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To: Crackingham

Bush is right on. Refugees are people who have no country to live in, or cannot live safely at home and must relocate to another country. The people are victims of a devastating hurricane, but they are not refugees. The news media have become one great, big gaggle of yellow journalism.


16 posted on 09/06/2005 4:11:23 PM PDT by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the Mohammedans has devastated the churches of God" -Pope Urban II, 1097AD)
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To: TheCrusader
Bush is right on. Refugees are people who have no country to live in, or cannot live safely at home and must relocate to another country. The people are victims of a devastating hurricane, but they are not refugees. The news media have become one great, big gaggle of yellow journalism.

So when Bob Dylan was singing about refuge from the storm, he wasn't talking about providing a safe place for someone who needed it.

20 posted on 09/06/2005 4:15:46 PM PDT by Mark was here (How can they be called "Homeless" if their home is a field?.)
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