in horror. What we're watching is not the consequence of a corrupt government or even an incompetent government. It is the consequence of an immoral government.

Morals, in case Bush et al. have forgotten, grow from the central commandment to do unto others as we would have them do unto us. Caring for others in extreme distress is the most basic tenet of morality. Doing so requires a decision to act. Our federal government decided instead to abandon those in need.

Yes, decided. Bush’s government decided—in advance—not to protect an American city from an inevitable disaster, despite years of warnings from tediously fact-based sources. Our government decided—in advance—to cut the funding that the New Orleans Corps of Engineers had requested to forestall precisely this flood.

<clip>

It’s not just shock and shame that this can happen in America. This is genuine moral outrage, righteous indignation at how our fellow citizens have been failed. Don’t let that outrage fade into complacency. We have a moral responsibility to grab hold of our government and force it to serve its citizens once again.

Link:

http://www.tompaine.com/print/when_the_saints_dont_go_marching_in.php

As well stated as it ever needs to be.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

106. New Yorker: The White House - Under Water

THE WHITE HOUSE
UNDER WATER

by David Remnick

Issue of 2005-09-12
Posted 2005-09-03

One of the creepier vanities of most political leaders is the private yearning to be tested on a historical scale. Bill Clinton used to confide that, no matter what else he did as President, without a major war to fight he could never join the ranks of Lincoln and F.D.R. During the Presidential debates in 2000, George W. Bush informed his opponent, Al Gore, that natural catastrophes are “a time to test your mettle.” Bush had seen his father falter after a hurricane in South Florida. But now he has done far worse. Over five days last week, from the onset of the hurricane on the Gulf Coast on Monday morning to his belated visit to the region on Friday, Bush’s mettle was tested—and he failed in almost every respect.

<clip>

And yet, to a frightening degree, Bush’s faults of leadership and character were brought into high relief by the crisis. Suntanned and relaxed after a vacation so long that it would have shamed a French playboy, Bush reacted with fogged delinquency, as if he had been so lulled by his summer sojourn that he was not quite ready to acknowledge reality, let alone attempt to master it. His first view of the floods came, pitifully, theatrically, from the window of a low-flying Air Force One, and all the President could muster was, according to his press secretary, “It’s devastating. It’s got to be doubly devastating on the ground.” The moment demanded clarity of mind and rigorous governance, and yet he could not summon them. The performance skills Bush eventually mustered after September 11th—in his bullhorn speech at Ground Zero, in his first speech to Congress—eluded him. The whole conceit of his Presidency, that he was an instinctive chief executive backed by “grownups” like Dick Cheney and tactical wizards like Karl Rove, now seemed as water-logged as Biloxi and New Orleans. The mismanagement of the Katrina floods echoed the White House mismanagement—the cavalier posture, the wretched decisions, the self-delusions—in postwar Iraq.

<clip>

The President’s incuriosity, his prideful insistence on being an underbriefed “gut player,” is not looking so charming right now, either, if it ever did. In the ABC interview, he said, “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.” Even the most cursory review shows that there have been comprehensive and chilling warnings of a potential calamity on the Gulf Coast for years. The most telling, but hardly the only, example was a five-part series in 2002 by John McQuaid and Mark Schleifstein in the New Orleans Times-Picayune, a newspaper that heroically kept publishing on the Internet last week. After evaluating the city’s structural deficiencies, the Times-Picayune reporters concluded that a catastrophe was “a matter of when, not if.” The same paper said last year, “For the first time in 37 years, federal budget cuts have all but stopped major work on the New Orleans area’s east bank hurricane levees, a complex network of concrete walls, metal gates and giant earthen berms that won’t be finished for at least another decade.” A Category 4 or 5 hurricane would be a catastrophe: “Soon the geographical ‘bowl’ of the Crescent City would fill up with the waters of the lake, leaving those unable to evacuate with little option but to cluster on rooftops—terrain they would have to share with hungry rats, fire ants, nutria, snakes, and perhaps alligators. The water itself would become a festering stew of sewage, gasoline, refinery chemicals, and debris.” And that describes much of the Gulf Coast today.

More at the link:

http://www.newyorker.com/printables/talk/050912ta_talk_remnick

Bush and Cheney must resign.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

108. And, we have 7 KIA in Iraq since Sept 1 2005 -- total now 1890.

Bush and Cheney must resign.

The murderers must be stopped.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

117. BBC: The grim journey to find survivors

The grim journey to find survivors

In a back bedroom we find her mother dead.

There are five children - a neighbour insists they cannot stay in the house in the heavy heat. We agree to take them out in our boat.

They say little, not even to the neighbour, as we help them with their few possessions.

It seems quite incredible to me that we are the only boat in a neighbourhood like this. In almost every street that we have gone into, there are people like this family with so many needs.

<clip>

Link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4218612.stm

A BBC news crew doing evacuations - got that.

And, about the 'why didn't you leave' crap we've been hearing from Bush and his fellow murderers -- well, one answer is "we couldn't leave her, she's our mother."


Why have Bush and Cheney not yet been forced to resign? Our representatives are not doing their job.


Peace.

[earth mom]

78. I'm with you! eom

[oddtext]

80. EVERYONE WRITE!

my draft is ready:

This is a time Fortitude and Courage; our Nation depends on you in the coming Years if It is to Survive.

We are half-way into the Fourth Year of Republican Rule. We have seen too many failures and too many Corpses in Streets at Home and Abroad.

We have Witnessed unprecedented Hijackings where planes flew unchecked through our skies for nearly two hours. Our tallest buildings fell. One-fifth of the Pentagon was destroyed. Three-Thousand Citizens perished.

Osama Bin Laden is free--apparently an after-thought. Terri Schiavo is dead.

We were told Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction and Saddam was a danger to us. None were found. No Danger Substantiated. Nearly Two-Thousand Fine Troops have died, and many more have been maimed physically and psychologically, Forever. Our Military is crippled and unable to protect the Homeland. There is no Strategy to end this Nightmare. As a result, we have incurred Stupendous National Debt which has been largely financed by the Chinese; each day China controls a larger portion of Our Future.

New Orleans, our 35th Largest City and Sea Port is Destroyed. We await word of how many Tens of Thousands of Children, Babies, Grandparents, Mothers, Fathers, Brothers and Sisters were left to feed Rats and Alligators in the streets of the Crescent City solely because the Federal Government, frankly, Masturbated in their Time of Need.

America cannot suffer the lies and incompetence of this leadership for Three and One-Half More Years. You must be Courageous. It is obvious that this Administration cannot govern this Once Great Nation. All of the forgoing were once unforseeable to me. They were consigned to Nightmares only, never to be Real. All this and far more now seems very Likely.

In the Words of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana President Aaron Broussard: "Shut Up and Send us Somebody!"

Morally, One Must Place Citizenship above Party and Talking Points. Pray for America. Demand Resignation, if Refused, Impeach.

[understandinglife]

82. This is a superb letter. Details and passion and call for action.

Thank you and please do send it far and wide.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

83. Huffington Post: I've placed a link to this thread in a news item ....

... in a news item at Huffington Post that cites the Deputy Police Chief's statement and they have published it!

Here is the relevant thread at HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/09/05/new-orleans-deputy-police_n_6900.html

Some of you may want to urge Ms Huffington to post an explicit call for Bush and Cheney's resignation and ask her to post a request that all Members of Congress go to the White House tomorrow and tell Bush and Cheney to resign.


Peace.

[gumby]

84. Call Wisconsin Public Radio TOMORROW

Call WPR at 8:00am CST to demand that Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wingnut) support the immediate resignation of Bush and his administration.

Listen to WPR's Ideas Network at http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/live.cfm

call-in number 800-642-1234

edit: programs are subject to change.

[understandinglife]

88. Will do. Thank you!

Peace.

[FreedomAngel82]

85. If only

I doubt it'd happen though.

[Pooka Fey]

89. KICK. Bush, Cheney. Rice. Rumsfeld. OUT NOW.

[Anywho6]

90. I second your demand for * et al to resign immediately!

The * administration continues to be a complete disgrace to this country.

Kicked and nominated!

Peace...

:kick:

[donheld]

91. Great post

kick

[Dangerman]

93. Bush and Cheney resign on September 6, 2005...

That's wishful thinking...

With all the Repukes in control of the government, only a miracle can force Bush to resign...

However, this disaster is good enough ammo to vote Democrat on 2006, enough Democrats to call and impeach that son of a bitch in the White House.

[FighttheFuture]

94. Resignation is just the start... they must be put on trial...

This type of behavior, these type of people, must never again taint our institutions.

[stealthbadger]

95. Agreed. [NT]

[Dangerman]

119. Same here.

[gumby]

96. FUCK Wisconsin Public Radio

I got through and was on hold to say that the #1 priority of Congress should be the resignation of George Bush.

THEY WOULDN'T LET ME ON THE AIR!!! The host mentioned some of on hold who were "pointing blame" instead of addressing the issues!!!!

There's an example of your commie-pinko-socialist Public Radio
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[understandinglife]

97. Letter I've been sending .... in addition to phone calls ...

September 6, 2005

Dear Senator xxxxx,

I call on you as a Representative of the People of the United States of America, to meet your Constitutional duty to defend the Republic against all enemies – domestic and foreign. Thus, I request that you go to the White House today, and demand that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney resign.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are responsible for the colossal destruction of the infrastructure of the United States of America.

The culmination of their coordinated indifference and willful neglect of the protective infrastructure of New Orleans and the appropriate actions to protect the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is now fully visible to all.

The whole world is not merely watching they've made it clear they know exactly who are responsible.

We do not need to await leaked classified documents or whistle blowers or any form of insider information. We have all the facts we need to demand the immediate resignation and subsequent retribution by Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and many of their minions.

The only Members of Congress for whom this is a ‘political issue’ are the Republicans. They must confront the decision of saving some vestige of the Republican Party, just as Senator Goldwater and a few of his colleagues confronted in August of 1974 when they went to the White House and told President Nixon to resign. I have communicated that reality to the respective staff of senior Republican Senators.

The whole world is watching and their revulsion is not confined to one political party or another, it is directed at the vast inhumanity demonstrated by Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and all those aligned with their criminal neglect of the people of New Orleans, their unbounded avarice, and their total disregard for the law.

Thank you, in advance, for requesting the resignation of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, today.

Sincerely,

Feel free to cut and paste as you find useful.


Peace.

[4 t 4]

98. YES THEY MUST GO!

NOW!!!!!!!!!!!

[QuettaKid]

99. KICK. nt.

:kick:

[understandinglife]

100. I've sent a copy of the letter to Gov Dean requesting he make the calls ..

... to Members of Congress and insist that they go to the White House today and demand Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney resign.

No more delays; be unrelenting, 24x7 .... people are dying and the entire world is watching. It is up to us to stop the crimes.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

101. I have sent copies to Huffington Post, AMERICABlog, VR, Brad Blog, ...

... AfterDowningStreet, ... requesting they place the letter on their site as to make it easy for others to cut/paste/sign/fax.

Please urge as many sites as possible to demand this action of OUR elected representatives.

We are not waiting until "tomorrow," or for some investigation, or ... - we have all the evidence we need of the vast failures of Bush and Cheney and they must be forced to resign, NOW.

Thank you.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

118. My email to Ms Oprah Winfrey:

Dear Ms Winfrey,

I request that you call all our Members of Congress to meet their Constitutional duty to defend the Republic against all enemies – domestic and foreign - and demand that Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney resign.

Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney are responsible for the colossal destruction of the infrastructure of the United States of America.

The culmination of their coordinated indifference and willful neglect of the protective infrastructure of New Orleans and the appropriate actions to protect the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is now fully visible to all.

The whole world is not merely watching they've made it clear they know exactly who are responsible.

We do not need to await leaked classified documents or whistle blowers or any form of insider information. We have all the facts we need to demand the immediate resignation and subsequent retribution by Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and many of their minions.

The whole world is watching and their revulsion is not confined to one political party or another, it is directed at the vast inhumanity demonstrated by Mr. Bush, Mr. Cheney and all those aligned with their criminal neglect of the people of New Orleans, their unbounded avarice, and their total disregard for the law.

Thank you, in advance, for requesting the resignation of Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney.

And, thank you for your exceptional leadership demonstrated today by your actions in New Orleans. Please do not stop.

Peace,

[The Stranger]

103. "Peace"?

"Peace"?

Then expect more of the same.

[understandinglife]

105. Peace is the message. It is the strict inverse of "the same" to which ...

.... you refer. More systematic disregard for humanity and the law are the products of those who have no capacity for peace.

A response to those individuals - the only response worthy of the efforts of those of us who respect life and who want to sustain civilization - is the peaceful application of the law and our unswerving use of the tools of knowledge and capital to make it impossible for Bush, Cheney and their neoconster gang to continue.


Peace. In_deed.

[LoZoccolo]

107. Oh geez gimme a break.

The job of our elected representatives is too important for them to be wasting it listening to everyone's manipulative demands here.

[Nothing Without Hope]

109. He's saying the bald truth. Trouble is, the line of succession is truly

monstrous in this criminal administration. But yes, they need to be pushed to resign and impeachment proceedings need to be brought.

Here's the line of succession after the Vice President:

http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_succ.html
The original Constitution provides that if neither the President nor Vice President can serve, the Congress shall provide law stating who is next in line. Currently that law exists as 3 USC 19, a section of the U.S. Code. This law was established as part of the Presidential Succession Act of 1947. There, the following line of succession is provided:

Speaker of the House of Representatives
President Pro Tempore of the Senate
Secretary of State
Secretary of the Treasury
Secretary of Defense
Attorney General
Secretary of the Interior
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce
Secretary of Labor
Secretary of Health and Human Services
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
Secretary of Transportation
Secretary of Energy
Secretary of Education
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Secretary of Homeland Security (not yet set by law)

(snip)

What a lineup of horrors. Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House, would be next, and he is as bad as Bush and Cheney. He said very early that "it made no sense" to rebuild New Orleans. But isn't he the one that turned up recently in reports of shady Turkish money? I'm too tired to go Google right now to confirm this hazy memory. We need to collect the crime lists for each of these creeps. None of them would be all that much of an improvement if Congress continued its "give the Prez anything, Sieg Heil!" unconstitutional spree.

I've wondered if one of the minor "side-benefits" of the overall plan was to clear out the poor people from New Orleans so corporate cronies could use the extremely valuable land for more oil refineries, shipyards, and resorts. This would also remove a major Dem-voting bloc at the same time. Politics and money - and they want martial law too. Though they won't call it that, it's not Orwellian enough. They'll either try to keep it secret entirely, pretending that extended federal takeover of state and civilian rights isn't happening or always was that way before. Or they might name it something like "Operation Safe America."

Lots of reasons behind this plan of theirs, that's just one of them, and not the most important one, I suspect. There are others. No wonder Bush looked so cheery when it became clear that this hurricane would be devastating. Remember? like a cat that ate the canary and is sure he can get away with it...again.

If I'm allowed to say I believe that the monstrous crime was deliberate.

Hey! I got to give the 77th vote! :toast:

Peace

http://www.pacificvillage.org.nyud.net:8090/villagevoices/int4/Dalai_Lama.jpg

[Nothing Without Hope]

114. ChiTrib: "Nearby Navy Ship Underused" - doctors idle, hospital beds empty

Meanwhile, people are still dying of prolonged neglect. And wasn't there a story of a mother giving birth to a baby in one of those huge noisome evacuee pens and both of them dying? And no damn wonder. Meanwhile, there were clean hospital beds and doctors ready a helicopter flight away. If this doesn’t stir up outrage and heartbreak in my country, it’s lost its soul.

I can't understand why Americans have not realized before that the "Culture of Life" meme of the neocons is one of the cruellest Orwellian jokes of all.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story?page=1&ctrack=1&cset=true
chicagotribune.com >> Nation/World
GULF COAST CRISIS: OFF THE GULF COAST

Navy ship nearby underused

Craft with food, water, doctors needed orders
By Stephen J. Hedges
Tribune national correspondent
Published September 4, 2005

ON THE USS BATAAN -- While federal and state emergency planners scramble to get more military relief to Gulf Coast communities stricken by Hurricane Katrina, a massive naval goodwill station has been cruising offshore, underused and waiting for a larger role in the effort.

The USS Bataan, a 844-foot ship designed to dispatch Marines in amphibious assaults, has helicopters, doctors, hospital beds, food and water. It also can make its own water, up to 100,000 gallons a day. And it just happened to be in the Gulf of Mexico when Katrina came roaring ashore.

The Bataan rode out the storm and then followed it toward shore, awaiting relief orders. Helicopter pilots flying from its deck were some of the first to begin plucking stranded New Orleans residents.

But now the Bataan's hospital facilities, including six operating rooms and beds for 600 patients, are empty. A good share of its 1,200 sailors could also go ashore to help with the relief effort, but they haven't been asked. The Bataan has been in the stricken region the longest of any military unit, but federal authorities have yet to fully utilize the ship.

(snip)

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/wood090305.html
Sept. 3, 2005

Military Expresses Frustration Over Red Tape

BY DAVID WOOD?c.2005 Newhouse News Service

(snip)

As of Friday morning, according to officers here, only 12,000 Guardsmen from all contributing states were on station in Louisiana and Mississippi. That's less than half the 30,000 National Guard troops available for deployment from the immediate region -- Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida -- according to officials at the National Guard Bureau in Arlington, Va.

"There is a tremendous amount of frustration here, that we have assets stacked up ready to go and we don't have the requests for them," said an officer who asked not to be identified. "All we can do is nudge the folks at FEMA and say, `How about if we do this or that?"'

FEMA spokeswoman Natalie Rule defended her agency's coordination efforts with the Pentagon.

"The military has been joined at the hip (with FEMA) since this storm was approaching Florida," Rule said. "We were working all together on the national coordination response in Washington as well as at the regional level 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

(snip)

(David Wood can be contacted at [e-mail])

[understandinglife]

116. I think Oprah stuck it to them today in ways they will find impossible ...

... to spin away.

Bush, Cheney and their minions are going to be deposed for what they did to the people of New Orleans - whether it be because of intentional disregard or colossal dysfunction, they will be made to resign.


Peace.

[understandinglife]

115. AMERICABlog posts an amazing response to Gen Myers' lies; all their lies

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2005/09/is-general-myers-liar-or-idiot.html




BUSH OUT NOW; CHENEY OUT NOW ... and many more to fall after them.


Peace.