From: "Mark" 

Sorry Rich, I still read it as you being upset that it will take away from
an entirely partisan attack on Bush. I mean, really, is there any other way
to interpret: "Just when the heat is on this administration..." ?

In the meantime, in more important world news about freedom for all: Bush:
... Tomorrow, President Talabani and I will take our seats at the United
Nations in New York. The session will mark the first time in a half-century
that Iraq is represented by a freely elected government. ...

Talabani: Thank you. Thank you, Mr. President, for your kind remarks. It is
honor for me to stand here today as a representative of free Iraq. It is an
honor to present the world's youngest democracy.

In the name of Iraqi people, I say to you, Mr. President, and to the
glorious American people, thank you, thank you. Thank you, because you
liberated us from the worst kind of dictatorship. Our people suffered too
much from this worst kind of dictatorship....
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/09/20050913-5.html



"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
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> Everyone knows that Katrina was a neoconservative
>
> The disaster itself had nothing to do with politics but the handling of
> the response most certainly does. Besides taking valuable resources away
> from legitimate rescue operations this idiot's actions may dilute efforts
> to seek a valid non-partisan inquiry.
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> Why do you categorize this disaster in entirely political terms Rich?
>>
>> It sounds as if you're more worried about this guy being a Dem and
>> providing relief for a partisan attack on the president, than you are
>> about either the victims of the storm or his possible motives in getting
>> a laptop out of his house in view of the ongoing investigations into his
>> questionable activities...
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>> news:43278b0e{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Just when the heat is on this administration someone from the opposition
>>> does something incredibly stupid.
>>>
>>>
http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/HurricaneKatrina/story?id=1123495&page=1
>>>
>>>
>>> Sept. 13, 3005 - Amid the chaos and confusion that engulfed New Orleans
>>> after Hurricane Katrina struck, a local congressman used National Guard
>>> troops to check on his property and rescue his personal belongings -
>>> even while New Orleans residents were trying to get rescued from
>>> rooftops, ABC News has learned.
>>>
>>> On Friday, Sept. 2 - five days after Katrina hit the Gulf Coast - Rep.
>>> William Jefferson, D-La., who represents New Orleans and is a senior
>>> member of the powerful Ways and Means Committee, was allowed through the
>>> military blockades set up around the city to reach the Superdome, where
>>> thousands of evacuees had been taken.
>>>
>>> Military sources tells ABC News that Jefferson, an eight-term Democratic
>>> congressman, asked the National Guard that night to take him on a tour
>>> of the flooded portions of his congressional district. A 5-ton military
>>> truck and a half dozen military police were dispatched.
>>>
>>> Lt. Col. Pete Schneider of the Louisiana National Guard tells ABC News
>>> that during the tour, Jefferson asked that the truck take him to his
>>> home on Marengo Street, in the affluent uptown neighborhood in his
>>> congressional district. According to Schneider, this was not part of
>>> Jefferson's initial request.
>>>
>>> Jefferson defended the expedition, saying he set out to see how
>>> residents were coping at the Superdome and in his neighborhood. He also
>>> insisted that he did not ask the National Guard to transport him.
>>>
>>> "I did not seek the use of military assets to help me get around my
>>> city," Jefferson told ABC News. "There was shooting
going on. There was
>>> sniping going on. They thought I should be escorted by some military
>>> guards, both to the convention center the Superdome and uptown."
>>>
>>> The water reached to the third step of Jefferson's house, a military
>>> source familiar with the incident told ABC News, and the vehicle pulled
>>> up onto Jefferson's front lawn so he wouldn't have to walk in the water.
>>> Jefferson went into the house alone, the source says, while the soldiers
>>> waited on the porch for about an hour.
>>>
>>> Finally, according to the source, Jefferson emerged with a laptop
>>> computer, three suitcases, and a box about the size of a small
>>> refrigerator, which the enlisted men loaded up into the truck.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Two weeks later, the vehicle's tire tracks were still visible on the
>>> lawn.
>>>
>>> The Louisiana National Guard tells ABC News the truck became stuck as it
>>> waited for Jefferson to retrieve his belongings.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The soldiers signaled to helicopters in the air for aid. Military
>>> sources say a Coast Guard helicopter pilot saw the signal and flew to
>>> Jefferson's home. The chopper was already carrying four rescued New
>>> Orleans residents at the time.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> A rescue diver descended from the helicopter, but the congressman
>>> decided against going up in the helicopter, sources say. The pilot sent
>>> the diver down again, but Jefferson again declined to go up the
>>> helicopter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> After spending approximately 45 minutes with Jefferson, the helicopter
>>> went on to rescue three additional New Orleans residents before it ran
>>> low on fuel and was forced to end its mission.
>>>
>>> "Forty-five minutes can be an eternity to somebody that
is drowning, to
>>> somebody that is sitting in a roof, and it needs to be used its primary
>>> purpose during an emergency," said Hauer.
>>>
>>> Jefferson's Homes Searched in Unrelated Investigation
>>>
>>>
>>> In an unrelated matter, authorities have recently searched Jefferson's
>>> property as part of a federal investigation into the finances of a
>>> high-tech firm. Last month FBI officials raided Jefferson's house as
>>> well as his home in Washington, D.C., his car and his accountant's
>>> house.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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