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Sidney Blumenthal RE: Katrina -- 'It's Bush's Fault'
Der Spiegel ^ | 2005-08-31 | Sidney Blumenthal

Posted on 09/01/2005 5:40:44 AM PDT by soundandvision

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To: soundandvision

As much as I loath this guy, and he's probably playing fast and loose with the facts, he brings up something that needs to be addressed. Most of us are outraged at all the "pork" in our federal budget. The last budget was obscene. If we can afford a couple a hundred million dollars to build a "traffic" bridge for a Republican in Alaska, why do we not fund levies for a Democrat in NOLA?


21 posted on 09/01/2005 5:59:35 AM PDT by manwiththehands
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To: longtermmemmory

anyone else notice how hitlary has again disappeared?

I thought she was on vacation in Hawaii, with her "husband" Sir William?


22 posted on 09/01/2005 6:01:01 AM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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To: soundandvision

If I am going to read this (((puke))) I need more periods and paragraphs.


23 posted on 09/01/2005 6:01:47 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: soundandvision

"In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary, much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane."

Dear Sidney, Even if "wetlands protection" could be accomplished so soon after "four leading environmental groups" arrived at their conclusion in 2004, your article doesn't mention whether such measures would have helped against a Category 4 or 5 hurricane.


24 posted on 09/01/2005 6:04:47 AM PDT by afortiori
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To: soundandvision

I'm just waiting for the enviro-wackos to start with the line that "The hurricane was sent by the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia to punish the evil Bush for not signing the Kyoto Treaty". Just wait, it's on the way.

The sun rises in the morning - It's Bush's fault!
Water flows downhill - It's Bush's fault!


25 posted on 09/01/2005 6:05:06 AM PDT by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: soundandvision

Sidney Blumenthal is very close to both Clintons, he's probably trying to curry favor with hitlery in order to get a job on her campaign staff.


26 posted on 09/01/2005 6:05:56 AM PDT by moose2004 (You Can Run But You Can't Hide!)
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To: soundandvision

This is Hillary's lap dog. He speaks for her when he is not writing for ultra left-wing garbage like The Guardian.


27 posted on 09/01/2005 6:06:12 AM PDT by Brofholdonow
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To: cweese

We won't have to suffer through another photo of her in a swimsuit, will we?


28 posted on 09/01/2005 6:10:49 AM PDT by Brofholdonow
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To: Fred Hayek
"The hurricane was sent by the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia to punish the evil Bush for not signing the Kyoto Treaty". Just wait, it's on the way.

You don't have to wait for that one. Robert Kennedy Jr. wrote it yesterday.

My favorite part of his piece is where the hurricane, like an angry Frankenstein's monster, takes a last minute turn towards Mississippi to try to kill its creator - Haley Barbour.

I kid you not. That's his theory.

29 posted on 09/01/2005 6:14:37 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: CROSSHIGHWAYMAN

Liberals have 0 concept of "accountability for ones actions". This agenda is pushed mainly by the trial lawyers so they can sue for any reason possible and no one is responsible for their own actions.

Like people who buy a house near an airport and then bitch that its noisy all the time.


30 posted on 09/01/2005 6:15:47 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican
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To: soundandvision

whole = hole...sorry (it's early)


31 posted on 09/01/2005 6:16:30 AM PDT by soundandvision
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"A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken."

The Bush administration does not fund these studies. That is an out-right falsehood. These studies are funded at the Corps division level with additional resources being allocated by Congress, if needed.

The Corps does feasibility studies all the time. It has nothing to do with the president.


32 posted on 09/01/2005 6:18:26 AM PDT by L98Fiero
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To: soundandvision
Interesting to see that this moron could only get crap like this published in Der Spiegel. Anyone know what Der Spiegel's distribution figures are for the US?? Sydney should be in NOLA supporting the "less fortunates" that have had to resort to looting and car-jacking as their contribution to disaster relief.
33 posted on 09/01/2005 6:27:59 AM PDT by USMA '71
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To: Sister_T
Someone here mentioned that it was actually Clinton who deserves the blame for what happened in New Orleans because the Army Corp of Engineers went to him about N.O. but he was the one who refused to give them the help they needed.

Do you know where I can find that story?

34 posted on 09/01/2005 6:39:58 AM PDT by processing please hold (Islam and Christianity do not mix ----9-11 taught us that)
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To: soundandvision

His isn't called "Sid Vicious" for nothing.

Even Hillary's gang of harpy lesbians was afraid of him because of his blackmail threats.

This thug is Damien in cheap black shoes.

35 posted on 09/01/2005 6:41:46 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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To: longtermmemmory

You nailed it. Its a Donk town, thru and thru.


36 posted on 09/01/2005 6:53:05 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: soundandvision

Facts in, merda out by the noted Mr. Blumenthal


37 posted on 09/01/2005 6:57:26 AM PDT by hgro (ews)
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To: soundandvision

The Princess of Darkness speaks.


38 posted on 09/01/2005 6:57:33 AM PDT by Fides et Ratio
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To: soundandvision
What an ass. I grew up in NO, and they were talking about this scenario in the 1970's. What is obvious to those of us that grew up there is the difference between the "River Levees" and the "New" canal levee that failed.

The River Levees are huge earthen dams so wide you can drive a truck on top of them. They are covered with concrete to prevent erosion near water level. They held.

The levee that failed looked like a concrete slab that was attached to an earthen support. The flat surface is weaker than a real levee that is sloped. The flat concrete presents a target for wind and waves the destroy. I realize it was a canal, but still... that was not a "real levee". That is not the President's fault.
39 posted on 09/01/2005 7:01:21 AM PDT by handy (Forgive me this day, my daily typos...The Truth is not a Smear!)
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To: pbrown

I read it here on FreeRepublic and I can't remember which thread I saw it. Sorry.


40 posted on 09/01/2005 7:04:27 AM PDT by Sister_T (Starve a RINO!!!)
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