I have been sick for the past 3 days thinking about the human cost of this tragedy and how it ties into everything else going on in the past few years. Especially after hearing the one man whose wife slipped thru his fingers to his death. I am not sure how I would react if that was my wife , but hearing this man speak has had a dramtic effect on me.
As we have read on these pages, the hurricane itself was not Bush's fault ( altho one could certainly make a strong case that the magnitude of this event has been aided by the misguided enviornmental policies of the past 5 years), but the cost in human death and suffering is a direct result of the misguided war in Iraq and its diversion of funds and first responders ( national guard and equipment) away from the areas hardest hit by Katrina . The horrible Iraq adventure can now be proven , beyond any shadow of a doubt to have made the United States less safe. How many articles on the diversion of the resources away from the levee project and all the other ways in which the saftey of the people has been compromised for big business interests and development will it take for the people of America to finally totally wake up to how these people are, to quote John Edwards driving us "from the edge of greatness to the edge of a cliff"
We can also add to that how the disturbing redistribution of wealth upwards that started during the Reagan era and has escalated during the Bush regime has now helped to cause human death as it seems that almost all of the people that will die from this tragedy were either elderly, poor or african american and unable to leave due to lack of resources.
Lets add to that how many troops are dead, seriously injured both physically and emotionally for life and the unknown thousands of innocent Iraqui civillians that have died. Entire portions of families dead in Iraq for a misguided war of choice,
(where's the NO-ble cause?)
Now lets add to that just how the President spent the days before and immediately after the event at events promting his Social Security sham, playing fake guitar, Bike riding, golfing or what ever WHILE INNOCENT PEOPLE WERE DYING AS A DIRECT RESULT OF HIS ACTIONS. Bush was promoting the Republican agenda rather than protecting Americans. Why do these idiots running our country always have to be reactive rather than proactive to save people?
What kind of callous, cold leader is this? What kind of a country allows this? What kind of people sit back and take it?
I don't know what else to say.
This is my first diary and just had to get this off of my chest in a public forum. thank you