There are still portions of the 9th Ward in New Orleans that have not been searched for dead bodies.
That's right. There are still dead bodied unrecovered in New Orleans. In April. Of the following year.
Linked article includes links to supporting sources.
How are things going in New Orleans? Not good. It's easy to forget about the situation, but it'll take years to clean up the city.
The cost to rebuild New Orleans' levee system has tripled to $10 billion. With the hurricane season right around the corner, New Orleans is basically unprotected.
Nice comparison of quotes from Dubya played against the reality that the Republicans have forced on the US, Iraq, and the entire world.
Video of Dubya being warned about the consequences that he said no one anticipated.
Includes links to related resources.
A common mantra of the Dubya administration regarding Katrina and the devastation of New Orleans is that no one anticipated the flooding and they didn't get good enough information on the severity to allow them to act.
Well, they did. Before Katrina made landfall. It's on video.
Concise run-down of everything that's going wrong for the Republicans, including: approval ratings, the budget, the economy, energy costs, Katrina, Medicare, Homeland security, illegal domestic spying, Iraq, and terrorism and lack of stability in the Middle East.
Whew! Is there anything they haven't screwed up?
Overview of FEMA failures regarding Katrina and the upcoming House Investigative Committee report.
The Committee, made entirely of Republicans, is still expected to ravage the administration's response to the disaster.
New Orleans is so strapped for resources that they're seeking aid from other countries.
That sort of officially makes the US a 3rd world country.
More lies from Dubya and his corrupt administration. These focus on Katrina, Iraq, and 9/11.
E-mails sent by Brown before, during, and after Katrina show he didn't have a clue about how bad things were.
Dubya and others have gone on about how the concentration of National Guard troops in Iraq has nothing to do with the slow response to the devestation in the wake of Katrina, claiming that there are plenty of troops available to handle both.
Apparently, the troops aren't the problem. The lack of equipment is, with state-side National Guard troops having only 34 percent of their essential equipment.
Who says so? The GAO, that's who.
Detailed account of how the Bush administration moved needed funds away from projects like shoring up New Orleans' levee system and towards the rich and misguided wars.
While things like the levees are always underfunded, regardless of who occupies the White House, Dubya takes underfunding to a whole new low.
Republicans are using relief measures for the hurricane-ravaged Gulf coast to achieve a broad range of conservative economic and social policies, including suspending labor friendly rules and waiving some affirmative-action rules.
Honestly, how much lower can they sink?
Mid-September poll numbers for Dubya:
57% disapprove of Dubya's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
67% disapprove of his handling of the War on Iraq.
59% considered the invasion of Iraq a mistake.
63% want to see U.S. troops withdrawn from Iraq, either partially or wholly.
63% disapprove of Dubya's handling of the economy.
Finally, 58% disapprove of his overall performance in office.
In addition to realizing what a pitiful failure he his, more and more folks are realizing he's also a jerk:
51% did not consider him strong and decisive.
50% would not call him honest.
56% percent said he didn't care about people like them. (The number is probably much higher for black folks.)
More stories about the incompetence of the Bush administration in preparing for and dealing with the devestation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Buses were available, but the Bushies had, of course, contracted it out to other imcompentents. They, in turn, contracted out. And they contracted it out. And nothing actually worked.
How clueless can Republicans be? DeLay ask evacuated kids whether it was like being at camp. "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?"
No! It's no damn fun at all! (Unless you went to a camp where corpses floated by in the streets.)
Video of Bush supporter Ret. Lt. Col. Ralph Peters ripping Duyba a new one.
Even the right is starting to catch onto the incompetence of their leader.
Cops in New Orleans suburb Gretna forced survivors back into New Orleans.
Evil and inhumane.
First-hand description of life in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. Particularly harrowing is the description of the actions of the Gretna sheriffs, threatening to shoot folks attempting to flee New Orleans on foot.
Execution would not be an unjust penalty for those sherriffs.
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