New Orleans : live verslag via het net

[Gert]

Als ik het verhaal achter deze site snap is dat het door een meneer wordt bijgehouden die voor zijn werk in een gebouw zit om er op te passen .
Als je zo hier en daar een beetje leest is het duidelijk : er is nog niks onder controle . Ja de wat minder vriendelijke mensen zeg maar die het nu voor het zeggen hebben in de stad

http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/

Mijn maag keert om door alles wat ik daar lees ; in ene zijn autos maar een stuk blik en niet meer relevant of belangrijk .
Misschien voelt dit wat anders aan omdat we vorig jaar een weekje in New Orleans waren ....
Diep triest was alleen de natuuramp al ..

[Gert]

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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
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.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

[Melvin]

michael moore, is dat niet eeen komediant o.i.d.?

[volksfahrer.nl]

michael moore, is dat niet eeen komediant o.i.d.?

Bowling for Columbine? (http://www.bowlingforcolumbine.com/)

[lwin]

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Friday, September 2nd, 2005
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.

Yours,

Michael Moore
MMFlint@aol.com
www.MichaelMoore.com

P.S. That annoying mother, Cindy Sheehan, is no longer at your ranch. She and dozens of other relatives of the Iraqi War dead are now driving across the country, stopping in many cities along the way. Maybe you can catch up with them before they get to DC on September 21st.

shit, heeft hij toch weer wat om tegen aan te schoppen, en hij heeft ook nog gelijk ook.
Anyway, heel erg voor die mensen daaro maar die komen er wel weer boven op, vind het binnen vallen van Irak vele malen ernstiger. :mad:
Maar als ik dan de verhalen en de foto's bekijk van een maat van me die voor 7 jaar geleden uit Somalie is gevlucht valt Irak ook nog wel mee.
Jammer man, USA is zo'n mooi land, jammer van de hypocriete en bekrompen denkwijze van de veel Amerikanen

[Thomas78]

USA lijkt wel een derdewereldland.

En dat stukje van Michael Moore; hij heeft idd gelijk.

[Dirk]

Goeie brief!

Hoe hard een wereldmacht op zijn bek kan gaan binnen de staatsgrenzen!

In Irak een beetje "orde" proberen te handhaven. (al is het alleen maar om de olie en persoonlijke verrijking van een paar machtige Amerikanen)
En in eigen land worden hulpverleners van het rode kruis ook gewoon beschoten net als in Bagdad.

Oh wat wappert de Stars & Stripes toch mooi.... :cool:

[Big_Mac_Mark]

Het is allemaal verschrikkelijk, dat zal ik zeker niet ontkennen (ik heb vrienden in new orleans die gelukkig ongedeerd zijn gebleven) maar onze eigen regering draait ook helemaal door!

Ze willen daar olie heen sturen! Waar zit Nederland dan met het verstand? In Nederland hebben we bijna een oliecrisis, en als Amerika 1 dag niet in Irak vecht spaart het ongeveer net zoveel ruwe olie als de hele Benelux een jaar niet tankt! En dan zullen we daar ook nog olie heen sturen?

[Volkswouter]

Rare mentaliteit hebben die mensen,verder wil ik er niks over kwijt.

[M.I.V.W]

Rare mentaliteit hebben die mensen,verder wil ik er niks over kwijt.

Hier sluit ik me bij aan............