WHY BUSH HAS FAILED HIS PEOPLE
The hurricane has left a devastated landscape in Mark Twain country. Now that the task of Relief has begun the political questions will now be raised. So close to 9/11 comparisons with that event will be inevitable. 9/11 gave President Bush the much needed oppotunity to look presidential and strike heroic poses in front of the World Trade Center ruins 4 years back. Katrina on the other hand revealed the incomprable incompetence of FEMA whose Director, a college roommate of Allbaugh,has been caught by TIME Magazine for having fudged his CV. Republicans are notorious for rewarding high level agency appointments to party apparatichiks, in a style reminicent of the machine politics of the bad old days. An incompetent Director left the American people totally inprepared for the Hurrcane and all that the White House spokeman can say time and time again, We do not want to paly the blame game". This is nothing short of evasion of accountablity.
Iraq is another nightmare for this Administration. In spite of nearly 2 years of American Occupation and with a pliant Quisling Governemnt in place the USA is moving ahead with its paln to have the New Iraqi constitution in place by October 2005. The privatisation of the Iraqi Oil Resources seems to be the most dominant feature of the new constitution. The grantings of regional autonomy to Kurdish and Shia areas seems to have been done with a view to the eventual dismantling of the Arab state of Iraq and its replacement by two or even three ethnic states. The influence of Iran is bound to increase after this sham constitution is set in place. However, the insurgency is not likely to be contained, on the contrary, it is likely to get new adherents.
In both Iraq and Katrina we see the utter fasilure of the Bush Administration. It was unpreapred for a Natural Disaster and has created a huge human tragedy in Iraq. Just a thought: Seeing Biloxi and New Orleans people can imagine what normallife is for the Iraqis."