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The richest nation in the world has an area the size of the UK in ruins and they can do nothing to save the starving dying black people of the Gulf coast.
I know why, it's the wrong Gulf and not as much immediate need as securing the oil fields of Iraq. But right now, I'm sure some of those people would rather be in the current dregs of Iraq than be abandoned by their government in their own country.
There have been no food drops, no water drops and even a limited number of army reinforcements to protect desperate and innocent people from themselves killing each other and looting. I'm loving the spin by the media on looters, by the way. The true disgusting people in this situation are the media who are using fuel and valuable life-saving transport such as helicopters to take videos of people crying for help, they should put those helicopters to better use and realise that all the looters want is a bottle of water or juice and a pack of crisps or a Mars bar.
But the creme de la creme of all American arrogance came from a Louisianna politician who was quoted as saying "This is only what I can imaging Hiroshima was like after the bomb". I hate this from Americans. How can the innocent deaths of people at the hands of mother nature be compared to the Americans dropping nuclear weapons on a condensed area built up with wooden houses and the poorest of the poor in 1940's Japan.
Many of those people would still be alive today if it was not for the American government. Many of the dying today would be alive in 50 years time, if it wasn't for the arrogence of the American government, that's the only link and it's disgusting.
Maybe now America will take their elected officials and elections seriously and not as some big popularity contest, too many lives depend on it.
I know why, it's the wrong Gulf and not as much immediate need as securing the oil fields of Iraq. But right now, I'm sure some of those people would rather be in the current dregs of Iraq than be abandoned by their government in their own country.
There have been no food drops, no water drops and even a limited number of army reinforcements to protect desperate and innocent people from themselves killing each other and looting. I'm loving the spin by the media on looters, by the way. The true disgusting people in this situation are the media who are using fuel and valuable life-saving transport such as helicopters to take videos of people crying for help, they should put those helicopters to better use and realise that all the looters want is a bottle of water or juice and a pack of crisps or a Mars bar.
But the creme de la creme of all American arrogance came from a Louisianna politician who was quoted as saying "This is only what I can imaging Hiroshima was like after the bomb". I hate this from Americans. How can the innocent deaths of people at the hands of mother nature be compared to the Americans dropping nuclear weapons on a condensed area built up with wooden houses and the poorest of the poor in 1940's Japan.
Many of those people would still be alive today if it was not for the American government. Many of the dying today would be alive in 50 years time, if it wasn't for the arrogence of the American government, that's the only link and it's disgusting.
Maybe now America will take their elected officials and elections seriously and not as some big popularity contest, too many lives depend on it.
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The richest nation in the world has an area the size of the UK in ruins and they can do nothing to save the starving dying black people of the Gulf coast.
I know why, it's the wrong Gulf and not as much immediate need as securing the oil fields of Iraq. But right now, I'm sure some of those people would rather be in the current dregs of Iraq than be abandoned by their government in their own country.
There have been no food drops, no water drops and even a limited number of army reinforcements to protect desperate and innocent people from themselves killing each other and looting. I'm loving the spin by the media on looters, by the way. The true disgusting people in this situation are the media who are using fuel and valuable life-saving transport such as helicopters to take videos of people crying for help, they should put those helicopters to better use and realise that all the looters want is a bottle of water or juice and a pack of crisps or a Mars bar.
But the creme de la creme of all American arrogance came from a Louisianna politician who was quoted as saying "This is only what I can imaging Hiroshima was like after the bomb". I hate this from Americans. How can the innocent deaths of people at the hands of mother nature be compared to the Americans dropping nuclear weapons on a condensed area built up with wooden houses and the poorest of the poor in 1940's Japan.
Many of those people would still be alive today if it was not for the American government. Many of the dying today would be alive in 50 years time, if it wasn't for the arrogence of the American government, that's the only link and it's disgusting.
Maybe now America will take their elected officials and elections seriously and not as some big popularity contest, too many lives depend on it.
I know why, it's the wrong Gulf and not as much immediate need as securing the oil fields of Iraq. But right now, I'm sure some of those people would rather be in the current dregs of Iraq than be abandoned by their government in their own country.
There have been no food drops, no water drops and even a limited number of army reinforcements to protect desperate and innocent people from themselves killing each other and looting. I'm loving the spin by the media on looters, by the way. The true disgusting people in this situation are the media who are using fuel and valuable life-saving transport such as helicopters to take videos of people crying for help, they should put those helicopters to better use and realise that all the looters want is a bottle of water or juice and a pack of crisps or a Mars bar.
But the creme de la creme of all American arrogance came from a Louisianna politician who was quoted as saying "This is only what I can imaging Hiroshima was like after the bomb". I hate this from Americans. How can the innocent deaths of people at the hands of mother nature be compared to the Americans dropping nuclear weapons on a condensed area built up with wooden houses and the poorest of the poor in 1940's Japan.
Many of those people would still be alive today if it was not for the American government. Many of the dying today would be alive in 50 years time, if it wasn't for the arrogence of the American government, that's the only link and it's disgusting.
Maybe now America will take their elected officials and elections seriously and not as some big popularity contest, too many lives depend on it.
Too true.
American Military Police have now been issued with "Shoot to Kill" orders to deal with starving, dehydrated and desperate poor people.
That's the GWB way of life though isn't it?
The Lonestar cowboy and his six shooter?
Give them what they need to live and they'll behave.
Put a gun to their head and they'll try to shoot you first.
They'd be as well carpet bombing the area like they did to Afghanistan. That'd help stop the looting, the poor people don't matter anyway and it'd help burn the debris and regenerate the land.
But GWB is looking forward to his "trip" to New Orleans. Tw@t.
That's the GWB way of life though isn't it?
The Lonestar cowboy and his six shooter?
Give them what they need to live and they'll behave.
Put a gun to their head and they'll try to shoot you first.
They'd be as well carpet bombing the area like they did to Afghanistan. That'd help stop the looting, the poor people don't matter anyway and it'd help burn the debris and regenerate the land.
But GWB is looking forward to his "trip" to New Orleans. Tw@t.
It's awful, that's all I can say.
I watched a wee bit of the news last night, and some guy asked for something to eat from teh reporter, who promptly told him "no" rolled up the window of his car and they drove away.
That's when I turned the TV off.
I watched a wee bit of the news last night, and some guy asked for something to eat from teh reporter, who promptly told him "no" rolled up the window of his car and they drove away.
That's when I turned the TV off.
Bonus wrote:
> American Military Police have now been issued with "Shoot to
> Kill" orders to deal with starving, dehydrated and desperate
> poor people.
?????
why are they shooting them?
instead of piling troops in with guns, send them in with packed lunches for everyone who needs one.
i fail to see how guns will make a cleanup operation any easier.
> But GWB is looking forward to his "trip" to New Orleans.
> Tw@t.
it's insulting isn't it.
unless he heads down there, grabs a shovel and gets stuck in.... which i doubt.
> American Military Police have now been issued with "Shoot to
> Kill" orders to deal with starving, dehydrated and desperate
> poor people.
?????
why are they shooting them?
instead of piling troops in with guns, send them in with packed lunches for everyone who needs one.
i fail to see how guns will make a cleanup operation any easier.
> But GWB is looking forward to his "trip" to New Orleans.
> Tw@t.
it's insulting isn't it.
unless he heads down there, grabs a shovel and gets stuck in.... which i doubt.
I was going to start a post on this before seeing this thread.
Pretty insane if you ask me.
To be entirely honest, at the start of the storms life, I really didn't pay much attention to the story. The America<->Hurricane ordeal is kind of the usual thing you see once a year and so it doesn't brush off as being serious or spontaneous.
It was only the aftermath in which I started to take notice, the news footage is getting more horrifying by the day. Thousands of people stranded and hungry, no one knows of the fatality count and disease is spreading.
One news reporter even said he heard a small gun fight around the corner just before he fed back his piece to the news room.
Bush's ignorancy to assisting in this disaster is a joke.
Tsunami 2004 - Assistance was sent immediatly to a country thousands of miles away.
Katrina 2005 - Hardly anything. On home soil. It's surprisingly stupid.
Pretty insane if you ask me.
To be entirely honest, at the start of the storms life, I really didn't pay much attention to the story. The America<->Hurricane ordeal is kind of the usual thing you see once a year and so it doesn't brush off as being serious or spontaneous.
It was only the aftermath in which I started to take notice, the news footage is getting more horrifying by the day. Thousands of people stranded and hungry, no one knows of the fatality count and disease is spreading.
One news reporter even said he heard a small gun fight around the corner just before he fed back his piece to the news room.
Bush's ignorancy to assisting in this disaster is a joke.
Tsunami 2004 - Assistance was sent immediatly to a country thousands of miles away.
Katrina 2005 - Hardly anything. On home soil. It's surprisingly stupid.
One comment i read pretty much summed it up for me
*Our President can send millions of dollars of aid to all these different countries but when it's us who need help he's nowhere to be seen, he's just left us here to die*
Probably up in the oval office looking at a map trying to find another country his daddy didn't like to wage war on.
*Our President can send millions of dollars of aid to all these different countries but when it's us who need help he's nowhere to be seen, he's just left us here to die*
Probably up in the oval office looking at a map trying to find another country his daddy didn't like to wage war on.
A catastrophe of this magnitude in the poorest of locations in the US is a true devestation. Perhaps instead of condemning a nation attempting to recover and survive, you should do something more constructive for humanities sake. This thread is just dripping with your hate.
What the world needs less of are finger-pointers in the wake of a catastrophe. What shame..
What the world needs less of are finger-pointers in the wake of a catastrophe. What shame..
If the Us government can't help and are shooting people desperate for food and water.
I doubt I can do anything to help the humanitarian effort so far away.
I doubt I can do anything to help the humanitarian effort so far away.
I have to say, I doubt if it's because they're black. It may be a predominantly black area, but there are very many white people there too. But then in this day and age, the race card are always among the first things brought up.
Would it have been different if Katrina had hit elsewhere? I doubt it, but as she didn't, we'll never know.
I think the biggest problem is that no-one in the US either had any idea, or truly believed, just how much devastation this hurricane was going to cause. They simply were not prepared for the aftermath.
I agree, though, about the Hiroshima comment. Those killed by Katrina are just a small drop in the ocean (no pun intended) compared to those killed by the US bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And let's not forget, until Bush was pressed by Blair, the US had donated a relative pittance to the tsunami appeal.
Would it have been different if Katrina had hit elsewhere? I doubt it, but as she didn't, we'll never know.
I think the biggest problem is that no-one in the US either had any idea, or truly believed, just how much devastation this hurricane was going to cause. They simply were not prepared for the aftermath.
I agree, though, about the Hiroshima comment. Those killed by Katrina are just a small drop in the ocean (no pun intended) compared to those killed by the US bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
And let's not forget, until Bush was pressed by Blair, the US had donated a relative pittance to the tsunami appeal.
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