[Centraal Hurricane Katrina] Problemen in New Orleans deel 3

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:08 schreef MartijnA3 het volgende:
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:12 schreef indahnesia.com het volgende:

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lees mijn zin nog eens rustig door en je komt al direct tot de conclusie dat dat hier absoluut niet genoemd mag worden inderdaad.

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:08 schreef MartijnA3 het volgende:
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush


Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.

Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with?

Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!

I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?

And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!

On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that.

There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland.

No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this!

You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:07 schreef halion het volgende:

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toch heeft ie gestudeerd aan Yale en Harvard.

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:11 schreef indahnesia.com het volgende:

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Dat heeft niets te maken met dat mensen soms dom over kunnen komen hoor, dat heet persoonlijkheid.

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:15 schreef indahnesia.com het volgende:

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Ik denk trouwens dat CNN het nog netjes houdt, en dat er doden in beeld zijn, tja harde realiteit. Op Ogrish.com of rotten.com zullen de filmpjes vast al staan, ik heb er alleen totaal geen behoefte aan daar te kijken

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:08 schreef MartijnA3 het volgende:
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush


Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:16 schreef American_Nightmare het volgende:

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En als je zelf over enige intelligentie beschikt dan weet je dat iemands uitstraling absoluut niets zegt over zijn optreden en handelen als president.

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:08 schreef MartijnA3 het volgende:
Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush


Friday, September 2nd, 2005

Dear Mr. Bush:

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:15 schreef indahnesia.com het volgende:

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Ik denk trouwens dat CNN het nog netjes houdt, en dat er doden in beeld zijn, tja harde realiteit. Op Ogrish.com of rotten.com zullen de filmpjes vast al staan, ik heb er alleen totaal geen behoefte aan daar te kijken

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:11 schreef XcUZ_Me het volgende:

Laat écht zien wat er gebeurt. Niet om sensatieredenen, niet uit nieuwsgierigheid, maar puur als een signaal aan de wereld.

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:13 schreef American_Nightmare het volgende:

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Staatsidioot Moore grijpt ook weer even deze heerlijke ramp aan om met z'n dikke volgevreten harses in de media te verschijnen.

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:21 schreef Beezz het volgende:

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Pfff, misschien moet je lezen wat er staat. Hij heeft ook niet gelijk ofzo?

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Op vrijdag 2 september 2005 16:22 schreef SEMTEX het volgende:
Kan er niet een apart 'flame hier over het beleid van Bush en de zijnen'-topic komen?