September 16, 2005
MNF-Iraq Combined Press Information Center
This week in Iraq is a weekly look at successes and accomplishments throughout the country. It is the news that doesn't get reported. It is the good news from the front. http://www.mnf-iraq.com/publications_theater.htm
Tired of pushing buttons or talking to a recording?
The following site listed phone numbers and codes to talk to a live person: www.find.pcworld.com/48937
A comment from a friend regarding the hysterical nature of news coverage and not getting the whole picture, especially early on during the event: “Most folks don't stop to realize that watching a disaster on TV is like watching a movie thru a soda straw.”
Jeep, Doing 80MPH, Drives Under Plane To Fix Landing Gear
9/16/05 NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- It was a literal fix on the fly at the New Smyrna Beach Airport. Three men in a jeep drove within feet of a small plane to fix its landing gear while it was still in the air…The jeep had to go just about as fast as it could go down the runway, and the small Cessna had to slow to almost stalling speed for it to work.
Article and slide show at http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4982688/detail.html
Vietnam burns homes of Christians
September 14, 2005 Vietnamese authorities burned more than 10 homes of tribal Christians who refused to deny their faith, a U.S. persecution monitor reported. Christians in Suoi Rut hamlet, Doi Sau village, Quang Ngai province, were forced to flee their village July 21 and now are searching for a new place to live, according to Washington, D.C.-based International Christian Concern.
The victims belonged to the Evangelical Church of Vietnam, which has formal recognition by the Vietnamese government. But the local communist authorities publicly have stated “the Christian religion is America's religion, and is not allowed here.”
… Officials reportedly informed the 12 families that their land would be reinstated if they signed an agreement renouncing Christianity. They also threatened to confiscate the land of 33 other Christian families.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46306
Married Americans remaining faithful
September 16, 2005 More than 90 percent of married Americans said they were faithful to their spouses in 2002, according to a new federal report on sexual behavior that includes data on men for the first time. (what about in 2001 or 2003?)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050916-120805-6162r.htm
Afghanistan Readies for Next Step Along Path to Democracy
September 16, 2005- The people of Afghanistan go to the polls this weekend to cement a transition towards full democracy that began when U.S.-led forces set out to topple the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime almost four years ago.
Around 12 million Afghans are registered to vote for representatives for the national parliament and provincial assemblies. They will choose from some 5,800 hopefuls - including nearly 600 female candidates in a country notorious in the past for repressing and marginalizing women...Sunday's poll follows a presidential election last October, won by the former interim leader, Hamid Karzai. That was Afghanistan's first election in 40 years; this is its second….
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200509\FOR20050916a.html
Center for Disease Control says 2.3% see selves as homosexual
September 16, 2005 A new report from the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics finds… 2.3% see selves as homosexual…
Homosexual activists have often claimed 10 percent of the population is homosexual, but that figure has long been discredited. The 10 percent number is based on fraudulent research done by Indiana University zoologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey in the mid-20th century. More recent research puts the number between 1 and 3 percent, which is consistent with the CDC numbers. ...last year homosexual activists in Canada disputed statistics from the government in Ottawa that showed just 1 percent of the nation's population identify themselves as homosexual. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46356
(I suspect that most of the 2.3% just lack self discipline, are confused or have a rebellious nature and find this a means to be different and an excuse to be persecuted. For example, I don’t flirt with women or cheat on my wife. Why? Because God says it’s wrong. Yet there are men who, despite God or societal morals, believe that it is wrong to deny their carnal desires when they see a pretty woman and that there is nothing wrong if they give in to their baser instincts. Sure people are tempted to a certain degree and have to resist. I may feel like punching somebody’s lights out, but I don’t, because I know it’s wrong. Others don’t “feel” like its wrong and beat up who ever they want. The same should go for those who think they fall in the homosexual category. Even if you can argue some people have a predisposition towards homosexuality so what? Some people are presiposed to cancer or alcoholism but we don’t ignore it. Resistance is not futile. DB)
Gee, and I thought President Bush didn’t get the troops into N.O. fast enough
…Cindy Sheehan said she was troubled by the "level of the military presence" in the Gulf Coast state. Sheehan wrote on Michael Moore’s web site “George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq…”
In her Internet posting today, Sheehan said she had "imagined before that if the military had to be used in [continental U.S.] operations that they would be there to help the citizens: Clothe them, feed them, shelter them, and protect them. But what I saw was a city that is occupied." Describing the scene, she wrote, "I saw soldiers walking around in patrols of 7 with their weapons slung on their backs. I wanted to ask one of them what it would take for one of them to shoot me. Sand bags were removed from private property to make machine gun nests." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46368
Katrina Death Toll Boosted by Violence
...Rescue and recovery workers returning from New Orleans say they've found a shocking number of victims who died - not from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters - but from gunshot wounds and other forms of violence apparently inflicted by gangs who terrorized the city after the storm struck....After patrolling the city's mean streets the Monday morning after the floods hit, New Orleans fire and rescue worker Gary Hatch said the first bodies he recovered died of either gunshot wounds or had their throats slit. ...Maine emergency worker Dan Wiltshire echoed Hatch's account, telling his hometown newspaper, “I have seen a few gunshot wounds . . . Given that New Orleans is known to be a violent city, I can’t believe that the National Guard wasn’t called in earlier.”
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/16/110630.shtml
Nagin turned down Amtrak offer of 900 seat train
Sept 13, 2005...Nagin, whose desperate plea for help in the days after the storm made him a folk hero to some, faces criticism for turning away resources that could have moved more people out of the city faster....The mayor's disaster plan called for mobilizing buses and evacuating the poor, but he did not get it done. He said he could not find drivers, but Amtrak says it offered help and was turned down, so a train with 900 seats rolled away empty a day and a half before the storm... http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=3845279&ClientType=Printable
Good News
...there is good news coming out of post-Katrina New Orleans and the Gulf coast. For example:
• Tuesday evening the first container ship docked at the Port of New Orleans and began unloading. This beat the Port's predicted reopening by six months...
• According to EPA tallies of the New Orleans metropolitan area's 12 drinking water plants, two in the suburbs and one in the city are now producing potable water and several others are producing water that requires boiling...
• The number of dead in New Orleans, while in the hundreds, is far below the 10,000 predicted by Mayor C. Ray Nagin a week ago...
• Significantly, in a speech to the Louisiana legislature Wednesday Governor Kathleen Blanco accepted responsibility for any failures at the state level. This matches the previous day's statement by President Bush's that he takes responsibility for federal shortcomings...
...Governor Blanco (whose indecision that first weekend was, in part, responsible for delays in federal action) now describes President Bush as “a friend and partner.” Mayor Nagin, riding side-by-side with the President on two truck tours of New Orleans, has made similar positive comments. Jesse Jackson and his friends, who enjoyed 48 hours of race-mongering last week, have fallen silent. http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8753
New Jersey Dead Get Out The Vote
September 16, 2005 After a summer-long analysis of the 4.7 million names on New Jersey's voter rolls...thousands of cases where people apparently voted more than once, or voted posthumously.
• 54,601 people were registered in more than one county, and 4,397 appeared to have voted twice in the 2004 presidential election.
• 170,558 people were registered to vote in New Jersey as well as other states. Of those, 90,025 voted in New Jersey last year, and 6,572 appeared to have voted in two states.
• 4,755 individuals listed in county records as deceased also were listed as voting last year.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/112685194494450.xml&coll=1
Storm-relief money spent at strip clubs
Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit cards
September 16, 2005 On the heels of a report earlier this week that Atlanta area Katrina victims were using $2,000 debit cards to purchase luxury items like Louis Vuitton handbags, Houston police yesterday discovered the cards, provided by FEMA and the Red Cross, being used at local strip clubs... The FEMA and Red Cross cards have few restrictions, but some evacuees have gotten into trouble when they tried to get additional cards...Restrictions on the cards say they can't be used to purchase alcohol, tobacco or firearms…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46361
Embarrassing Bush Photograph Exposes Reuters Contradiction
September 15, 2005… According to an article published by the PDN Newswire Thursday, the picture was snapped by Reuters contract photographer Rick Wilking and shows Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reading, “I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?” …an executive with Reuters [said] anyone doctoring a picture for publication would be immediately fired. …PDN Newswire spoke with one of Reuters' picture editors - Gary Hershorn, who explained that sections of the photo were overexposed so a Reuters processor used the Photoshop technique to “burn down the note.” Hershorn told PDN Newswire that the photo was not manipulated in any way, but that it was standard practice for such news photos to be enhanced….Reuters maintains “very, very strong policies and rules against any doctoring of our photos,” Bourg said, “and all of the people involved with the photographer who shot the picture and the editors who, who chose it and actually transmitted it are very, very long-term employees of Reuters who we trust implicitly and we have absolutely no doubt at all about the authenticity of the photo.”
…The incident has reminded some people of the CBS “60 Minutes” story in September of 2004 that alleged President Bush shirked his duty while with the Texas Air National Guard in the 1970s. However, the documents used in the “60 Minutes” story and published on the CBS News website, turned out to be fraudulent. The fallout from the episode resulted in the forced resignations of several CBS News staffers and the hastened departure of CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, who had also anchored the “60 Minutes” story.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200509\NAT20050915c.html
Kathleen Blanco: I Should Have Called the Military
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco's abrupt decision Wednesday night to take responsibility for her state's inadequate response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster followed an inadvertent confession that was caught on camera where Blanco admitted she blew it... “I really should have called for the military,” Blanco said, while chatting with her press secretary in between TV interviews. “I really should have started that in the first call.” ...Unbeknownst to Blanco, her bombshell acknowledgment was recorded on a network satellite feed, and by Tuesday the clip was getting wide exposure in Louisiana news broadcasts....Some say Blanco's blooper was responsible for the abrupt change of tone in her speech Wednesday night to the Louisiana legislature...Where earlier she and her aides had openly blamed the Bush administration for bungling Katrina rescue efforts, Blanco announced: “The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.”...Just as surprising were Blanco's words of praise for the White House: “I want the people of Louisiana to know that we have a friend and a partner in President George W. Bush. I thank you, Mr. President.”
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/15/123648.shtml
Politician caught in tearful lie
Parish prez fabricates claim about feds leaving coworker's mom to die
September 15, 2005 [Note: Louisiana has Parishes not Counties] The president of a Louisiana parish tearfully told a national TV audience the heartbreaking story of a coworker whose mother was left to die in a flooded nursing home days after Hurricane Katrina immobilized New Orleans – but, as it turns out, the story isn't true. The blog WuzzaDem.com uncovered the truth-stretching rhetoric of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard's account he shared on “Meet the Press” Sept. 4 as he emotionally complained about lack of federal response to Katrina victims.
Here is Broussard's story broadcast on the NBC news show:
The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in a St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” And he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.” And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.
The Friday night Broussard is talking about was Sept. 2, but it turns out the woman actually died Aug. 29, the previous Monday, when Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
...Reported WuzzaDem.com: “Broussard claims Rodrigue was talking to his mother for four days after she died, promising here some nebulous 'cavalry' was on the way. His story doesn't jibe with the reporting of CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, or even Thomas Rodrigue's own account.
...”Aaron Broussard's crocodile tears came at the tail-end of a tirade against FEMA, in response to a question from [host] Tim Russert asking whether the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana could have been 'more forceful, much more effective and much more organized in evacuating the area.'“
The site claims Broussard, a Democrat, was “trying to score political points” by blaming federal officials when Louisiana's emergency plan explicitly designates local officials as those responsible for pre-disaster evacuation and for responding directly after an event.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46344
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
This week in Iraq is a weekly look at successes and accomplishments throughout the country. It is the news that doesn't get reported. It is the good news from the front. http://www.mnf-iraq.com/publications_theater.htm
Tired of pushing buttons or talking to a recording?
The following site listed phone numbers and codes to talk to a live person: www.find.pcworld.com/48937
A comment from a friend regarding the hysterical nature of news coverage and not getting the whole picture, especially early on during the event: “Most folks don't stop to realize that watching a disaster on TV is like watching a movie thru a soda straw.”
Jeep, Doing 80MPH, Drives Under Plane To Fix Landing Gear
9/16/05 NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- It was a literal fix on the fly at the New Smyrna Beach Airport. Three men in a jeep drove within feet of a small plane to fix its landing gear while it was still in the air…The jeep had to go just about as fast as it could go down the runway, and the small Cessna had to slow to almost stalling speed for it to work.
Article and slide show at http://www.wftv.com/irresistible/4982688/detail.html
Vietnam burns homes of Christians
September 14, 2005 Vietnamese authorities burned more than 10 homes of tribal Christians who refused to deny their faith, a U.S. persecution monitor reported. Christians in Suoi Rut hamlet, Doi Sau village, Quang Ngai province, were forced to flee their village July 21 and now are searching for a new place to live, according to Washington, D.C.-based International Christian Concern.
The victims belonged to the Evangelical Church of Vietnam, which has formal recognition by the Vietnamese government. But the local communist authorities publicly have stated “the Christian religion is America's religion, and is not allowed here.”
… Officials reportedly informed the 12 families that their land would be reinstated if they signed an agreement renouncing Christianity. They also threatened to confiscate the land of 33 other Christian families.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46306
Married Americans remaining faithful
September 16, 2005 More than 90 percent of married Americans said they were faithful to their spouses in 2002, according to a new federal report on sexual behavior that includes data on men for the first time. (what about in 2001 or 2003?)
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20050916-120805-6162r.htm
Afghanistan Readies for Next Step Along Path to Democracy
September 16, 2005- The people of Afghanistan go to the polls this weekend to cement a transition towards full democracy that began when U.S.-led forces set out to topple the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime almost four years ago.
Around 12 million Afghans are registered to vote for representatives for the national parliament and provincial assemblies. They will choose from some 5,800 hopefuls - including nearly 600 female candidates in a country notorious in the past for repressing and marginalizing women...Sunday's poll follows a presidential election last October, won by the former interim leader, Hamid Karzai. That was Afghanistan's first election in 40 years; this is its second….
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=\ForeignBureaus\archive\200509\FOR20050916a.html
Center for Disease Control says 2.3% see selves as homosexual
September 16, 2005 A new report from the Centers for Disease Control's National Center for Health Statistics finds… 2.3% see selves as homosexual…
Homosexual activists have often claimed 10 percent of the population is homosexual, but that figure has long been discredited. The 10 percent number is based on fraudulent research done by Indiana University zoologist Dr. Alfred Kinsey in the mid-20th century. More recent research puts the number between 1 and 3 percent, which is consistent with the CDC numbers. ...last year homosexual activists in Canada disputed statistics from the government in Ottawa that showed just 1 percent of the nation's population identify themselves as homosexual. http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46356
(I suspect that most of the 2.3% just lack self discipline, are confused or have a rebellious nature and find this a means to be different and an excuse to be persecuted. For example, I don’t flirt with women or cheat on my wife. Why? Because God says it’s wrong. Yet there are men who, despite God or societal morals, believe that it is wrong to deny their carnal desires when they see a pretty woman and that there is nothing wrong if they give in to their baser instincts. Sure people are tempted to a certain degree and have to resist. I may feel like punching somebody’s lights out, but I don’t, because I know it’s wrong. Others don’t “feel” like its wrong and beat up who ever they want. The same should go for those who think they fall in the homosexual category. Even if you can argue some people have a predisposition towards homosexuality so what? Some people are presiposed to cancer or alcoholism but we don’t ignore it. Resistance is not futile. DB)
Gee, and I thought President Bush didn’t get the troops into N.O. fast enough
…Cindy Sheehan said she was troubled by the "level of the military presence" in the Gulf Coast state. Sheehan wrote on Michael Moore’s web site “George Bush needs to stop talking, admit the mistakes of his all around failed administration, pull our troops out of occupied New Orleans and Iraq…”
In her Internet posting today, Sheehan said she had "imagined before that if the military had to be used in [continental U.S.] operations that they would be there to help the citizens: Clothe them, feed them, shelter them, and protect them. But what I saw was a city that is occupied." Describing the scene, she wrote, "I saw soldiers walking around in patrols of 7 with their weapons slung on their backs. I wanted to ask one of them what it would take for one of them to shoot me. Sand bags were removed from private property to make machine gun nests." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46368
Katrina Death Toll Boosted by Violence
...Rescue and recovery workers returning from New Orleans say they've found a shocking number of victims who died - not from Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters - but from gunshot wounds and other forms of violence apparently inflicted by gangs who terrorized the city after the storm struck....After patrolling the city's mean streets the Monday morning after the floods hit, New Orleans fire and rescue worker Gary Hatch said the first bodies he recovered died of either gunshot wounds or had their throats slit. ...Maine emergency worker Dan Wiltshire echoed Hatch's account, telling his hometown newspaper, “I have seen a few gunshot wounds . . . Given that New Orleans is known to be a violent city, I can’t believe that the National Guard wasn’t called in earlier.”
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/16/110630.shtml
Nagin turned down Amtrak offer of 900 seat train
Sept 13, 2005...Nagin, whose desperate plea for help in the days after the storm made him a folk hero to some, faces criticism for turning away resources that could have moved more people out of the city faster....The mayor's disaster plan called for mobilizing buses and evacuating the poor, but he did not get it done. He said he could not find drivers, but Amtrak says it offered help and was turned down, so a train with 900 seats rolled away empty a day and a half before the storm... http://www.wafb.com/global/story.asp?s=3845279&ClientType=Printable
Good News
...there is good news coming out of post-Katrina New Orleans and the Gulf coast. For example:
• Tuesday evening the first container ship docked at the Port of New Orleans and began unloading. This beat the Port's predicted reopening by six months...
• According to EPA tallies of the New Orleans metropolitan area's 12 drinking water plants, two in the suburbs and one in the city are now producing potable water and several others are producing water that requires boiling...
• The number of dead in New Orleans, while in the hundreds, is far below the 10,000 predicted by Mayor C. Ray Nagin a week ago...
• Significantly, in a speech to the Louisiana legislature Wednesday Governor Kathleen Blanco accepted responsibility for any failures at the state level. This matches the previous day's statement by President Bush's that he takes responsibility for federal shortcomings...
...Governor Blanco (whose indecision that first weekend was, in part, responsible for delays in federal action) now describes President Bush as “a friend and partner.” Mayor Nagin, riding side-by-side with the President on two truck tours of New Orleans, has made similar positive comments. Jesse Jackson and his friends, who enjoyed 48 hours of race-mongering last week, have fallen silent. http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8753
New Jersey Dead Get Out The Vote
September 16, 2005 After a summer-long analysis of the 4.7 million names on New Jersey's voter rolls...thousands of cases where people apparently voted more than once, or voted posthumously.
• 54,601 people were registered in more than one county, and 4,397 appeared to have voted twice in the 2004 presidential election.
• 170,558 people were registered to vote in New Jersey as well as other states. Of those, 90,025 voted in New Jersey last year, and 6,572 appeared to have voted in two states.
• 4,755 individuals listed in county records as deceased also were listed as voting last year.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/112685194494450.xml&coll=1
Storm-relief money spent at strip clubs
Police in Houston find misuse of FEMA's $2,000 debit cards
September 16, 2005 On the heels of a report earlier this week that Atlanta area Katrina victims were using $2,000 debit cards to purchase luxury items like Louis Vuitton handbags, Houston police yesterday discovered the cards, provided by FEMA and the Red Cross, being used at local strip clubs... The FEMA and Red Cross cards have few restrictions, but some evacuees have gotten into trouble when they tried to get additional cards...Restrictions on the cards say they can't be used to purchase alcohol, tobacco or firearms…
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46361
Embarrassing Bush Photograph Exposes Reuters Contradiction
September 15, 2005… According to an article published by the PDN Newswire Thursday, the picture was snapped by Reuters contract photographer Rick Wilking and shows Bush scribbling a note to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reading, “I think I may need a bathroom break. Is this possible?” …an executive with Reuters [said] anyone doctoring a picture for publication would be immediately fired. …PDN Newswire spoke with one of Reuters' picture editors - Gary Hershorn, who explained that sections of the photo were overexposed so a Reuters processor used the Photoshop technique to “burn down the note.” Hershorn told PDN Newswire that the photo was not manipulated in any way, but that it was standard practice for such news photos to be enhanced….Reuters maintains “very, very strong policies and rules against any doctoring of our photos,” Bourg said, “and all of the people involved with the photographer who shot the picture and the editors who, who chose it and actually transmitted it are very, very long-term employees of Reuters who we trust implicitly and we have absolutely no doubt at all about the authenticity of the photo.”
…The incident has reminded some people of the CBS “60 Minutes” story in September of 2004 that alleged President Bush shirked his duty while with the Texas Air National Guard in the 1970s. However, the documents used in the “60 Minutes” story and published on the CBS News website, turned out to be fraudulent. The fallout from the episode resulted in the forced resignations of several CBS News staffers and the hastened departure of CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, who had also anchored the “60 Minutes” story.
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=\Nation\archive\200509\NAT20050915c.html
Kathleen Blanco: I Should Have Called the Military
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco's abrupt decision Wednesday night to take responsibility for her state's inadequate response to the Hurricane Katrina disaster followed an inadvertent confession that was caught on camera where Blanco admitted she blew it... “I really should have called for the military,” Blanco said, while chatting with her press secretary in between TV interviews. “I really should have started that in the first call.” ...Unbeknownst to Blanco, her bombshell acknowledgment was recorded on a network satellite feed, and by Tuesday the clip was getting wide exposure in Louisiana news broadcasts....Some say Blanco's blooper was responsible for the abrupt change of tone in her speech Wednesday night to the Louisiana legislature...Where earlier she and her aides had openly blamed the Bush administration for bungling Katrina rescue efforts, Blanco announced: “The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.”...Just as surprising were Blanco's words of praise for the White House: “I want the people of Louisiana to know that we have a friend and a partner in President George W. Bush. I thank you, Mr. President.”
http://newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/15/123648.shtml
Politician caught in tearful lie
Parish prez fabricates claim about feds leaving coworker's mom to die
September 15, 2005 [Note: Louisiana has Parishes not Counties] The president of a Louisiana parish tearfully told a national TV audience the heartbreaking story of a coworker whose mother was left to die in a flooded nursing home days after Hurricane Katrina immobilized New Orleans – but, as it turns out, the story isn't true. The blog WuzzaDem.com uncovered the truth-stretching rhetoric of Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard's account he shared on “Meet the Press” Sept. 4 as he emotionally complained about lack of federal response to Katrina victims.
Here is Broussard's story broadcast on the NBC news show:
The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in a St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, “Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?” And he said, “Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday.” And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night.
The Friday night Broussard is talking about was Sept. 2, but it turns out the woman actually died Aug. 29, the previous Monday, when Katrina hit the Gulf Coast.
...Reported WuzzaDem.com: “Broussard claims Rodrigue was talking to his mother for four days after she died, promising here some nebulous 'cavalry' was on the way. His story doesn't jibe with the reporting of CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, or even Thomas Rodrigue's own account.
...”Aaron Broussard's crocodile tears came at the tail-end of a tirade against FEMA, in response to a question from [host] Tim Russert asking whether the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana could have been 'more forceful, much more effective and much more organized in evacuating the area.'“
The site claims Broussard, a Democrat, was “trying to score political points” by blaming federal officials when Louisiana's emergency plan explicitly designates local officials as those responsible for pre-disaster evacuation and for responding directly after an event.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46344
http://www.freewill-predestination.com
posted by David Bennett | 6:30 PM
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