Rain Monkey
September 11th, 2005, 09:29 AM
<a href="http://www.corpse.org/">NEW ORLEANS OR BAGHDAD?</a>
By Andrei Codrescu
"The Bush administration wrote off New Orleans because it's not part of America , it's merely part of the coming American empire. The President referred to us as “that part of the world.” Not “part of our country,” but part of a world that, like Iraq , has to be secured by armies, not saved through compassion."
"There are more helicopters overhead than people in the city now. Earlier this year, the Pentagon staged a military exercise using New Orleans as a model insurgent Iraqi city. Jets flew overhead, battle ships came up the Mississippi and helicoper-gunships flew low over the French Quarter and the Ninth Ward with loudspeakers broadcasting the message, “Stay in your houses! We are friends of the Iraqi people!” Today, the Ninth Ward is still under water and I'm not sure America is our friend."
"The FEMA website is directing people to donate money to Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing. It is the third recommended charity on the FEMA list: the first is the Red Cross."
By Andrei Codrescu
"The Bush administration wrote off New Orleans because it's not part of America , it's merely part of the coming American empire. The President referred to us as “that part of the world.” Not “part of our country,” but part of a world that, like Iraq , has to be secured by armies, not saved through compassion."
"There are more helicopters overhead than people in the city now. Earlier this year, the Pentagon staged a military exercise using New Orleans as a model insurgent Iraqi city. Jets flew overhead, battle ships came up the Mississippi and helicoper-gunships flew low over the French Quarter and the Ninth Ward with loudspeakers broadcasting the message, “Stay in your houses! We are friends of the Iraqi people!” Today, the Ninth Ward is still under water and I'm not sure America is our friend."
"The FEMA website is directing people to donate money to Pat Robertson's Operation Blessing. It is the third recommended charity on the FEMA list: the first is the Red Cross."