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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Mark Crispin Miller
[mailto:mcm7@MAIL.nyu.edu] <BR><B>Sent:</B> September 2, 2005 11:46
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#000080 size=-1> </FONT><FONT face=Tahoma
size=-1><B>From:</B> ImpeachGeorgeWBush@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:ImpeachGeorgeWBush@yahoogroups.com]<B> On Behalf Of</B> Rita
Pickering</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=-1><B>Sent:</B> Friday, September 02, 2005 7:46
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Progressive; ImpeachGeorgeWBush<BR><B>Subject:</B>
[ImpeachGeorgeWBush] A Sign of Things to Come</FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Times New Roman"></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Subject: Gulf Coast "Chaos" -- A Sign of Things to
Come</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:34:21 EDT</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Look closely at what's going on in the Gulf
states:</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>You're seeing America's future, when the infrastructure
(cannibalized for Iraq and a nonsensical "war on terror") further decays and a
Great Depression finally hits.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>You're seeing how politicians in Washington, D.C., really
feel about the poor. People living without food, water, clothing, shelter, or
medical care -- especially if they're black -- are just told to "be patient,"
day after day, until, predictably, they simply die.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>You're also seeing just how effective "Homeland Security"
and FEMA will really be at "protecting the American people" in the event of a
massive terrorist attack.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>They're worrying primarily about getting the OIL pipelines
running again.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>The lives of tens of thousands of people coldly left to
die are glossed over as just "collateral damage," as 3000 were at the World
Trade Center.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Watch: Soon you'll see how the federal government's
military forces "restore order," under martial law, as the starving and
doomed-to-die who dare to trespass on "private property" to steal food or water
are shot dead in the street in cold blood.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>The first response of Washington bureaucrats is always an
itchy trigger finger -- "security" (suppressing "insurgents") is their main
concern, not "disaster relief."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Welcome to living conditions in Iraq, in the United
States. (The Iraqi people too are outraged that there's no electricity, no
water, and nobody cares so long as the oil and blood money is flowing into the
right hands. Unlivable conditions like that are natural breeding grounds for
"insurgents.") So look carefully: This is what the Bush Administration's foreign
policy looks like when applied as domestic policy.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/12537489.htm"><FONT
size=+1><B>http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/nation/1253748<SPAN></SPAN>9.htm</B></FONT></A><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Federal Officials Pressed to Explain Pace of
Response</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>BY MATT STEARNS, SCOTT CANON AND CHRIS
ADAMS</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Knight Ridder Newspapers, Monterey
Herald</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>September 1, 2005</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>NEW ORLEANS -- (KRT) -- Hungry and desperate people
trapped in a destroyed city. A police department in what one official called
"survival mode." Dead bodies on the streets, blankets flung over them --
sometimes.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Capt. Michael Pfeiffer of the New Orleans Police
Department said the department's communication system failed during the storm
and police districts now were working their areas often unaware of what was
happening elsewhere in the city. Pfeiffer still has a handheld radio, but he's
almost out of battery power and needs to keep it off most of the
time.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"We're in survival mode here," Pfeiffer
said.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>With New Orleans degenerating toward anarchy and other
areas hit by Hurricane Katrina still awaiting assistance [AFTER FOUR DAYS],
federal, state, and local officials are under mounting pressure to explain why
they haven't moved faster to get aid to people and places devastated by the
storm.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Terry Ebbert, the head of New Orleans' emergency
operations, called the federal government's response "a national
disgrace."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Citing the complexities of trying to assist people in a
90,000-square mile area, much of it still flooded, officials in Washington on
Thursday offered little more than empathy, pledges that the pace would pick up
and pleas not to engage in finger-pointing.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"We certainly understand frustration coming from people on
the ground who are in need of help, and we will continue working to get them the
assistance that they need," White House spokesman Scott McClellan
said.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>There was evidence Thursday that Americans believed what
they saw on television more than what they heard from government
officials.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>A Survey USA poll of 1,200 adults nationwide found that 59
percent of Americans thought the federal government wasn't doing enough to help
victims of the hurricane and its aftermath, up from 50 percent the previous day.
Fifty-five percent of the whites and 75 percent of the African-Americans polled
said the federal response had been inadequate.</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>In Mississippi, three days after Katrina, officials opened
20 sites in Harrison County to deliver water and ice to frustrated residents.
While people had been reduced to searching through garbage for food, authorities
didn't expect to be able to distribute any food until Friday. There's still no
timetable for making temporary shelter available to those without
homes.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Col. Joe Spraggins, the director of the Harrison County
Emergency Management Agency, said debris had hampered local authorities' ability
to get supply trucks to distribution sites. He said 18 trucks with water and ice
had been in a staging area before the storm, but the hurricane destroyed it
all.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Spraggins said Mississippi and federal authorities were
under stress from the demands of a storm whose impact stretched across three
states, including most of Mississippi.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"FEMA is scattered all over the place," Spraggins said,
noting that the situation was more "critical" in New Orleans than in
Mississippi. "That's not their fault."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who oversees
FEMA, said "flooding ... has dramatically impeded our ability to get supplies
into New Orleans."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Even in Houston, which had begun to receive thousands of
refugees from New Orleans, plans seemed uncertain Thursday.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Only about 2,000 cots had been put on the floor of the
Astrodome, leaving many without places to lie down. Harris County Judge Robert
Eckels said the plan was never to house all 25,000 refugees at one time.
Officials still didn't know when all of them would arrive in
Houston.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"There's very little communication from New Orleans,"
Eckels said. "It's very frustrating."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Critics charged that the delays and confusion were a
product of the Bush administration's misplaced priorities.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>William Waugh, a disaster-management specialist and
public-administration professor at Georgia State University, said the federal
government appeared slow to pre-position medical and other disaster supplies in
the Gulf region, and slow to get federal troops and other disaster workers into
places that Katrina had pummeled.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Frannie Edwards, the director of emergency preparedness
for the city of San Jose, Calif., charged that the Department of Homeland
Security overreacted to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks four years ago by
bleeding money out of conventional emergency-response
programs.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"Our natural disasters in the United States are seasonal,
not preventable, and we know they're definitely going to happen," Edwards said.
"Money for mitigation of them has been siphoned off to deal with terrorism
activity, which we don't know is going to happen and which can sometimes be
prevented. The federal government's change in emphasis away from all-hazards
emergency management and to a very strong focus on terrorism has lessened the
resources to respond to events like Katrina."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Asked whether more could have been done to prepare for the
disaster, McClellan said: "This is a time when the whole country needs to come
together to help those in the region. And that's where our focus is. This is not
a time to get into any finger-pointing or politics or anything of that
nature."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>---</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>[Stearns, a Washington correspondent for "The Kansas City
Star," reported from Washington. Canon, also of the Star, reported from Kansas
City and Adams reported from New Orleans. Gary Fineout of "The Miami Herald"
contributed to this report from Gulfport, Miss.; David Wethe of the "Fort Worth
Star-Telegram" contributed from Houston and Seth Borenstein contributed from
Washington.]</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>_______________________</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights,
Rapes</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>By ALLEN G. BREED</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>The Guardian (UK)</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>September 2, 2005</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Associated Press Writer</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- New Orleans descended into anarchy
Thursday, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out
and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away
from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken.
"This is a desperate SOS,'' mayor Ray Nagin said.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"We are out here like pure animals,'' the Rev. Issac Clark
said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where he and other evacuees had
been waiting for buses for days amid the filth and the dead.</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"I'm not sure I'm going to get out of here alive,'' said
tourist Larry Mitzel of Saskatoon, Canada, who handed a reporter his business
card in case he goes missing. "I'm scared of riots. I'm scared of the locals. We
might get caught in the crossfire.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Four days after Hurricane Katrina roared in with a
devastating blow that inflicted potentially thousands of deaths, the
frustration, fear, and anger mounted, despite the promise of 1,400 National
Guardsmen a day to stop the looting, plans for a $10 billion recovery bill in
Congress and a government relief effort President Bush called the biggest in
U.S. history.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>New Orleans' top emergency management official called that
effort a "national disgrace'' and questioned when reinforcements would actually
reach the increasingly lawless city.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>About 15,000 to 20,000 people who had taken shelter at New
Orleans convention center grew increasingly hostile after waiting for buses for
days amid the filth and the dead. Police Chief Eddie Compass said he sent in 88
officers to quell the situation at the building, but they were quickly driven
back by an angry mob.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"We have individuals who are getting raped, we have
individuals who are getting beaten,'' Compass said. "Tourists are walking in
that direction and they are getting preyed upon.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>A military helicopter tried to land at the convention
center several times to drop off food and water. But the rushing crowd forced
the choppers to back off. Troopers then tossed the supplies to the crowd from 10
feet off the ground and flew away.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>In hopes of defusing the situation at the convention
center, Mayor Ray Nagin gave the refugees permission to march across a bridge to
the city's unflooded west bank for whatever relief they could find. But the
bedlam made that difficult.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"This is a desperate SOS,'' Nagin said in a statement.
"Right now, we are out of resources at the convention center and don't
anticipate enough buses.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>At least seven bodies were scattered outside the
convention center, a makeshift staging area for those rescued from rooftops,
attics, and highways. The sidewalks were packed with people without food, water
or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median
as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead
in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her
wrapped in a sheet.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"I don't treat my dog like that,'' 47-year-old Daniel
Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>The street outside the center, above the floodwaters,
smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles, and
garbage.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"They've been teasing us with buses for four days,''
Edwards said. "They're telling us they're going to come get us one day, and then
they don't show up.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Every so often, an armored state police vehicle cruised in
front of the convention center with four or five officers in riot gear with
automatic weapons. But there was no sign of help from the National
Guard.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>At one point, the crowd began to chant "We want help! We
want help!" Later, a woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention
center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd
...''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"We are out here like pure animals,'' the Issac Clark
said.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"We've got people dying out here -- two babies have died,
a woman died, a man died,'' said Helen Cheek. "We haven't had no food, we
haven't had no water, we haven't had nothing. They just brought us here and
dropped us.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Tourist Debbie Durso of Washington, Mich., said she asked
a police officer for assistance and his response was, "'Go to hell -- it's every
man for himself'."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"This is just insanity,'' she said. "We have no food, no
water ... all these trucks and buses go by and they do nothing but
wave.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>At the hot and stinking Superdome, where 30,000 were being
evacuated by bus to the Houston Astrodome, fistfights and fires erupted amid a
seething sea of tense, suffering people who waited in a lines that stretched a
half-mile to board yellow school buses.</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>After a traffic jam kept buses from arriving for nearly
four hours, a near-riot broke out in the scramble to get on the buses that
finally did show up, with a group of refugees breaking through a line of heavily
armed National Guardsmen.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>One military policeman was shot in the leg as he and a man
scuffled for the MP's rifle, police Capt. Ernie Demmo said. The man was
arrested.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Some of those among the mostly poor crowd had been in the
dome for four days without air conditioning, working toilets or a place to
bathe. An ambulance service airlifting the sick and injured out of the Superdome
suspended flights as too dangerous after it was reported that a bullet was fired
at a military helicopter.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"If they're just taking us anywhere, just anywhere, I say
praise God,'' said refugee John Phillip. "Nothing could be worse than what we've
been through.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>By Thursday evening, 11 hours after the military began
evacuating the Superdome, the arena held 10,000 more people than it did at dawn.
National Guard Capt. John Pollard said evacuees from around the city poured into
the Superdome and swelled the crowd to about 30,000 because they believed the
arena was the best place to get a ride out of town.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>As he watched a line snaking for blocks through ankle-deep
waters, New Orleans' emergency operations chief Terry Ebbert blamed the
inadequate response on the Federal Emergency Management
Agency.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"This is not a FEMA operation. I haven't seen a single
FEMA guy,'' he said. He added: "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami
victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>FEMA officials said some operations had to be suspended in
areas where gunfire has broken out.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>A day after Nagin took 1,500 police officers off
search-and-rescue duty to try to restore order in the streets, there were
continued reports of looting, shootings, gunfire, and carjackings -- and not all
the crimes were driven by greed.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>When some hospitals try to airlift patients, Coast Guard
Lt. Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesan said, "there are people just taking potshots at police
and at helicopters, telling them, 'You better come get my
family'."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Outside a looted Rite-Aid drugstore, some people were
anxious to show they needed what they were taking. A gray-haired man, who would
not give his name, pulled up his T-shirt to show a surgery scar and explained
that he needs pads for incontinence.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"I'm a Christian. I feel bad going in there,'' he
said.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Earl Baker carried toothpaste, toothbrushes, and
deodorant. "Look, I'm only getting necessities,'' he said. "All of this is
personal hygiene. I ain't getting nothing to get drunk or high
with.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>While floodwaters in the city appeared to stabilize,
efforts continued to plug three breaches that had opened up in the levee system
that protects this below-sea-level city.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Helicopters dropped sandbags into the breach and pilings
were being pounded into the mouth of the canal Thursday to close its connection
to Lake Pontchartrain, state Transportation Secretary Johnny Bradberry said. He
said contractors had completed building a rock road to let heavy equipment roll
to the area by midnight.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>The next step called for using about 250 concrete road
barriers to seal the gap.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>In Washington, the White House said Bush will tour the
devastated Gulf Coast region on Friday and has asked his father, former
President George H.W. Bush, and former President Clinton to lead a private
fund-raising campaign for victims.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>The president urged a crackdown on the
lawlessness.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"I think there ought to be zero tolerance of people
breaking the law during an emergency such as this -- whether it be looting, or
price gouging at the gasoline pump, or taking advantage of charitable giving or
insurance fraud,'' Bush said. "And I've made that clear to our attorney general.
The citizens ought to be working together.''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Donald Dudley, a 55-year-old New Orleans seafood merchant,
complained that when he and other hungry refugees broke into the kitchen of the
convention center and tried to prepare food, the National Guard chased them
away.</B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"They pulled guns and told us we had to leave that kitchen
or they would blow our damn brains out,'' he said. "We don't want their help.
Give us some vehicles and we'll get ourselves out of
here!''</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B></B></FONT><BR> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>-------- Original Message --------</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Subject: (2) Gulf Coast Chaos</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 23:39:26 EDT</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>There are times when America actually looks like the Third
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Local: Chicago Doctor Stranded in New Orleans Treats
Victims</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>Thursday, September 1, 2005 / 7:26
a.m.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>by Steve Grzanich</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>WBBM Newsradio 780</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>A Chicago doctor, who is stranded in New Orleans, is
helping victims of the hurricanes and has some harsh criticism of the emergency
response to the disaster.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"The misery in the city, we can see it from our windows.
It is just unbelievable," said Dr. James Sullivan, an infectious disease
specialist at Chicago's Saint Joseph Hospital. Sullivan has a third floor room
in the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New Orleans which is surrounded by five feet of
floodwater.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"This is going to deteriorate every day," said Sullivan
about the growing human toll in New Orleans. He had an ominous
prediction.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"Three to 12 days from now, we will start to see massive
diarrhea outbreaks, vomiting, and illness from all out virus. Thats what is
going to happen and there are no medical facilities. When that starts people
will die."</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>With several colleagues and police, Dr. Sullivan raided a
nearby pharmacy and turned the hotel into a makeshift clinic. He and his
colleagues have treated dozens of people.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>"Where the hell are the aircraft that are over in Iraq
that ought to be coming down and taking people out. I am so furious at the lack
of response here," Sullivan said.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=+1><B>>From the roof of his hotel, Sullivan said he can see
looting, fires, and he can hear gunfire. He had no idea when he might be able to
return to Chicago.</B></FONT><BR></DIV>
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