New Orleans

[ysengrin]

Yelling at the President now will not speed up the recovery efforts, so I'm putting this behind an LJ cut. It's allegations that will need to be addressed later, though.

Senator Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), in a press release dated 03 Sept:

But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment.

And, something that needs to be verified:

There was a striking dicrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.

ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time.

The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves, said ZDF.

EDIT: The ZDF story was apparently a combination of two stories, mixed in translation. The first was President Bush visiting a food distribution point in New Orleans, the second report reported (in translation) "But what has happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly recovery units appeared, suddenly bulldozers were there, those hadn't been seen here all the days before, and this in an area, in which it really wouldn't be necessary to do a big clean up, because far and wide nobody lives here anymore, the people are more inland in the city. The President travels with a press baggage [big crew]. This press baggage got very beautiful pictures which are supposed to say, that the President was here and help is on the way, too." Details can be read at respectful of otters and War and Peace.

Comments

[bosn.livejournal.com]

It doesnt matter. The American people have come to expect it and wont even think its news. They wont care. there sheep. This president has done shit that would have got presidents in the past shot. He knows America is brainwashed and he will continue to write his legacy on lies and falsehoods.

[thiagope.livejournal.com]

Bosn, I´m not american, but I can say that I agree with EVERY word you said.