From September 02, 2005 on a tiny blog somewhere:
The clatch of partisan critics adds nothing to the relief operations save the sadly predictable and mildly entertaining claims that help was held back because the president wishes not to waste resources on a city that voted overwhelmingly for Kerry. Next thing we'll hear is that Dick Cheney ordered a shadowy group of Army Corps of Engineers to steal into the Big Easy and mine the levees while evacuation operations were diverting attention.
Yesterday, Charles Johnson pointed to this post on Daily Kos:
This from boingboing
10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee Clara Barthelemy: "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed... people are afraid to speak out... everyone who was near there heard the bombings... they bombed seven times. That's why they didn't fix the levees... 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved over human life. A six year old girl was raped in here.. 9 year old boy killed. A man in the shower beaten. No hot food. No help for elderly."
Can I predict psychopathology or what?
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