The Washington Post writes this morning:
"Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Hurricane Rita were stuck in their cars throughout much of Thursday, with many running out of gas and sweltering on roadsides in 100-degree heat as they waited for authorities to bring them gasoline."So let me contemplate this. 9/11 happens, 3000 people are killed. The Bush-government proclaims it will prevent future desasters like this. It founds the Homeland Security department. Next thing we know it starts wars with Afghanistan and Iraq. Some time later, hurricane Katrina hits the coast line of Louisiana and a historical city, a cradle of culture, is wiped out. A 1000 people die, seven year old children get raped, looting and anarchy govern over the New Orleans Superdome, where people are held like animals.
Now hurricane Rita, with a strength of 7 on the hurricane scale (Katrina was 5) shows up in front of the Texas coast line. Texas, for christs sake, that's the homeland of Mr. President himself! People have a short memory, but Katrina was not even out the door a new hurricane shows up, so they know what to do. They run.
Now tell me this. How many failures of government does it need to get a government overthrown? Does the entire country have to dissolve in chaos or just a fraction of it? It was easy to watch the wars like a video game when it was about "them there" and "us here". Now it's all here. It will be interesting to watch if a whole row of lies, failures and clearly displayed incompetence are important enough for an impeachment case. After all it's not a horrendous act like a blowjob from a trainee.
- Henning von Vogelsang
- September 23, 2005 12:01 AM
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