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Tigress
(24.236.81.109) on 9/6/2005 - 6:23 p.m. says: ( 6 views
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"Ben Stein on Katrina:"
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Ben Stein on Katrina
A few truths, for those who have ears and eyes and care to know
the truth:
1.) The hurricane that hit New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama
was an astonishing tragedy. The suffering and loss of life and peace
of mind of the residents of those areas is acutely horrifying.
2.) George Bush did not cause the hurricane. Hurricanes have been
happening for eons. George Bush did not create them or unleash this
one.
3.) George Bush did not make this one worse than others. There have
been far worse hurricanes than this before George Bush was born.
4.) There is no overwhelming evidence that global warming exists as a
man-made phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence that global
warming even exists. There is no clear evidence that if it does exist
it makes hurricanes more powerful or makes them aim at cities with
large numbers of poor people. If global warming is a real phenomenon,
which it may well be, it started long before George Bush was
inaugurated, and would not have been affected at all by the Kyoto
treaty, considering that Kyoto does not cover the world's worst
polluters -- China, India, and Brazil. In a word, George Bush had
zero to do with causing this hurricane. To speculate otherwise is
belief in sorcery.
6.) George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane contingency
plans for New Orleans. Those are drawn up by New Orleans and
Louisiana. In any event, the plans were perfectly good: mandatory
evacuation. It is in no way at all George Bush's fault that about 20
percent of New Orleans neglected to follow the plan. It is not his
fault that many persons in New Orleans were too confused to realize
how dangerous the hurricane would be. They were certainly warned.
It's not George Bush's fault that there were sick people and old
people and people without cars in New Orleans. His job description
does not include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in
good health, has good sense, and is mobile.
7.) George Bush did not cause gangsters to shoot at rescue
helicopters taking people from rooftops, did not make gang bangers
rape young girls in the Superdome, did not make looters steal
hundreds of weapons, in short make New Orleans into a living hell.
8.) George Bush is the least racist President in mind and soul there
has ever been and this is shown in his appointments over and over. To
say otherwise is scandalously untrue.
9.) George Bush is rushing every bit of help he can to New Orleans
and Mississippi and Alabama as soon as he can. He is not a magician.
It takes time to organize huge convoys of food and now they are
starting to arrive. That they get in at all considering the
lawlessness of the city is a miracle of bravery and organization.
10.) There is not the slightest evidence at all that the war in Iraq
has diminished the response of the government to the emergency. To
say otherwise is pure slander.
11.) If the energy the news media puts into blaming Bush for an Act
of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New Orleans city
authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the city were
directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be a lot
better off.
12.) New Orleans is a great city with many great people. It will
recover and be greater than ever. Sticking pins into an effigy of
George Bush that does not resemble him in the slightest will not
speed the process by one day.
13.) The entire episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking
callousness of government officials at the ground level. Imagine if
Hillary Clinton had gotten her way and they were in charge of your
health care.
God bless all of those dear people who are suffering so much, and God
bless those helping them, starting with George Bush.
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