- "Team Bush" is still refusing international
aid.
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- * Russian rescue crews on four cargo planes with helicopters
on board sit idle at an airport near Moscow waiting for green light,
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- * Cuba has 1500 doctors with 26 tons of medical supplies
and Bush is refusing them entry to U.S.,
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- * Venezuelan disaster rescue teams wait for a "go,"
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- * Dominican Republic crews with hurricane recovery experience
wait and wait and wait.
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- It's the same scene at airports around the world.
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- Meanwhile, FEMA turned back 8 buses from Washington,
DC that were to bring 400 evacuees to the DC Armory which has been stockpiled
with just about every need. The Bush regime has finally reached the crescendo
of evil.
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- And why is FEMA so incompetent? It was turned into a
political patronage agency by Bush for Bush's campaign lickspittles. This
from a disaster recovery specialist with inside contacts at FEMA:
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- Mike Brown was Joe Allbaugh's college roommate. (Allbaugh
was Bush's first FEMA director). Allbaugh is now a consultant who makes
tons of money for greasing the skids for companies to get business with
the federal government in Iraq and with FEMA.
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- Note to Federal law enforcement: You might want to investigate
the relationship between Allbaugh and IEM, Dewberry, and URS -- the companies
that took $500,000 to develop a "Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan
for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana," a plan they never delivered
and a project for they fraudulently included James Lee Witt Associates
as one of their team partners. The sleazy revolving door spewing out money
spins very fast with the Bush administration.
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- Mike Brown had absolutely no experience in disaster management.
When Allbaugh became director in January, 2001, he politically cleansed
FEMA of anyone who was associated with outgoing director James Lee Witt,
who had done an excellent during the Clinton administration. Allbaugh was
charged with cleaning out of FEMA because of the neocon desire to rid the
Federal bureaucracy of FEMA and replace it with charitable giving as a
means of disaster relief.
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- So, Allbaugh's first priority was to gut FEMA. This
became an even greater priority after the Democrats (especially Joe Lieberman)
forced Bush to create a Department of Homeland Security. FEMA was rolled
into DHS. Allbaugh was caught by the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) using the FEMA Boeing 737 aircraft for private purposes, including
numerous personal trips to Florida and political trips around the country.
The Republican National Committee reimbursed FEMA for the political junkets,
but the embarrassing trips hit the pages of the New York Times and Allbaugh
chose at that time to leave and set up his own consulting business. He
left without any pressure from the White House.
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- In early 2001, The American Arabian Horse Association
fired current FEMA director Mike Brown as its executive secretary after
a non-productive period of employment. Admittedly, Mike Brown had spent
a large part of 2000 campaigning for Bush rather than doing his job, but
the bottom line for the horse association was that Brown neglected his
duties and day to day responsibilities.
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- Brown was lucky. His old college roommate, Allbaugh,
appointed Brown as his number 2 within days of his firing by the horse
association. This cozy relationship was noted throughout the Allbaugh
period. Upon Allbaugh's departure, Brown was designated by Bush to succeed
him as FEMA director. He is called "Brownie" by Bush.
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- "Brownie" has few supporters in FEMA. In fact,
the general commentary is that he lacks basic organizational and management
skills and he is a bullshit artist, not a leader.
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