A rejected draft of Bush's speech:
it was important for the Iraqi people
of New Orleans to know after three
hundred years of
existencewar that "America will not abandon them after we have come this far."
I traveled to New OrleansBaghdad to personally show our nation's commitment to a our precious heritagefree Iraq, because it is vital for the people of LouisianaIraqi people to know with certainty that America will not abandon them after we have come this far," Bush said in the radio address.
"The challenges that remain in New OrleansIraq are serious.
From 6/16/06 BATON ROUGE -- Fifty-seven percent of south Louisiana residents displaced by 2005's two devastating hurricanes say they're likely to return home, although many were skeptical or uninformed about ongoing rebuilding plans. . .
"The worse you were affected, the less likely you are to believe it is fair," said Rather, who also speculated that many displaced people also had less information about local and state rebuilding plans and, therefore, more skepticism.
Rather [CEO of Collective Strength] said that the interviews indicated that for people outside Louisiana who lacked access to the Internet that obtaining information about activities in the area was very difficult. The report suggests that the LRA put particular effort into reaching out to these people, building a database of known evacuees and working with church groups and other organizations to contact more people.
. . .
The survey found that the 864 African-American respondents were more likely to have experienced the most negative consequences of the storms, with 23 percent saying they had lost a job and 13 percent no longer having health insurance because of the storm. In comparison, 13 percent of white respondents lost employment because of the storm, while 4.6 percent lost health insurance coverage.
Getting an adequate response to the survey was a challenge, particularly from displaced people outside Louisiana, Rather said. To get an evacuee snapshot, the researchers conducted 200 telephone interviews with people currently living in Atlanta and Austin, Texas. The contact information for those people was obtained from local government sources, Rather said.
The researchers also utilized more traditional, random polling methods through 1,000 phone interviews conducted across south Louisiana, which was supplemented by 1,300 interviews on one of the state's Web sites, www.louisianarebuilds.info.
Rather said that although the Internet interviews and phone calls to out-of-state evacuees were obtained through untraditional methods, she had confidence in the poll results, particularly because the 1,000 random calls provided a strong base for the survey.
*OKAY, to BE FAIR, Presnit Bush flew into New Orleans on June Tenth and promised all sorts of monies.* He vowed to rebuild the levees and not let those nasty congresspeople cut the monies for levees.
That's his schtick. Show up and vow not to allow anyone to cut the funds.
So really, the basic questions that remain are
What funds? How many generations does he plan to rob for these ten-minute fly-by promises he's making?
When's he going to fly into Afghanistan and make his speech?
Has he started his Promise to Rebuild Iran Speech yet?