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I'm sorry for being overwrought -- your opinion is not bullshit and the fact that search and rescues teams can't get in isn't either.  In my anguish I put that out there and didn't make clear what it was aimed at -- the reports and excuses that this is all just chaos and that no one understood what was going on.  The whole... phoney stance that this is some unforeseen catastrophe that we're simply reacting to, dealing with as best we can.

I'm so sorry it seemed aimed at you.  It was not.

And I do think we should be getting worked up.  We cannot let them off the hook.  Even now, it is not too late to do some things.  It may not be productive for other countries to send teams, but they should be aware of what's happening here and, as a global community, denounce this.  Bring every political pressure to bear to make us do the right thing.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes

by Izzy (izzy at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 01:52:08 PM EST
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I completely agree with you. I am angry as well. I am also very scared about what this means for our country. I am really afraid that our government has perpetrated a great big sham and that we are not equipped to cope with the future at all. If New Orleans is a test, we have failed it miserably.
by Upstate NY on Thu Sep 1st, 2005 at 02:14:29 PM EST
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