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Titolo: New Orleans paga per tutti

http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7131
How New Orleans Was Lost
by Paul Craig Roberts
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.
Distracted by its phony war on terrorism, the U.S. government had made
no preparations in the event Hurricane Katrina brought catastrophe to
New Orleans.
No contingency plan existed.
Only now after the disaster are FEMA and the Corps of Engineers trying
to assemble the material and equipment to save New Orleans from the
fate of Atlantis.
Even worse, articles in the New Orleans Times-Picayune and public
statements by emergency management chiefs in New Orleans make it clear
that the Bush administration slashed the funding for the Corps of
Engineers' projects to strengthen and raise the New Orleans levees and
diverted the money to the Iraq war.
Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, told
the New Orleans Times-Picayune (June 8, 2004):
"It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to
handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the
price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be
finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that
this is a security issue for us."
Why can't the U.S. government focus on America's needs and leave other
countries alone?
Why are American troops in Iraq instead of protecting our own borders
from a mass invasion by illegal immigrants?
Why are American helicopters blowing up Iraqi homes instead of saving
American homes in New Orleans?
How can the Bush administration be so incompetent as to expose
Americans at home to dire risks by exhausting American resources in
foolish foreign adventures?
What kind of "homeland security" is this?
All Bush has achieved by invading Iraq is to kill and wound thousands
of people while destroying America's reputation.
The only beneficiaries are oil companies capitalizing on a good excuse
to jack up the price of gasoline and Osama bin Laden's recruitment.
What we have is a Republican war for oil company profits while New
Orleans sinks beneath the waters.

 from a mass invasion by illegal immigrants?
Occazzo, che idiozia... Guarda che succede quando uno non finisce di leggere
gli artt. che posta...
Namib

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#_Ahhhh!
Ma per quella sorta di "difese" ci sono le organizzazioni locali fra "i
civili" (cioe`"i non militari"-si fa cosi` per dire-) da prendere ad
esempio; come in New Mexico, dove alcuni "baldi" abitanti delle citta`vicine
il confine, armati di tutto punto, organizzano "safari" e caccia grossa a
bordo di pickup-track.
Giano
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Democrazia
Pace
Difesa dei diritti umani
Salvaguardia dell'ambiente

 Orleans sinks beneath the waters.
Mentre l'ineffabile De Ce' si chiede: "Ma certe persone meritano poi di 
essere salvate?"
Am.

Giano ha scritto:
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bei pezzi di merda...
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