Was George W. Bush watching television? Or did he continue to ride his bicycle around his ranch, located about an hour's flight away from the foundering of New Orleans? How did he manage not to see those images of clusters of humanity clinging to rooftops, screaming for help, or shut in without water or food, side by side with corpses left in their wheelchairs - those images that American television showed live to all America and the whole world? In any case, at the end of four days, Bush understood that it was time to have a look-see on the ground, in Baton Rouge. |
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