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Yet the response to Hurricane [Katrina] was "incredibly more efficient" than that of the international community to the Boxing Day tsunami, [Michael D Brown] thought. "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job," the president duly congratulated him when Bush belatedly toured Louisiana. (Can a Presidential Medal of Freedom for Brown be far off?)
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The American Myth has Created a Dangerous Complacency
'The American myth, fostered by popular culture, has created a complacency that is dangerous not only for the rest of the world but for Americans themselves'
We know, now, that there was not even a Prescott in charge in Washington. President Bush was exorcising heaven-knows-what demons by furiously riding his mountain bike in Texas nobody, not even the Secret Service or a visiting Lance Armstrong, is allowed to pass him - while Vice-President Cheney was fly-fishing m Wyoming. Condoleezza Rice, next in charge, was shopping for shoes at Ferragamo's and watching Spamalot on Broadway and catching the US Open in New York; while Andy Card, the White House chief of staff, who is supposed to keep it all together, was taking in the sea breeze with much of the rest...See the full content of this document
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