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By Michael Depp
Reuters
6 Feb 06
NEW ORLEANS - Shortcomings in aid from the U.S. government are making New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin look to other nations for help in rebuilding his hurricane-damaged city.

Nagin, who has hosted a steady stream of foreign dignitaries since Hurricane Katrina hit in late August, says he may seek international assistance because U.S. aid has not been sufficient to get the city back on its feet.

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"I know we had a little disappointment earlier with some signals we're getting from Washington but the international community may be able to fill the gap," Nagin said when a delegation of French government and business officials passed through on Friday to explore potential business partnerships.

Jordan's King Abdullah also visited New Orleans on Friday and Nagin said he would encourage foreign interests to help redevelop some of the areas hardest hit by the storm.

"France can take Treme. The king of Jordan can take the Lower Ninth Ward," he said, referring to two of the city's neighborhoods.

Katrina flooded 80 percent of the city and killed more than 1,300 people in Louisiana and Mississippi.

The Bush administration has pledged billions of dollars to Katrina victims but five months after the storm, New Orleans remains largely in ruins.

Nagin said his message to President George W. Bush would be that the federal government needs to refocus on the devastated area.

"We need your undivided attention over the next six months," he said. "We need backup. We need for you to make the words that you spoke in Jackson Square a reality."

Nagin was referring to the president's September 15 address to the nation from New Orleans, in which he pledged "we will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes" to rebuild.

French Transport Minister Dominique Perben, leading the French delegation to a city that was founded by France in 1718, said, "This catastrophe has deeply upset the French people and the French government."

France, Perben said through a translator, "wants to be a long-term partner for Louisiana and New Orleans."

Comment: Now that is so totally pathetic we are rendered speechless. Not only are the Neocon Thugs fleecing the American people to pay their cronies for more and better bombs and WMDs, they have exposed America to this embarrassment: they can't even help their own. Somebody find us a sickbag.
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So this is what it has come to. What a pathetic shame. What an embarassment. I can hardly believe it. If people don't wake up, and wake up soon, then they will be like the sentry who slept on his watch -- they'll never feel the sword the pierce them.  Bush just put forth a $2.7 TRILLION dollar budget. It boosts spending on psychopathic desires and cuts or severely trims spending on things that could be considered to be based in empathy, understanding, togetherness, obligation, and true need.

I am completely dumbfounded that somehow we've come to be ruled by PSYCHOPATHS!!! AAAAAAAUUUUUUGHH!!!

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rs:

--- Quote ---I am completely dumbfounded that somehow we've come to be ruled by PSYCHOPATHS!!!
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Don't be dumbfounded.

You have limits to your behavior.  There are simply things that you won't do, or if you did do them, it would bother you (i.e. conscience).

Imagine what you could "accomplish" if you literally did not care about consequences, any option, no matter how outlandish or offensive to others, was "in play"?

If you can imagine the complete absence of concern for anything but your desired result, then it starts to make perfect sense, and it could be no other way.

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