Word: stormings
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...realize we've got a problem, some good will come out of a truly awful situation." JOHN LAWTON, chairman of Britain's Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, referring to those Americans who deny what he says is the reality of global warming, a byproduct of which may be increased storm intensity...
...Bush's slow response to Katrina was a national disgrace. Officials knew that the storm was coming and that there was going to be massive devastation. The President should have been mobilizing troops and supplies long before the hurricane ever hit. After it struck, poor people died because they had no food and water and no way out. Hospital patients, including infants, died because hospitals had no supplies or power. Looting was rampant because troops were slow to be mobilized and there were too few of them. I bet that if Bush felt he needed the military in the Middle...
...Bush is winging it-literally-day by day. As I write this in Colorado Springs, reporters and staff know that we?re bound to Austin today to visit the state?s emergency command center and that we?re scheduled to overnight in San Antonio-close enough to the storm to show Bush cares, far enough away from the action not to get too much in the way. As for when we return to Washington, the White House isn?t saying. Originally, officials said they expected to return on Sunday but there?s now talk that we could stay...
...this is vastly different from how Bush handled Katrina, of course. Indeed, during Bush?s presidency his policy has not been to visit the site of a disaster until well after the storm had passed. The president doesn?t want to get in the way, aides would say. But that was before Katrina and the bipartisan attacks on the federal response to the storm. Now the president is doing everything he can to show he?s on top of the situation. But it may be the case that his actions have an undesired effect-making him look too cloying...
George Bush has become a hurricane hunter. Like those pilots who fly into the storm, Bush has been criss-crossing the country looking for the best ways to show that he?s offering a competent and compassionate response to Hurricanes Rita and Katrina. Yesterday, he cancelled a trip to Texas at the last minute, flying straight to Colorado where he could visit the military?s Northern Command and follow the progress of Rita from there. Apparently the word didn?t reach the rest of the staff so a hundred reporters, including this one, went on to Texas anyway. Bush spoke...