Another Deadly Presidential Lie

Today is August 31, 2005. The city of New Orleans flooded when flood wall holding back Lake Pontchartrain gave way during Hurricane Katrina. The dreaded scenario that had been projected for years at academic conferences on computer models and animated simulations of what would happen if a major hurricane hit southeastern Louisiana was real.

A hurricane striking New Orleans was listed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency before 9/11 as one of the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America along with a terrorist attack on New York and a major earthquake in San Francisco . But even with this knowledge, the Bush administration cut their budget in New Orleans three years in a row. The President had other priorities to deal with such as sending National Guard troops many of who volunteered for the National Guard to serve in natural disasters like this one, to Iraq.

As early as 1995, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers knew the levees and the flood wall needed fixing to withstand a category 5 hurricane and that the entire region had become an environmental disaster because the levees disrupted natural flooding needed to build up the coast line. New Orleans had become vulnerable to hurricanes because millions of acres of coastal wetlands have been lost in the past seven decades. The bayous and patches of swamps south of the city worked as a buffer by absorbing flood water that a hurricane pushes ashore. Environmentalists said that the levees actually "starved our wetlands to death" because before they were built, when the river flooded its banks and washed through the bayous and swamps, it left a fine-grained silt that nourished plants. This natural flooding kept the land just above sea level. With the levees in place, the precious silt is washed into the Gulf of Mexico causing ecological destruction to the region.

Now there were breaches in the flood wall that flooded the bowl shaped city. The water had nowhere to go. With dead bodies, dead animals, human sewage, oil and gas line spills, poisonous snakes, and other toxic chemicals and industrial wastes in the water, it has become a cesspool.

However, on ABC-TV's Today Show , President Bush said he understood the "frustration" of New Orleans residents, but said, "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." Doesn't that sound like another lie? How much longer will the American public listen to his lies? Does anyone believe him now?

On Tuesday, while New Orleans flooded from Hurricane Katrina, President Bush played a guitar on a stage in San Diego . Earlier that day standing against the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, he gave a speech where he finally admitted that the reason why the US is occupying Iraq is to protect Iraq 's vast oil fields so that they will not fall under the control of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida forces. He said that if these terrorists gain control over the oil fields, they could fund their ambitions and turn Iraq into a training grounds for terrorists. They could gain recruits by saying that the pull out of US troops and coalition forces in Iraq was a historic victory for their cause. Finally the truth is out. Iraq is a resource war, a resource that the American economy is addicted to.

The members of the Louisiana National Guard, 3,000 of them, watched the disaster destroying their city while they were thousands of miles away on tour in Iraq as the day brought the highest death toll in Baghdad since the US occupation began. 1,000 died in a human stampede on a bridge caused by the fear of a suicide bomber.

The noble cause that Cindy Sheehan had been waiting for outside Bush's vacation house in Crawford , TX the month of August had come out. The nearly 2,000 American soldiers who have died in Iraq died to protect black gold. Is it any wonder why President Bush has not urged his twin daughters or any other member of his family to fight in the Operation Iraqi Freedom when it all boils down to defending Iraqi oil fields?

How telling it is that the people who could not escape from New Orleans before the hurricane hit were those who didn't have the black gold or the automobiles to drive themselves to safety. These are the same poor families whose sons and daughters are recruited for the war in Iraq to protect the rich white man's American dream, a dream that doesn't allow looting even when one has no clean water, food or dry clothes. It is a dream that allows an army to travel thousands of miles to a foreign land to rob Iraqis of their oil fields.

There are a number of important messages to learn from this tragedy.

First, that the government which is made up of mostly upper class folks, doesn't care for the poor the same way it cares of the rich. In fact, they barely care for them at all, as we have witnessed Congress continuing to ignore the homeless crisis in the United States.
Second, the government failed to listen to scientific knowledge about the environmental crisis that was occurring in the delta ecosystem. It failed take actions to restore the ecosystem in order to save the people even if it meant moving New Orleans to safer ground.
Third, that the war in Iraq only reflects the urban warfare occurring against the poor of the United States.
Fourth, that it is extremely unwise to rebuild New Orleans in the same pattern of development and energy sources that caused global warming that affected the intensity of hurricane activity in the Gulf.
Fifth, the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico and the destruction of the Persian Gulf are connected to the same source of presidentialirresponsibility and lack of wisdom that has destroyed two cities, Baghdad and New Orleans.
Sixth, without wise leadership, people in power don't have the moral strength to go the roots of our global crisis and face the necessary changes that need to be made for our long-term survival. These people need to be impeached and those who have committed war crimes should be put on trial at the International Court of Justice.
Seventh, it will take visionary cocreative leadership to overcome our life-threatening problems and the Bush administration has proved it is not composed of visionary thinkers and doers.

Never before has the need for a lovolution, a non-violent world-wide change of heart necessary for repatterning of cities so called for. The mobilization of peace workers everywhere bringing forth a new blueprint for an ecological city design is vital to the health and safety of our planetary future.

	Another Deadly Presidential Lie
	Today is August 31, 2005. The city of New Orleans flooded when flood wall holding back Lake Pontchartrain gave way during Hurricane Katrina. The dreaded scenario that had been projected for years at academic conferences on computer models and animated simulations of what would happen if a major hurricane hit southeastern Louisiana was real. A hurricane striking New Orleans was listed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency before 9/11 as one of the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America along with a terrorist attack on New York and a major earthquake in San Francisco . But even with this knowledge, the Bush administration cut their budget in New Orleans three years in a row. The President had other priorities to deal with such as sending National Guard troops many of who volunteered for the National Guard to serve in natural disasters like this one, to Iraq. As early as 1995, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers knew the levees and the flood wall needed fixing to withstand a category 5 hurricane and that the entire region had become an environmental disaster because the levees disrupted natural flooding needed to build up the coast line. New Orleans had become vulnerable to hurricanes because millions of acres of coastal wetlands have been lost in the past seven decades. The bayous and patches of swamps south of the city worked as a buffer by absorbing flood water that a hurricane pushes ashore. Environmentalists said that the levees actually "starved our wetlands to death" because before they were built, when the river flooded its banks and washed through the bayous and swamps, it left a fine-grained silt that nourished plants. This natural flooding kept the land just above sea level. With the levees in place, the precious silt is washed into the Gulf of Mexico causing ecological destruction to the region. Now there were breaches in the flood wall that flooded the bowl shaped city. The water had nowhere to go. With dead bodies, dead animals, human sewage, oil and gas line spills, poisonous snakes, and other toxic chemicals and industrial wastes in the water, it has become a cesspool. However, on ABC-TV's Today Show , President Bush said he understood the "frustration" of New Orleans residents, but said, "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." Doesn't that sound like another lie? How much longer will the American public listen to his lies? Does anyone believe him now? On Tuesday, while New Orleans flooded from Hurricane Katrina, President Bush played a guitar on a stage in San Diego . Earlier that day standing against the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan, he gave a speech where he finally admitted that the reason why the US is occupying Iraq is to protect Iraq 's vast oil fields so that they will not fall under the control of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida forces. He said that if these terrorists gain control over the oil fields, they could fund their ambitions and turn Iraq into a training grounds for terrorists. They could gain recruits by saying that the pull out of US troops and coalition forces in Iraq was a historic victory for their cause. Finally the truth is out. Iraq is a resource war, a resource that the American economy is addicted to. The members of the Louisiana National Guard, 3,000 of them, watched the disaster destroying their city while they were thousands of miles away on tour in Iraq as the day brought the highest death toll in Baghdad since the US occupation began. 1,000 died in a human stampede on a bridge caused by the fear of a suicide bomber. The noble cause that Cindy Sheehan had been waiting for outside Bush's vacation house in Crawford , TX the month of August had come out. The nearly 2,000 American soldiers who have died in Iraq died to protect black gold. Is it any wonder why President Bush has not urged his twin daughters or any other member of his family to fight in the Operation Iraqi Freedom when it all boils down to defending Iraqi oil fields? How telling it is that the people who could not escape from New Orleans before the hurricane hit were those who didn't have the black gold or the automobiles to drive themselves to safety. These are the same poor families whose sons and daughters are recruited for the war in Iraq to protect the rich white man's American dream, a dream that doesn't allow looting even when one has no clean water, food or dry clothes. It is a dream that allows an army to travel thousands of miles to a foreign land to rob Iraqis of their oil fields. There are a number of important messages to learn from this tragedy. First, that the government which is made up of mostly upper class folks, doesn't care for the poor the same way it cares of the rich. In fact, they barely care for them at all, as we have witnessed Congress continuing to ignore the homeless crisis in the United States. Second, the government failed to listen to scientific knowledge about the environmental crisis that was occurring in the delta ecosystem. It failed take actions to restore the ecosystem in order to save the people even if it meant moving New Orleans to safer ground. Third, that the war in Iraq only reflects the urban warfare occurring against the poor of the United States. Fourth, that it is extremely unwise to rebuild New Orleans in the same pattern of development and energy sources that caused global warming that affected the intensity of hurricane activity in the Gulf. Fifth, the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico and the destruction of the Persian Gulf are connected to the same source of presidentialirresponsibility and lack of wisdom that has destroyed two cities, Baghdad and New Orleans. Sixth, without wise leadership, people in power don't have the moral strength to go the roots of our global crisis and face the necessary changes that need to be made for our long-term survival. These people need to be impeached and those who have committed war crimes should be put on trial at the International Court of Justice. Seventh, it will take visionary cocreative leadership to overcome our life-threatening problems and the Bush administration has proved it is not composed of visionary thinkers and doers. Never before has the need for a lovolution, a non-violent world-wide change of heart necessary for repatterning of cities so called for. The mobilization of peace workers everywhere bringing forth a new blueprint for an ecological city design is vital to the health and safety of our planetary future.
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