Monday, September 12, 2005
The New Orleans War Zone
Since I couldn't sleep last night, I read about how Blackwater has unleashed their mercenaries on New Orleans. Some have been out of Iraq for 2 weeks. Yes, the killers in the Middle East are now setting up camp in New Orleans and other damged areas of Louisiana and Mississippi. These guys are killers and they love to kill. That is their job. Can you believe that there are actually corporations that send killers all over the world to create wealth for someone who will never fight side by side with these men.
Like I've been saying; when your only tool is force, you use it to fix everything. The Bush administration has no real idea how to deal with something like hurricane Katrina. They've used force in Iraq to steal their wealth, they can use force to rebuild New Orleans. No...it just turns it into a war zone.
"Excuse me, old woman, I'm from Blackwater and I'm here to rebuild your home..." BAM!
It is also apparent that Bush's appointees are just as incompetent as he is. Michael Brown was the roommate to Bush's 2000 campaign manager, Joe Allbaugh, in college. No more qualification is needed. So, one has to wonder how many more important jobs, such as the head of FEMA have been given to complete incompetents because they were favors.
But you see, with the U.S. Government, it is more important to look good than to be good. I have met many Christians that think in this same manner. They look like good Christians, but when you do a little digging, you find out that they are not nice people at all.
So, with incompetents in the field of hurricane relief, and having only one tool at their disposal, force, New Orleans is now a war zone. Under the current conditions, the city will never be truly be rebuilt. For proof of this forecast, one only has to look at how well America is rebuilding Baghdad and the rest of Iraq. And these contractors are sucking away our tax dollars that could be helping people.
There were 66 chemical plants that have been damaged in Louisiana creating a toxicity that those that aren't high level incompetents, but actually understand this information, state that New Orleans will be unilveable for at least 10 years (Common Dreams article: Cover-Up: Toxic Waters 'Will make New Orleans Unsafe for a Decade' by Geoffrey Lean).
Contractors are already getting contracts to rebuild New Orleans, at least the Naval bases. I joked the several days before it happened that Halliburton would get rebuilding contracts, and wouldn't you know it, Kellogg Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, did indeed get contracts to rebuild, just like the horrible job they are doing of rebuilding Iraq. Honestly, they are just profiteers off of human suffering.
And speaking of contractors misappropriating funds, our tax dollars, to kill others so wealthy oil men can maintain and increase their status quo, here is a quote from Janis Karpinski, a former commander in Abu Ghraib and the highest level fall guy for the crimes, discussing how contractors are paid in cash: "You take a request - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer recognized your face and you were asking for $450,000 to pay a contractor for work, they would pay you in cash: $450,000. Out of control." Read the whole article on Truthout: Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration by Marjorie Cohn. www.truthout.org.
So, there are a few things to think about what your tax dollars are doing in Louisiana. Our money is rebuilding an area that is being treated like a war zone. I believe it was Mark Twain that said: "When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." When your only tool is force, everything looks like war. And to solve problems like the disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi, the Bush administration treats it like war. Afterall, they have some of their hired killer contractors working the streets of Baghdad and New Orleans.
And let's not forget the violations of the constitution in New Orleans as well as in Iraq, specifically, freedom of the press. But the rich white men in DC and that heads of corporations like Blackwater, will never see a day behind bars for their crimes. I mean, it's not like they are black men looting VCR's or something (see previous post for faceitiousness of the previous comment).
Like I've been saying; when your only tool is force, you use it to fix everything. The Bush administration has no real idea how to deal with something like hurricane Katrina. They've used force in Iraq to steal their wealth, they can use force to rebuild New Orleans. No...it just turns it into a war zone.
"Excuse me, old woman, I'm from Blackwater and I'm here to rebuild your home..." BAM!
It is also apparent that Bush's appointees are just as incompetent as he is. Michael Brown was the roommate to Bush's 2000 campaign manager, Joe Allbaugh, in college. No more qualification is needed. So, one has to wonder how many more important jobs, such as the head of FEMA have been given to complete incompetents because they were favors.
But you see, with the U.S. Government, it is more important to look good than to be good. I have met many Christians that think in this same manner. They look like good Christians, but when you do a little digging, you find out that they are not nice people at all.
So, with incompetents in the field of hurricane relief, and having only one tool at their disposal, force, New Orleans is now a war zone. Under the current conditions, the city will never be truly be rebuilt. For proof of this forecast, one only has to look at how well America is rebuilding Baghdad and the rest of Iraq. And these contractors are sucking away our tax dollars that could be helping people.
There were 66 chemical plants that have been damaged in Louisiana creating a toxicity that those that aren't high level incompetents, but actually understand this information, state that New Orleans will be unilveable for at least 10 years (Common Dreams article: Cover-Up: Toxic Waters 'Will make New Orleans Unsafe for a Decade' by Geoffrey Lean).
Contractors are already getting contracts to rebuild New Orleans, at least the Naval bases. I joked the several days before it happened that Halliburton would get rebuilding contracts, and wouldn't you know it, Kellogg Brown and Root, a Halliburton subsidiary, did indeed get contracts to rebuild, just like the horrible job they are doing of rebuilding Iraq. Honestly, they are just profiteers off of human suffering.
And speaking of contractors misappropriating funds, our tax dollars, to kill others so wealthy oil men can maintain and increase their status quo, here is a quote from Janis Karpinski, a former commander in Abu Ghraib and the highest level fall guy for the crimes, discussing how contractors are paid in cash: "You take a request - literally, you take a request to the Finance Office. If the Pay Officer recognized your face and you were asking for $450,000 to pay a contractor for work, they would pay you in cash: $450,000. Out of control." Read the whole article on Truthout: Abu Ghraib General Lambastes Bush Administration by Marjorie Cohn. www.truthout.org.
So, there are a few things to think about what your tax dollars are doing in Louisiana. Our money is rebuilding an area that is being treated like a war zone. I believe it was Mark Twain that said: "When your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." When your only tool is force, everything looks like war. And to solve problems like the disaster in Louisiana and Mississippi, the Bush administration treats it like war. Afterall, they have some of their hired killer contractors working the streets of Baghdad and New Orleans.
And let's not forget the violations of the constitution in New Orleans as well as in Iraq, specifically, freedom of the press. But the rich white men in DC and that heads of corporations like Blackwater, will never see a day behind bars for their crimes. I mean, it's not like they are black men looting VCR's or something (see previous post for faceitiousness of the previous comment).
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