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9/1 "Bush rejects foreign help, says United States could take care
of itself... Bush defended the federal government's response to
the growing crisis amid urgent pleas for help from stranded victims.
He said the breach of the levees that led to the submerging of much
of New Orleans had not been anticipated."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/weather_bush_dc
Why does Reuters hate GW Bush?
\_ You can criticize Bush without the "why does xyz hate" line.
\_ "The breach had not been anticipated" -- sounds a bit like "who
knew there were no WMDs" -- Faith based administration!
\_ So we are doing what India initially did during the tsunami,
rejecting foreign help out of national pride.
\_ Whoops! Now US accepting aid...
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-09-01-foreignaidkatrina_x.htm |
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| news.yahoo.com/s/nm/weather_bush_dc President Bush said on Thursday looters plundering stores in New Orle ans and elsewhere in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina should b e treated with "zero tolerance" and warned gasoline sellers against char ging artificially high prices. Bill Clinton, will lead a fund-raising effort in the United States fo r hurricane relief, as they did for the December 26 Asian tsunami. The president urged Americans to conserve gasoline as prices soared in re sponse to short supplies. White House spokesman Scott McClellan, asked f or specifics, said the administration was assessing what steps could be taken. We're looking at what needs to be done to a ddress problems," McClellan said. Alan Greenspan and his economic advisers on the US economic impact of Katrina. The Whi te House said it would work with Congress on emergency funds. Bush will travel to the coastal area on Friday for an aerial tour of the disaster and make a couple of stops on the ground. He will see New Orlea ns as well as the battered coast of Alabama and Mississippi. The hurricane and its aftermath have handed Bush his greatest emergency s ince the September 11, 2001, attacks. Iraq war, a leading reason his public approval ratings have dropped to among t he lowest of his presidency. In an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America," Bush drew no line betwee n those looting stores for survival supplies like food and water and tho se stealing television sets that are of no use with electricity out in N ew Orleans. "I think there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law duri ng an emergency such as this, whether it be looting, or price-gouging at the gasoline pump or taking advantage of charitable giving, or insuranc e fraud," Bush said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America." Looting has run rampant in New Orleans as stranded victims of Hurricane K atrina await emergency assistance. "If people need water and food, we're going to do everything we can to ge t them water and food. But it's very important for the citizens in all a ffected areas to take personal responsibility and assume kind of a civic sense of responsibility so the situation doesn't get out of hand, so pe ople don't exploit the vulnerable," Bush said. GASOLINE PRICES Elsewhere around the country, gasoline sellers have been fast to raise pr ices, to more than $3 a gallon and in some places far higher, because of a sudden drop in supplies. Eight oil refineries are down in the Gulf and it will take a while to get them going again, Bush said. He said he expected Saudi Arabia to do "ev erything they can" to provide more oil, although he noted that the Saudi s had "limited capacity" to pump more oil. "I would hope Americans conserve if given a choice," he said. Asked if US oil companies should forfeit profits during the crisis, Bus h said instead American corporations should contribute cash to hurricane relief funds. He said the United States could take care of itself and did not expect to tap contributions from foreign countries. McClellan, however, said fore ign offers of assistance were welcomed and Washington would pursue them. Bush defended the federal government's response to the growing crisis ami d urgent pleas for help from stranded victims. He said the breach of the levees that led to the submerging of much of New Orleans had not been a nticipated. He also defended his own decision to wait until Wednesday to return to Wa shington and cut short by a couple of days a four-week working vacation at his Texas ranch. US President George W Bush and Secretary of Defence Donald Rum sfeld after Bush spoke in the Rose Garden after a meeting with members o f the White House Task Force on Hurricane Katrina Recovery in Washington , DC August 31, 2005. Republication or r edistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the pri or written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any error s or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon . |
| www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-09-01-foreignaidkatrina_x.htm World reaction ranges from scolding to sympathy By James Cox, USA TODAY A top German official said the United States had itself to blame for Hurr icane Katrina. Canada's prime minister waited days to issue condolences. Cuba's Fidel Castro le d a moment of silence for victims of the storm. Foreign reaction to tragic events along the Gulf Coast produced surprises from: Germany. Environment Minister Jurgen Trittin said President Bush had "cl osed his eyes" to the dangers of pollution and climate change, blamed by some scientists for adding to the intensity of hurricanes and other sev ere weather. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder offered aid and assistance to the United Sta tes, but his government didn't back away from Trittin's remarks. Carsten Voigt, coordinator for US relations at the German Foreign Ministry, s aid he agreed with Trittin but took issue with his timing, the German ma gazine Der Spiegel reported. Fiery leader Hugo Chavez, who has fought a war of words with the Bush administration, said his country's state-owned CITGO Petroleum would donate $1 million in hurricane aid. At the same time, Chavez lashe d out at Bush, calling him the "king of vacations." It is incredible the first p ower in the world that is so involved in Iraq ... Critics blasted Prime Minister Paul Martin for staying silent un til late Wednesday, then offering a routine sympathy message. Martin, whose relationship with Bush has been strained by differences on trade and missile defense, showed "a shocking lack of personal support f or the United States," said Stockwell Day, a Conservative member of Parl iament. Canada put its military on standby, offerin g to send troops to deliver relief and purify drinking water. The Canadian Red Cross was compiling lists of volunteers willing to go to Louisiana and Mississippi. "When a close friend and ally is sufferi ng through something this traumatic, moral support matters as much as of fers of aid especially when, in this case, Canada stands to benefit fr om America's misery" through high energy prices, columnist John Ibbitson wrote Thursday in The Globe and Mail, the Toronto daily. They said Katrina was part of their global jihad and prayed that the storm would send oil prices soaring to $100 a barrel. The Council on American-Islamic Rel ations, based in Washington, asked mosques and Islamic centers to collec t donations after prayers today and to send contributions to the America n Red Cross and relief groups. Iraq's National Assembly Speaker Hajim Al-Hasani sent condolences. College students in Jamaica set up a disaster relief fun d A Bosnian TV station announced it would collect donations. In Indonesia's Aceh province, where more than 178,000 were killed by the Dec. Iran, which has not had diplomatic ties with the United States since Isla mist students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran 26 years ago, extended its sympathies. Elsewhere, France said it would send relief teams from the French Antille s in the Caribbean, and President Jacques Chirac sent a message of solid arity to Bush. Italy readied two military transport planes to carry supplies to New Orle ans. It said it would send pumps, generators, tents and disaster experts . Pope Benedict XVI offered prayers for those killed and displaced by th e ferocious storm and flooding. In Havana, Castro and Cuban parliamentarians stood for a minute of silenc e "The whole world should feel that this tragedy is its own," Speaker R icardo Alarcon said. Queen Elizabeth II sent a note to Bush saying she was "deeply shocked and saddened." Chinese President Hu Jintao said "the American people will o vercome the natural disaster and rebuild their beautiful homeland." |