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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>This is the stupidest thing that could be in a
newspaper at this time. So, global warming would mean that this has never
happened before?? Or that New Orleans is not built below sea level AND that they
have had problems with levees before?? Is there no history before Bush that
might possible have had some ramifications at this time? For anyone to print
something like this is so incredable! The city of New Orleans should reevaluate
their location. Just maybe this is a good time to build somewhere above sea
level. I cannot believe the power they think he has!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Only one man on earth has been able to calm the
sea.</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=deco@moscow.com href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">Art Deco</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision 2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 01, 2005 9:29
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] 09-01-05 NY Times:
Waiting for a Leader</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><EM>NY Times</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=kicker><STRONG>Editorial</STRONG></DIV><NYT_HEADLINE type=" "
version="1.0">
<H1>Waiting for a Leader</H1>
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<DIV class=timestamp>Published: September 1, 2005</DIV>
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<P>George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday,
especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of
consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration,
the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address
of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry
list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf
Coast. He advised the public that anybody who wanted to help should send cash,
grinned, and promised that everything would work out in the end.</P>
<P>We will, of course, endure, and the city of New Orleans must come back. But
looking at the pictures on television yesterday of a place abandoned to the
forces of flood, fire and looting, it was hard not to wonder exactly how that
is going to come to pass. Right now, hundreds of thousands of American
refugees need our national concern and care. Thousands of people still need to
be rescued from imminent peril. Public health threats must be controlled in
New Orleans and throughout southern Mississippi. Drivers must be given
confidence that gasoline will be available, and profiteering must be brought
under control at a moment when television has been showing long lines at some
pumps and spot prices approaching $4 a gallon have been reported.</P>
<P>Sacrifices may be necessary to make sure that all these things happen in an
orderly, efficient way. But this administration has never been one to counsel
sacrifice. And nothing about the president's demeanor yesterday - which seemed
casual to the point of carelessness - suggested that he understood the depth
of the current crisis.</P>
<P>While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs,
the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees remained so inadequate.
Publications from the local newspaper to National Geographic have fulminated
about the bad state of flood protection in this beloved city, which is below
sea level. Why were developers permitted to destroy wetlands and barrier
islands that could have held back the hurricane's surge? Why was Congress,
before it wandered off to vacation, engaged in slashing the budget for
correcting some of the gaping holes in the area's flood protection? </P>
<P>It would be some comfort to think that, as Mr. Bush cheerily announced,
America "will be a stronger place" for enduring this crisis. Complacency will
no longer suffice, especially if experts are right in warning that global
warming may increase the intensity of future hurricanes. But since this
administration won't acknowledge that global warming exists, the chances of
leadership seem minimal.</P></NYT_TEXT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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