Bush: New Orleans may need a decade

[sabra]

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060828-030243-4471r

Bush: New Orleans may need a decade

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- As he headed for the Gulf Coast on Monday, U.S. President George Bush told an interviewer he expects the rebuilding of New Orleans to take a decade.

Bush planned to spend the anniversary of the U.S. Gulf Coast landfall of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans after a visit to Biloxi, Miss.

"We can rebuild buildings, the question is can we rebuild its soul," he told April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks. "We can. I believe, 10 years from now April, you and I will be thinking about our time here, and trying to remember what it was like 10 years ago"

Bush came under fire last year for apparently ignoring Katrina immediately after New Orleans flooded and then flying over the city in Air Force One.

[electropop]

1. No help for NO "As long as I'm in office."

No help for anything bad in the world, as long as he's in power.

[coalition_unwilling]

2. can we prosecute him for negligent homicide? (n/t)

[maxsolomon]

3. just like iraq!

the parallels are startling :sarcasm:

translation: i'll leave this mess for the next president to clean up.

[kurth]

4. Meaning "Don't Look At Me!"

The Fuckwad President.

[angstlessk]

5. ANOTHER job for the 'next' president? Iraq and Katrina

bush failures left for the 'next' president..and bush aint done nothing wrong...if it dont work it...well blame someone else...WHAT A FREAK!

[Ezlivin]

6. I'm surprised that he hasn't blamed it on Clinton yet

It seems like everything else is Clinton's fault.

[MichiganVote]

7. Isn't it great? "in a decade" all our troubles will be solved

Iraq, Katrina, NCLB, SS, Medicare, deficits....ain't it grand? For all the problems the politicians have created in the last 5 years, or failed to solve in the last five years...its money in the bank, its a slam dunk....we are gonna be living on easy street in a decade. (sarcasm)


So what do we need the assholes in Washington for? We need to send these bozo's packing.

[Barrett808]

8. But "the next six months will be critical." n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. If he wasn't blowing a billion plus a week in Iraq

New Orleans could have been rebuilt by now.

Just like during the storm, this shithead hasn't lifted a finger to help anyone.

[cap]

10. hate to say it... but George Bush don't like black people...

that's all it comes down to. Pure and simple...

It dont take 10 years to rebuild New Orleans. We rebuilt all of Europe in 10 years after WWII. The country of Japan was up on its feet in 10 years. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were rebuilt after being COMPLETELY LEVELED.

This is just another way of saying that We arent gonna lift a finger to help you people.

[Joe for Clark]

11. Well, if he waits long enough they'll just get hit by another

hurricane, isn't it?

Then he can blame it on Clinton, I suppose. (and I am trying to be sarcastic)

That man put the A in *sshole.

Joe

[tanyev]

12. Oh, George. We're going to need several decades to recover from you.

[Tesha]

22. Up above, I said NOLA ain't coming back. Here, I'll speculate that America

> Oh, George. We're going to need several decades to recover from you.

Up above, I said NOLA ain't coming back. Here, I'll speculate that
America ain't coming back either, not for centuries.

Unlike New Orleans, the damage that Bush has done to America *ISN'T*
physical and can't be fixed with bricks, mortar, and spackle. The
damage that Bush has done to America is our global reputation. The
damage that Bush has done to America is the driving off of our friends
and allies. The damage that Bush has done to America is the driving
of a monumental wedge between many different groups of Americans.

None of this will heal quickly. Some of it (such as how the Arab
world views us) may not heal in centuries or even millenia.

Bush's damage is long, long lasting and he mayvery well have destroyed
America forever.

Tesha

[They Live]

13. We're ALL going to need a decade...

...to UNDO all the crap that B*shco has pushed through, if Mother Earth will allow us a second chance.

[NOLADEM]

14. He's Right (sarcasm)

He's right.

2 years left of him doing nothing, and 8 years of a Democratic Administration to help New Orleans back to its feet.

Broken clock is right twice a day, and all that.

[Rex]

15. No you can't rebuild buildings, all you can do is make sure Cheney

Rummy and who knows who else gets to steal by 'proxy' as much as they can for the BFEE. Everyone knows it, even the freeptards.

[uppityperson]

16. Well, buildings can be rebuilt, with assitance. So how about that W?

How about freeing up some of the money, and getting more money to the people who need it to actually rebuild those buildings?

[MasonJar]

17. Well, at least 21/2 unless we can impeach his ass! He just does

NOT get it. He is doing nothing for New Orleans, and the US citizenry does not like it. What a knothead.

[Wednesdays]

18. Yeah, and YOU may need a decade

or three or five...in the slammer!

:mad:

[BenDavid]

19. Hell! America will need

more than a decade to get over the bush presidency.

[Bobbieo]

20. Will New Orleans last a decade

with Global Warming, Rising Sea levels and more powerful hurricanes on the horizon?

[Tesha]

21. Face it: NOLA as we knew it *AIN'T* coming back.

Doesn't make any logical sense (too vulnerable to future
destruction, no matter how much money is pumped into sea
walls)

AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY...

Doesn't make any political sense for Republicans (a blot
of brown Democrats in the midst of White Christian Rep-
ublican Confederistan).

Tesha

[Puglover]

23. Greg Palast did a piece on Democracy Now yesterday.

Apparently the Quarter and Downtown are fine. The low income housing between the two is physically fine however the folks who live there haven't been allowed to move back. I think that sez alot.....and none of it good.

[truthisfreedom]

24. 3 decades in bushco years

will never happen, because the war isn't down there.

[okoboji]

25. what a crime....

During WW2 they managed an engineering marvel, a major advnture road leading to the Yukon and Alaska, but it will a decade for New Orleans......