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Published Date: 29 August 2006
US President George Bush said the huge job of rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina was just beginning a year after the massive storm, but expressed hope that the $110 billion (£58bn) of help sent from Washington would be enough.
Bush yesterday returned to the scene of the storm's devastation in Biloxi, Mississippi.

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  • Last Updated: 29 August 2006 9:09 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Hurricane Katrina
 
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Firozali A.Mulla MBA PhD,

Dar-Es-Salaam Tanzania 29/08/2006 13:31:32

It is too late and guess how many will come back to the already looted town. Another danger is the leeves are still not the sure scured the way I read the reports. there is a doubt and more typhoons on the way would scare the to be comers back.
Mr. Bush paid a lot attention to IRAQ, GAZA, AFGHNIATAN and left the USA roof leaking. That is not a sane or a mututers idea. Al Gore has the greenery pictiures to show and Carter has said Mr. Blaire was too hasty to follow USA. Does that explain anything to us and insiders.

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J. A.,

31/08/2006 16:32:00

Again the non-cowboy shows himself no cattle and all hat. That he consistently talks through it is the most consistent thing about his administration.

In the words of a U. S. hamburger advertisement years back, "Where's the beef?"

From Ronald Reagan on U. S. voters have been choosing presidents for projection of image rather than performance in office, which however well if it occurs is incidental.

And for making themselves feel good ... The American people don't need religion these days to be their opium -- or, to update perhaps, cocaine. They have the presidency. Tax-benefited deep pockets are plenty happy to pay for the habit through campaign contributions, to rifle the house further while the occupants snort and snore.

So long as the current occupant of the Oval Office remains in it, we can be sure of seeing more staging of scenes -- like the one on floodlit Jackson Square in speech to nation a year ago and this one now in Biloxi -- than restoration of the Crescent City and the rest of the 900,000 square miles Katrina savaged.

Katrina alone -- not to mention the lesser but also devastating Rita weeks later -- is the greatest disaster of nature in the country's history. It alone -- not to mention the human savagery of the 9/11 attacks the Bush administration allowed, at best through negligence -- called for a greatness in leadership to match.

Bush, even with minions, has not provided it. I wonder simply whether he would have been up even to normal times, the attempt to ensure which I would like to think is one of the burdens of the office that all prosper in peace and safety.

Bush's attempts to compensate for or distract from his inadequacies through abnormal provocation as in Iraq are not just futile. They have been and are a compounding of disaster into one massive package which is his now going-on six-year administration that even in completion stands to be his enduring legacy. The da


 

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