hey, remember these things?
mission accomplished, my ass
The administration receiving many "F"s and "D"s
from the 9-11 commission this week reminded me of a couple of other things that
seem to have slipped out of the American memory banks. Hey, remember Osama Bin
Laden? Remember how he was public enemy #1 after 9/11? Remember how we were
going to "smoke him out of his hole"? Yeah, that never
happened.
Remember how after Hurricane
Katrina George Bush promised that we were going to rebuild New Orleans and the
government was going to launch new initiatives to help the poor? Well, with the
new rounds of tax and budget cuts, the war on Poverty has turned back into the
war on the poor that had been going on since
2000.
A few
predictions:
1) Congress will start
withdrawing troops out of Iraq next year so that Republicans can hold on to
their majority in the elections.
2) In 2008,
we still will not have captured Osama Bin Laden. If we have pulled out of Iraq,
it will be in full-on-civil war, or if we haven't, we will still have our
soldiers attacked daily.
3) Also in 2008, in
New Orleans: The French Quarter, Garden District and downtown will be 100% back
to where they were. In the poor outlying districts, away from the tourists,
nothing will have changed since Katrina and the levees will still be
inadequate.
Posted: Wed - December
14, 2005 at 09:02 AM
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