Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach Him Now

Kevin Drum reports on Senator Landrieu:

The Washington Monthly: BEHIND THE CURTAIN....George Bush's photo-op tour of New Orleans yesterday has apparently driven Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu over the edge. Today she blasted FEMA for its feeble response to Hurricane Katrina and Bush for his phony, stage managed promises of action:

I understand that the U.S. Forest Service had water-tanker aircraft available to help douse the fires raging on our riverfront, but FEMA has yet to accept the aid. When Amtrak offered trains to evacuate significant numbers of victims -- far more efficiently than buses -- FEMA again dragged its feet. Offers of medicine, communications equipment and other desperately needed items continue to flow in, only to be ignored by the agency.

But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment. The good and decent people of southeast Louisiana and the Gulf Coast -- black and white, rich and poor, young and old -- deserve far better from their national government.

Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach him now.

And from the New Orleans Times-Picayune:

NOLA.com: Times-Picayune Breaking News Weblog: Bush visit halts food delivery: By Michelle Krup Staff writer: Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush's visit to New Orleans, officials said.

The provisions, secured by U.S. Rep. Charlie Melancon, D-Napoleonville, and state Agriculture Commissioner Bob Odom, baked in the afternoon sun as Bush surveyed damage across southeast Louisiana five days after Katrina made landfall as a Category 4 storm, said Melancon's chief of staff, Casey O'Shea.

"We had arrangements to airlift food by helicopter to these folks, and now the food is sitting in trucks because they won't let helicopters fly," O'Shea said Friday afternoon. The food was expected to be in the hands of storm survivors after the president left the devastated region Friday night, he said.

Comments

[Jonathan W. King]

Senator Landrieu writes:
>
> Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became
> apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a
> Presidential photo opportunity;

So Laura Rozen passed on news from a Dutch friend watching German TV:

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/002485.html

OK, so now this is third or fourth hand, and so the factoid needs to be verified, but symbolically, doing "photo opp only" food distribution to hungry or starving people is waaay worse in my book than posing heavy equipment by a broken levee. The intended deceit here is so massive and collaboration required to pull it off is so universal, that I think the word "Soviet" covers it quite nicely.

This is precisely the kind of thing you would see all the time in the Soviet Union. Only our lighting and camerawork are better. But even if the video is a bit funky or grainy, I'd like to see the German news (ZDF) version of this posted on the web. That might actually do some good here.

[hdawnmonroe]

You know, It's really sad that americans like you are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and start conversations of impeachment when you yourself have no idea what's actually happening out there. YOUR stupidity rings louder than the actions of the president. Our country has never had to deal with this sort of thing. Hind sight is fifty -fifty. There are alot of things people could have done to help this city before the hurricane. What Fema and the president is facing is so challeging. It's not that they are not allowing the help, they can't get the help in!
What part of NEW ORLEANS is floodoed do these people not understand. And other thing, the people of new orleans need to take responsibilty for there actions in this time of crisis. Instead of worrying about getting out, a lot were making things worse. Wehn you have police people having to worry about looters, people stealuing drugs from the hospitals, getting violent with other victimes, how are they supposed to also then help the organization of evacuees, helping people get in so that these organizations can help.
And another thing. It's not about race! I'm tired as a white person being blamed for our behavior toward blacks. We are all one race that comes from one place. I'm tired of the black organizations caliing all there meetings and making big press releases that only preach about the negativety of our country. If they would get in there and help and work together, they would send out the message to there other fellow blacks and help spread peace. instead they preach negativity, your going to make those people belive that only negetivity works.
GEt off your ass and help rather than hionder! ASSHOLE.

[Dubblblind]

hdawnmonroe, the failure to expose incompetence and insensitivity to the unfolding tragedy only dooms us to experience more of the same, now that's negativity. Being a Bush apologist and supporter and maintainer of his status quo, that's negativity. You need to take a good look in the mirror to see if the last word of your post doesn't apply to you.

[bob h]

Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach him now.

Lets see what Mr. Fitzgerald has for us. Maybe a legal pretext for doing so.

[shah8]

wow, the trolls are out...

guess that means he's really in trouble...

sd, just look at Meet The Press, and then come tell us whatever your week talking points are...

[Ron Sturtevant-Stuart]

"What part of NEW ORLEANS is floodoed do these people not understand."

On Wednesday morning a group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette in the early morning and headed to New Orleans with a police escort from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department. they were turned back by fema

sadly, no one in charge seems to care...

[Sandwichman]

hdawnmonroe wrote, "Hind sight is fifty -fifty."

Wow! I wish I'd said that.

[liberal]

sd wrote, "Look, either you can criticize him for not caring enough to visit, or you can criticize him for visiting and thus mucking up relief efforts. But you can't do both."

Logical fallacy: false dichotomy.

Bush could have visited *and* not mucked up relief efforts, at least insofar as not insisting (or his handlers not insisting) that effort and energy be expended on erecting stuff merely for the purposes of a photo-op.

It would be wrong to criticize him for not showing up and then, when he does show up, criticizing (say) extra efforts by the Secret Service to secure the area he's in.

But the waste expended on Bush's visit went beyond that.

[Larry Y.]

Impeach Bush?

It's time to call on Bush/Cheney to resign, and appoint McCain/Gore as their successors.

McCain/Gore can depoliticize the executive, restore congression & minority party checks and balances, and restore American confidence in the government.

[Derelict]

Even though it's been six days since the storm hit, and even though there are still large groups of people who have not yet received food or water, and even though the death toll has been raised by a factor of two or three because of the astounding incompetence of Bush and FEMA--it's nice to know that our president and his staff are hard at work on what REALLY matters in this hour of crisis:

Fabricating spin to deflect blame away from the president and his cronies.

As for you, SD, I suggest you might want to read some of the blogs--or maybe even a newspaper. Nobody complained that Bush was heartless for not leaving Crawford--because Bush wasn't in Crawford. He was cutting John McCain's birthday cake, strumming a guitar with Gary Wills, making speeches about VJ Day and how wonderful his MediCare drug bill is. Nobody said he was heartless--they complained because he's completely clueless.

[JR]

Let's not sugarcoat this. President Bush is guilty of destroying FEMA by turning it into a destination for political patronage, and of criminal negligence for his stupefying incompetence and inattention to the unfolding disaster in New Orleans.

He should resign. He is unfit to lead.

[matt]

The scary thing is that people are actaully believing some of the nonsense being aired by the media and are blaming the disaster on people who are suffering.

God forbid they should atually blame the president they supported so strongly. And to hear them saying that the people aren't refugees because they are Americans is just sad. Try telling them that Jose Padilla isn't a disappeared person because he's an American citizen or try showing them where it states that the president can revoke the citizenship of any person he declares an enemy combatant and their eyes glaze over, making that "fifty-fifty" hindsight so much more difficult to discern.

Cognitive dissonance has become more powerful a drug than vicodin or oxycontin. If it doesn't compute, people just check their internal checklist, pop another prozac or whatever, sing a few bars of the national anthem, and bend over.

[tom f]

hdawnmonroe:

"It's not that they are not allowing the help, they can't get the help in! What part of NEW ORLEANS is floodoed do these people not understand."

I for one, am glad persons such as yourself come here to challenge posts. But the challenge is easily met. I can't conclude that a flooded metropolis necessarily makes aid to dry "islands" logistically difficult to the degree we've seen this week.

For one, aid is getting there now, so we know it can be done and suspect it could have been done earlier.

Sat. AM on NPR Weekend Edition, a historian who wrote a book on the 1927 Mississippi Flood stated that Sec. of Commerce Herbert Hoover was more effective and timely at delivering aid to thousands of people in the LA delta stranded on levees than we saw this week in 2005. Ya know what he did? He used boats!!!

Maybe the logistics were simpler, but it's not apparent why they would be. In fact, you would suspect the opposite given our greater resources in all spheres of disaster relief.

Whatdyathink?,

respectfully asshollish,

[Larry Y.]

Because when I have an employee whose job it is to take care of people, and he fucks up, I want him fired.

Because when the president promised that homeland security was the issue, and his concern, and he proved himself incompetent -- the only positive thing to do is to get rid of him.

Up here, 10 miles from the ghosts of the World Trade Center, I can't do anything for what's happening in New Orleans. I can do my damnest to make sure that when an earthquake strikes Los Angeles or a terrorist bombs Chicago, there's a president who understands that his job is to save lives.

One simple question: When the word was coming that a Cat 5 might hit NO, what did the president do? Did he make sure that everything was in place? Did he make sure that FEMA knew how to talk to DOD knew how to talk to the State?

Because that's what an executive is supposed to be doing.

If Bush and Cheney can't do that -- and there are dead babies in New Orleans because they can't -- they need to resign and let leaders willing to put the country first take over.

I nominate McCain & Gore, but would love to see a debate on others.

[bcinaz]

Wow, welcome to Brad DeLongs House of Trolls. You know that the best defense against a peak behind the Wizards Curtain is an ad hominem attack on Toto. There's no denying that the Bush advance team set up fake backdrops to convince the world that cronyism isn't bad government, but we're the assholes for pointing that out.

Bonus Coverage; mysteriously some in the MSM claim that the scales have fallen from their eyes and they are no longer blind.

[jerry]

The list today from Atrios and JMM should not be forgotten. The attempts at hand-waving to shift responsibility. The claim from Landrieu that repairs were faked for a photo-op. The claims from just about everyone that FEMA locked people in the shelters, fed people when they weren't, abandoned people they said they were in the process of saving, sent gas and water away, turned down foreign help, ....

This is incompetence and negligence AT BEST. It is criminal negligence and a conspiracy to deprive of equal rights and more at worse.

This is at least on a par with Plame, the outing of an agent and her networks, and the ruining of our WMD intelligence for political reasons.

This needs to be shoved down the throats of the Dems and the McCains and the "adults" to be fairly investigated AND prosecuted. If Hillary or Harry or Nancy won't move for an investigation or independent counsel, then I move we shed Hillary and Harry and Nancy. (I must admit, I am still confused as to why Barbara Boxer didn't meet with Cindy.)

(and this is the "jerry" that often posts in here, not the "Jerry" above -- I for one, welcome our new jerry modulo "j" congruence set overlords)

[w]

Bush must resign for the good of the country.

Impeachment would take too long.

Pass it on.

[th]

Why is everyone so surprised by the weak federal response to the hurricane? This is perfectly in line with their small government, "starve the beast" mentality. The Republicans are doing their best to make sure that the Federal government is no longer capable to act as caretaker to its citizens. We had all better get used to it.

[Derelict]

"Clinton started the privatization of FEMA..."

Got a cite for that?

[jerry]

And the reason this is vital to investigate is not just to find out what went wrong here, but to ensure that the country is prepared for the next tragedy, be it earthquake, ice storm, hurricane, tornado, dirty bomb, plague, chemical weapons, or nuke.

We must find out what happened to our Homeland security.

[CalDem]

Who will be the first Dem Senator to call for his resignation Dems must be united and call for Bush's resignation, nothing else is acceptable.

[JR]

This is not a question of institutional capabilties. FEMA can do the job, it just needs a little political leadership. Compare the current debacle with its handling of Hurricane Frances:

http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease_print.fema?id=13745

Read the press release from last year, then re-read the catalogue of excuses from the last few days. It is astonishing that the administration continues to claim that (a) nobody could see this coming, and (b) they couldn't have prepositioned relief equipment and supplies. This is a story of failed leadership, pure and simple.

One other thing. Congress needs to change its current legislative priorities. Rebuilding New Orleans and the Gulf Coast will not come cheap, and we have to take care of up to a million new jobless and homeless Americans. Hi-income tax cuts, tougher bankruptcy requirements, and pork-laden energy and transportation bills are unacceptable.

[Larry Y.]

It's not enough to call for Bush's resignation.

We need a new government. We need to put forward names that a clear majority of Americans can rally behind.

I say it again: We need President McCain. We need Vice President Gore.

[RT]

Where do we find one stinkin' Dem Congressperson with the guts to file an impeachment resolution?

Pathetic bunch of wimps. Maybe it really IS time to start up a new center-left political party, because this one doesn't have the courage of its convictions. When it's got convictions, that is.

[JR]

Sorry to harp on this, but it bears repeating.

When the "Katrina Commission" issues its definitive history, we'll hear alot about dysfunctional bureaucracies and a stunning lack of inter-agency coordination. The groundwork is already being laid for these conclusions, much as it was before the 9/11 Commission published its report. The more we discuss the Byzantine protocols of large organizations, the more we are led to believe that the problems that befell the federal response can only be solved through massive reorganization.

This is, of course, nonsense.

FEMA was wholly capable of responding. As I posted elsewhere, it did a fine job last year preparing for Hurricane Frances. Among other things, it pre-positioned food and water, troops, and housing for evacuees. (See for yourself: http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease_print.fema?id=13745) The difference then was that the president was attentive and FEMA was under close scrutiny.

The GOP is right: leadership matters.

[Ralph]

"Where do we find one stinkin' Dem Congressperson with the guts to file an impeachment resolution?". I would vote for John Conyers, who had the guts to hold an impromptu hearing on the Downing Street Memo, in which Cindy Sheehan was first exposed to a national audience.

[save_the_rustbelt]

Incompetence is not grounds for impeachment.

Besides, there is Darth Cheney behind the throne.

If the Dems can't make huge strides in 2006, they never will.

Glad it is a holiday I need a drink (my wife says she needs a drink, which is notable since she doesn't drink).

[monkyboy]

You don't get a second chance to be a first responder.

Sounds like a lot of groups let FEMA tell them they couldn't help and sat still including The Red Cross, the military, Amtrack, etc. If these groups knew HS and FEMA were screwed up they should have gone in and helped anyway and dealt with the consequences later.

[Matt McIrvin]

Incompetence is not grounds for impeachment.

Maybe it ought to be. There's such a thing as criminal negligence, right?

[a]

Any lawyers here who can discuss criminal negligence?

Never mind, it was a long shot.

[Melissa Del-Valle]

How does the United States have so much money to "help re-build" Iraq, after a war that we still are in, have not won, and had no business initiating!!!

What a disgrace to live in this country. What an embarrassment to say that I am an American.

We need to really look at who is running these different organizations that let the ball drop. And we definitely need another PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!

[Larry Y.]

Impeachment is meaningless because Cheney is part of the problem. There's no value in offering an impeachment resolution without the vision of what would follow.

So I say again: McCain/Gore. Because as Phil Ochs said, "This country is too young to die."

[liberal]

Larry Y. wrote, "It's time to call on Bush/Cheney to resign, and appoint McCain/Gore as their successors."

You're kidding, right?

As Bob Somerby notes, McCain is much beloved by the press. That doesn't mean he should command our respect.

For starters, he firmly backed Bush's disaster-ridden venture into Iraq.

[liberal]

hdawnmonroe wrote, "You know, It's really sad that americans like you are so quick to jump on the bandwagon and start conversations of impeachment when you yourself have no idea what's actually happening out there."

If you've read this blog before, you'd know that this is just the tip of the iceberg of the things Bush has done that Brad (rightfully) complains about.

"Our country has never had to deal with this sort of thing. Hind sight is fifty -fifty."

That misses the point, which is that Bush cut the funding for FEMA, destroyed its institutional morale by emphasizing response to terrorism above all else, and stacking it at the top with folks who were both incompetents *and* cronies.

[bcinaz]

Larry Y. Leave aside the fact that absent an election, we do not want the Congress "Appointing Presidents", McCain is no better than Bush. The only thing they disagree on is Global Climate Disaster. McCain is for the War, he's for the plan to dismantle Soc. Sec., he wants to teach ID in Biology class.

If we don't want to end up with President Dick Halliburton than we have to get through the next 13 months, take back both houses of congress and then win the white house in 08.

Simple. But not McCain!

BC in AZ

[a]

"Impeachment is meaningless because Cheney is part of the problem. "

Yeah, but see, Darth Dick'em's first act in office would be to lead a charity walkathon on his hands and knees from Baton Rouge to NO.

As for Cheney's replacement--Hastert--a couple of chocolate chip cookies would do.

Please pass the goodies.

[Mizzike]

An old joke around Washington has it that it is impossible to get fired from a government job (even for gross incompetence). Therefore I think all these calls for Bush's impeachment are totally unfounded.

[Mizzike]

Regarding JR's comment about the federal government's relatively high state of preparedness immediately before Hurricane Frances:

I'm not one to start conspiracy theories or anything, and I have absolutely no tangible evidence to support this notion, but...

does anyone think that politics played a role in the intensity of the Administration's responses? The Administration had A LOT more to lose last summer--namely a reelection campaign and Florida's electoral votes--than this summer. Just wondering.

[Larry Y.]

I assume that those of you talking about taking back the Congress and the White House don't live near any possible disaster zones or terrorist targets.

Because one thing is clear: Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about those of us living in Democratic cities, be they New York, New Orleans, New Haven, Los Angeles, San Francisco or Berkeley.

It's time to face the facts that Americans are for the war in Iraq, for teaching Creationism, and all the other idiocies. Most of them, though, do want a FEMA that works.

It's long past time to look for the ideal; we've ceded too much ground, ideological and media, to the fascists and their enablers. The question is, will we have someone in the White House for whom the notion of planning, of any sort, is not anathema?

[Ralph]

I saw Mary Landrieu's remarks on a helicopter tour of the whole affected area with George Stefanopoulos (This Week with George) and cannot help but agree with her especially at the scene of the 17th Street levee break. This was actually the second time I had seen this and was already surprised the first time to see only a single lonely earth mover in operation. This suggests to me that the drop in funding for levee work by OMB last year played a significant role in the disaster.

[sm]

So are all you people calling for impeachment or resignation doing anything more than write about it in blogs and hope that God will see it there?

[donmaj]

Ralph: The 17th St. levee did not fail. Competent Civil Engineers will see that a "flood wall" built atop the levee failed. The design of the flood wall's stability needs review. Walls should not topple.

Sivil Injuneeer

[dragan]

When Bush pitches, McCain is the Frist to catch.
Al Gore ( and Kerry, Biden, Loserman, too )
had their dog-and-pony show on the road already.
Let them rest.
Remember, "it's hard work" out there.

[Esq.]

"Any lawyers here who can discuss criminal negligence?"

Criminal negligence is not a crime by itself. It is the mens rea element in some (usually lesser) crimes. In other words, Criminal Negligence can sometimes substitute for intent.

[Ed Marshall]

McCain?

Do you realize that was the pick of all the neocons for the primary in 2000? I know the media love him for his "maverick" stunts, but McCain is way, way, nuttier than Bush. Giving that man the keys to the military would move the possiblility of a war with probable nuclear exchanges with China to something like 100%, I'll keep Bush thank you very, very, much.

[Barkley Rosser]

All these folks who want to have Bush resign or be impeached. That would give us madman Cheney who has continued to insist that Saddam was behind 9/11. Oh, I know, let us have them both resign. Then we'll have Dennis Hastert who just suggested that New Orleans should be bulldozed. The bench of utter incompetent nincompoops at the top of our government is unfortunately very thick.

[don majors]

Flood Wall Design Criteria:

http://www.usace.army.mil/inet/usace-docs/eng-manuals/em1110-2-2502/c-7.pdf#search='flood%20walls'

[J Thomas]

If we could follow the Nixon precedent, and somehow get rid of both Cheney and Bush, we'd have a caretaker government that wouldn't do much.

Having the US government run on autopilot for 2 years would be better than having Bush take initiative.

[gimaha]

Couldn't we just get rid of Micahel Brown and bring back James Lee Witt?

[Morgaine Swann]

I've heard exactly two Democrats criticize the administration on this - Dennis Kucinich and Gen. Wesley Clark. I would give anything for them to get to get together with Al Gore and start providing some actual opposition to this evil mis-administration. The Democratic Party seems to have abandoned us.

[bertram]

FEMA also moved supplies in preparation for Katrina
see
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18461
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18471

The problem was that Kitrina was bigger and New Orleans is a more geographically isolated area. Louisiana National Guard is under the Louisiana governer and she could order it down to New Orleans.
See
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html
where she refused to give up control to Bush.

There is blame all around.

[bad juju]

Is the Government Trying to Hide the True Body Count in New Orleans?

A very troubling development has arisen in the collection of bodies in New Orleans.The company brought in by FEMA and Homeland Security to process the bodies is a company called Kenyon International. Kenyon International is owned by SCI, a major Bush family contributor.

During George W Bush's tenure as Gevernor of Texas, SCI was involved in "FUNERALGATE" -the biggest corpse mishandling scandal in American history, wherein thousands of corpses were allegedly disenterred and haphazardly dumped to make way for new gravesites. Family members of the deceased were shocked to learn that their grandmothers, fathers, sisters etc. were not in burial plots that had been bought for tens of thousands of dollars each, but dumped en masse and left to rot in swamps and mass burial pits. You may remember this...I do, it was on every major news network at the time.

What is not so publicly known, is that at the time, there were rather serious claims made about the complicity and/or direct involvement of the then Governor George Bush and his chief of Staff and future FEMA director Joe Allbaugh in a coverup of the allegations (Yes, the same Joe Allbaugh that brought his college roomate Joe "Drownie" Brown into FEMA, and the same Joe Allbaugh who's consulting company has just scored muti-million dollar no-bid Federal contract to assist in the "cleanup" in New Orleans). There is an ongoing debate regarding the veracity and/or details of the claims involving the then Governor Bush, nevertheless, the appearences aren't kosher. At the end of this article, you'll find links to several news stories detailing some of the allegations and details of the scandal.

Whatever his involvement, George W Bush is fully aware of the matter, as he and Joe Allbaugh were deposed in a whistleblower lawsuit concerning it. SCI ulimately payed out over 100 million dollars to settle claims of wrongdoing. The question the American people should be asking is, why, when there were numerous Doctors and Coroners from around the country who volunteered to process the bodies for free, would the Administration give a no bid contract TO A COMPANY THAT HAS A HISTORY OF "MISHANDLING" BODIES!!!!!!!

Compounding the issue, are the following very troubling and suspicious actions on the part of the Federal Government:

1. The Federal Government's attempt to quash the First Amendment by refusing to grant access to reporters during the collection of bodies even after being ordered to do so by a Federal Judge ruling on a lawsuit brought by CNN;

2. Reports by very reputable reporters such as MSNBC's Brian Williams of law enforecement officials pointing guns at the media on numerous occasions in a blatant attempt to intimidate them AFTER the CNN ruling;

3.The presence of armed mercenaries in New Orleans such as BLACKWATER INTERNATIONAL, who has admittedly recruited war criminals from among Pinochet's secret police and South Africa's apartheid era military officers. When pressed on the issue, Homeland Security denied their presence in New Orleans, while BLACKWATER's website and numerous reports from in the field of the mercenaries being used for "Search and Rescue" teams and "Security" (as readers may remember, these are some of the same types that provided "security' at Abu Grhaib), say otherwise;

4. Reports from among Ham radio operators that emergency radio signals are being jammed with very sophisticated technology form somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as numerous reports from local municipalities, most notably Jefferson Parish in a report which was publicised on national TV that FEMA was cutting phone lines and emergency communications equipment in NEW ORLEANS;

5. Numerous inconsistencies, documented live on National Television, between the Administration's version of what went on on the ground in the Gulf Coast, and what actually happened.

One might ask one's-self, is the same Administration which seemingly lied about Iraq, seemingly lied about the Valerie Plame/Karl Rove scandal, seemingly covered up the Abu Ghraib Scandal, and has already been caught in numerous lies about the Federal response to hurricane Katrina capable of covering it's tracks in the worst loss of life on US soil due to the Federal Governments negligence in US history by manipulating the numders of dead? Sure seems that way to a lot of folks.

Still unsure if the administration is capable of lying? Watch this video:
http://www.tvnewslies.org/images/03102003colincondoleeza.wmv

One thing is certain: President Bush has full knowledge of the allegations made against SCI, the parent company of Kenyon International, and against Joe Allbaugh. The American People and History deserve a better company to faithfully and honestly collect the dead on the sacred dying ground of New Orleans. The American people deserve better than to have a company that employs war criminals patrolling the streets of an American city. This is not Columbia, this is not Iraq, and this is not Chile or South Africa. This is the United States fo America, and regardless of whether or not the government is trying to hide bodies, which is up for debate, the presence of companies such as BLACKWATER and SCI taking part in any way in "recovery efforts" on American soil is sickening and should be shock any American who values Freedom and openness in our Government.
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Update: Since this post was first written, the office of the Governor of Louisiana has taken over the contract with Kenyon International. This action was taken due to Kenyon's threatening to back out of efforts due to foot dragging by FEMA. To be fair, Governor Blanco is most likely not privy to SCI and Kenyon International's seedy past.

Maybe somebody oughta give her a call and tell her.

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Here are a couple of links for reference, there are hundreds more out there:

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/FEMA_outsources_Katrina_body_count_to_firm_implicated_in_bodydumping_scan_0913.html

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/09/08/bush_cohorts_profiteering_at_all_levels.php

http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2005/09/324559.shtml

http://www.blackwaterusa.com/btw2005/archive/090505btw.html

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/04/285253.shtml

http://www.ntimc.org/newswire.php?story_id=902&topic=iraq

http://www.tvnewslies.org/images/03102003colincondoleeza.wmv

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Tape of Colin powell and Condoleza rice clearly stating Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, capability, or will
to threaten the US. The tape was made in Feb 2001

http://www.tvnewslies.org/images/03102003colincondoleeza.wmv

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