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Bush criticism is widely reported

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 6 September 2005
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Fierce criticism of President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina dominates Tuesday’s papers, amid reports of ongoing suffering among storm victims.

The Daily Mirror condemns the response as amazingly inadequate, pointing out that the richest country on Earth needs aid from poorer nations.

And the Guardian says many evacuees at a Louisiana church centre visited by Mr Bush were unimpressed by the president.

Meanwhile, the Sun likens New Orleans to a medieval wasteland.

Hurricane suffering

Many papers carry more individual accounts of the horrors experienced by hurricane survivors in New Orleans.

A university professor who sheltered in the Superdome with his family tells the Daily Express he feared his 18-year-old daughter would be raped.

The Independent’s front page image is of a hurricane victim’s makeshift grave. And the Mirror shows a body lying face down in floodwater.

The Times says volunteers are searching for survivors by boat.

’Bra wars’ ceasefire

The deal to end the so-called ’bra wars’ over Chinese clothing imports fails to impress the commentators.

The Financial Times describes it as a sordid short-term fix to sort out the mess over textile quotas.

And the Daily Telegraph says the EU is off the hook after ten days of humiliating negotiations with China.

The Indy warns the agreement will not make European textile manufacturers more competitive or guarantee their long term survival.

Ashes anticipation

The Times’ front page offers a sobering view of plans to allow pubs and clubs to stay open until the early hours.

A survey for the paper suggests that people are against the changes by almost two to one, with only 18 to 24-year-olds backing the move.

And ahead of the final Ashes test, the Express says Trafalgar Square has been booked for a victory celebration.

The Daily Mail wants the nation to join in singing the hymn Jerusalem as the match gets under way on Thursday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4217932.stm

Forum posts

  • Wow. Criticism from lefty europeans who hate bush. Yeah, we’re really surprised.

  • No human being with a clear mind could ever been impressed by G. W. Bush! A native American who doesn’t even speak english fluently as the president of the U. S.!
    That sounds weird.

  • Do the UK papers mention that the devastated area is roughly the size of the UK? How would the UK respond if pretty much all of it lost power, and lots of it lost water and sewers, not mention flood damage?

    • Let’s not get too diverted. While the area is large, let’s focus on New Orleans; where the majority of black residents were left unattended, without food, water and assistance of any kind by their government for 4-5 days. Sure, some areas of Misssissippi were hard-hit, they were not flooded. People did not drown in their homes, bodies were not being eaten in the streets by rats. So, looking at a city (area) of about 1.5m people, I suspect the UK government would have moved their asses faster than the Bush administration. In fact, the UK provides its citizens a wonderful health-care plan that the U.S. can only dream about. If the U.S. spent less on bombs, on invading other countries and paying for the theft of Palestinian lands, the relocation of Jews, etc., the people of the Unitied States would have a better standard of living. Stop apologizing for your government.

    • Nobody is apologizing for the government, but there has to be recognition that blame should be apportioned to city and state governments as well and made it difficult for the fed gov’t to work with them. As for that wonderful british health system, they can keep it. Long waiting periods allowing medical conditions to get worse and letting the gov’t agency select who lives and who dies doesn’t sound wonderful to me.

    • Well the fact that a UN report has been released that puts US infant mortality rate equal to Malaysia doesn’t sound wonderful to me either!

      Infant mortality has RISEN in this country since 2000. Coincidence? I think not. Bush is a bigger threat to this country than any terrorist ever could be. After all, terrorists can’t undermine or eliminate laws protecting civil rights, forests, or clean water and air. They can’t pass laws giving tax cuts to the wealthy, cut funding for medical care for the poor and funding for levees to protect New Orleans. Terrorists can’t rig our elections or totally destroy the balance of power in this once great country. Terrorists may have been responsible for 9/11, but they were not responsible for our invading a sovereign nation NOT responsible for 9/11. Only politicians can do these sorts of damage. This is one area where the Bush administration has succeeded.

      You are right about one thing, nobody is apologizing for the government. The government (Bush) fails to accept blame or responsibility for any of his many shortcomings. I won’t apologize because I never voted for or supported him in the first place. I say impeach the entire administration.

      As for state and local government impeding the federal government after Katrina, you’ve been listening to Rush Limbaugh and Faux News too much.

    • "Sure, some areas of Misssissippi were hard-hit, they were not flooded. People did not drown in their homes, bodies were not being eaten in the streets by rats."

      Sorry, this is just not true. The storm surge swept about a half mile inland along the Mississippi coast, north of the main east-west railroad tracks, drowning plenty of people in their homes. The news is focusing on NO—correctly—because that was the largest city effected, plus they suffered the double-disaster of the levees breaking.

      MTT