Re: OT President Bush cuts his vacation short to personally oversee the federal effort


"Josh" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Dan J.S. wrote:
>> "Scott in Florida" <JustAsk@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050830/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_hurricane
>>>
>>> CORONADO, Calif. -
>>> President Bush will cut short his vacation to return to Washington on
>>> Wednesday, two days earlier than planned, to help monitor federal
>>> efforts to assist victims of Hurricane Katrina, the White House said
>>> Tuesday.
>>>
>>> "We have got a lot of work to do," Bush said, referring to the damage
>>> wrought by the hurricane along Gulf Coast areas.
>>>
>>> The president had been scheduled to return to the nation's capital on
>>> Friday, after spending more than four weeks operating from his ranch
>>> in Central Texas. But after receiving a briefing early Tuesday on the
>>> devastation Katrina unleashed, the president decided that he needed
>>> to be in Washington to personally oversee the federal effort, White
>>> House spokesman Scott McClellan said.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Guys - differences aside, this Katrina thing is a huge tragedy... i am
>> donating cash and maybe time if they will take me there... there will
>> be thousands dead - so say some of my military buddies that assessed
>> the situation already.... these folks will need everyones help -
>> politics aside... really, the death toll is larger than 9/11
>
> Is it really? I havent been watching the news much, what's it at?
>
>

officially its around 100, but there are so many bodies floating around -
some are people buried in the above ground graves, but most are people
killed by Katrina... its bad... really bad


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