Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: United States of Shame

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03dowd.html?ex=1283400000&en=b7933
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United States of Shame
By MAUREEN DOWD
Stuff happens.
And when you combine limited government with incompetent government,
lethal stuff happens.
America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death,
looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered
infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and
criminally negligent government planning.
But this time it's happening in America.
W. drove his budget-cutting Chevy to the levee, and it wasn't dry.
Bye, bye, American lives.
"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees," he told
Diane Sawyer.
Shirt-sleeves rolled up, W. finally landed in Hell yesterday and
chuckled about his wild boozing days in "the great city" of N'Awlins.
He was clearly moved.
"You know, I'm going to fly out of here in a minute," he said on the
runway at the New Orleans International Airport, "but I want you to
know that I'm not going to forget what I've seen."
Out of the cameras' range, and avoided by W., was a convoy of
thousands of sick and dying people, some sprawled on the floor or
dumped on baggage carousels at a makeshift M*A*S*H unit inside the
terminal.
Why does this self-styled "can do" president always lapse into such
lame "who could have known?" excuses.
Who on earth could have known that Osama bin Laden wanted to attack us
by flying planes into buildings?
Any official who bothered to read the trellis of pre-9/11 intelligence
briefs.
Who on earth could have known that an American invasion of Iraq would
spawn a brutal insurgency, terrorist recruiting boom and possible
civil war?
Any official who bothered to read the C.I.A.'s prewar reports.
Who on earth could have known that New Orleans's sinking levees were
at risk from a strong hurricane?
Anybody who bothered to read the endless warnings over the years about
the Big Easy's uneasy fishbowl.
In June 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson
Parish, fretted to The Times-Picayune in New Orleans:
"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."
Not only was the money depleted by the Bush folly in Iraq;
30 percent of the National Guard and about half its equipment are in
Iraq.
Ron Fournier of The Associated Press reported that the Army Corps of
Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane and flood programs in
New Orleans last year.
The White House carved it to about $40 million.
But President Bush and Congress agreed to a $286.4 billion pork-filled
highway bill with 6,000 pet projects, including a $231 million bridge
for a small, uninhabited Alaskan island.
Just last year, Federal Emergency Management Agency officials
practiced how they would respond to a fake hurricane that caused
floods and stranded New Orleans residents.
Imagine the feeble FEMA's response to Katrina if they had not
prepared.
Michael Brown, the blithering idiot in charge of FEMA - a job he
trained for by running something called the International Arabian
Horse Association - admitted he didn't know until Thursday that there
were 15,000 desperate, dehydrated, hungry, angry, dying victims of
Katrina in the New Orleans Convention Center.
Was he sacked instantly?
No, our tone-deaf president hailed him in Mobile, Ala., yesterday:
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
It would be one thing if President Bush and his inner circle - Dick
Cheney was vacationing in Wyoming; Condi Rice was shoe shopping at
Ferragamo's on Fifth Avenue and attended "Spamalot" before bloggers
chased her back to Washington; and Andy Card was off in Maine - lacked
empathy but could get the job done.
But it is a chilling lack of empathy combined with a stunning lack of
efficiency that could make this administration implode.
When the president and vice president rashly shook off our allies and
our respect for international law to pursue a war built on lies, when
they sanctioned torture, they shook the faith of the world in American
ideals.
When they were deaf for so long to the horrific misery and cries for
help of the victims in New Orleans - most of them poor and black, like
those stuck at the back of the evacuation line yesterday while 700
guests and employees of the Hyatt Hotel were bused out first - they
shook the faith of all Americans in American ideals.
And made us ashamed.
Who are we if we can't take care of our own?

 By MAUREEN DOWD
e adesso salteranno fuori gli imbecilli che hanno sempre
l'antiamericanismo in tasca
-- 
Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy        e-mail: 
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 l'antiamericanismo in tasca
Relax.
Tb
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 l'antiamericanismo in tasca
Sono gia' saltati fuori: Namib ne ha appena quotato l'articolo di uno :)
-Stefano

 l'antiamericanismo in tasca
hai indovinato : padre e figlio mano nella mano t'hanno replicato. <g>
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hai indovinato : padre e figlio mano nella mano t'hanno replicato. <g>
...disse il povero somaro culotastierato... :)
-Stefano

 : Relax.
Impossibile
MMAX
-- 
Io snobbo De Cesari.

 l'antiamericanismo in tasca
:-)
Sono corsi subito! 

 ha scritto nel messaggio 
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Ah s esolo quel confesiosnale potesse parlare..tsk tsk
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Si può dire, stando al manuale di IDL, che in questo caso "ti rodi 
compulsivamente" <MMcit>?
:-) 

 compulsivamente" <MMcit>?
Direi di no.
In compenso si puň dire che metti etichette a casaccio.
Tb
Ps: depilati
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Fatto.
P.S.: non bere più tutto quel vino o farai di nuovo cilecca <g> 

 : compulsivamente" <MMcit>?
No...pero'  la tua repentina e piccata risposta dice che la mia
battuta ha un suo senso, ora evidente.
Logi?
Si trombaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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 : P.S.: non bere più tutto quel vino o farai di nuovo cilecca <g> 
Ocio che gia' Logi è nervoso..se poi lo stuzzichi sul fronte "gelosia"
è capace di fare di tutto.
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Parliamo di noi, Max. Lascia perdere Saponetta: lui non ti ama, credimi! <g> 

 : Parliamo di noi, Max. Lascia perdere Saponetta: lui non ti ama, credimi! <g> 
Tu si'?
Incredibili questi cattolici [cit]
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 Si trombaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Non possono.
Palmiro Pangloss
-- 
You know, you come from nothing - you're going back to nothing.
What have you lost? Nothing!

 Spero non integrale..
Il concilio di Nicea condanna inequivocabilmente la brasilian wax.
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 : Non possono.
ma va Logi ha avuto come padre spirituale Frate Eligio l'ex cappellano
del Milan.
E miriam..brucia..ah se brucia...
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 E miriam..brucia..ah se brucia...
Mi spiace per loro ma il catechismo e' chiaro: pena di morte si ma 
trombare fuori dal sacro vincolo nada, nix.
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 : Il concilio di Nicea condanna inequivocabilmente la brasilian wax.
Si' ma pare che la sua estetista abbia fatto l'accademia di belle arti
e ora abbia modellato il tutto con il profilo di Oreitta Berti [un
must sessuale di Logi da sempre]
MMAX
ps
Per massimo1
http://donne.virgilio.it/itinerari/wax.html?pmk=hpmore
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http://donne.virgilio.it/itinerari/wax.html?pmk=hpmore
Poi non ti lamentare se devi intervenire di domenica armato di scafandro 
e moooooolti kleenex.
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 : trombare fuori dal sacro vincolo nada, nix.
beh pero' AFAIK c'hanno una roba comnoda che si chiama "confessione"
..una vera comodita': Logi prende e ZAC si inforchetta "epiLady"
Miriam ripetutamente dopodichč clippete cloppete corre dal prevosto e
gli dice che s'e' tanto pentito e che č tutta colpa di nahum. 
Il prevosto si fa raccontare in dettaglio il tutto [sono sempre
morbosetti in confesisone mi dicono] e poi gli fa di dire un tot di
preghiere..Logi lo fa ed č a posto.
Poi torna da Miriam e ZAC se l'arinforchetta e il giro ricomincia.
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 P.S.: non bere piů tutto quel vino o farai di nuovo cilecca <g> 
No, era la pelliccia.
Purtroppo mi fa quell'effetto.
Tb
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 Poi torna da Miriam e ZAC se l'arinforchetta e il giro ricomincia.
Pare facile ma non lo e': se e' premeditato non vale e farlo non 
premeditatamente non e' semplice.
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 : e moooooolti kleenex.
IMHO non capisce...il mio è solo  un tentativo.
MMAX
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 : premeditatamente non e' semplice.
Ma va hanno 2000 anni di esercizio...sono degli esperti.
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 Poi torna da Miriam e ZAC se l'arinforchetta e il giro ricomincia.
Sembra più una penitenza, però.
Che ha fatto di brutto il povero Logi?
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 : Che ha fatto di brutto il povero Logi?
Nel suo caso guarda che è un premio eh?
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 Beh se Miriam non mente...tu puoi dirlo.
Macché. Si è offerta carinamente, ma purtoppo ho avuto quel problema con 
gli afrori e la pelliccia.
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 : gli afrori e la pelliccia.
Miriam.....confermi?
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