i got this from my friend ryan's site....

A few truths, for those who have ears and eyes and care to know the truth:

1.)
The hurricane that hit New Orleans and Mississippi and Alabama was an
astonishing tragedy. The suffering and loss of life and peace of mind
of the residents of those areas is acutely horrifying.

2.)
George Bush did not cause the hurricane. Hurricanes have been happening
for eons. George Bush did not create them or unleash this one.

3.)
George Bush did not make this one worse than others. There have been
far worse hurricanes than this before George Bush was born.

4.) There is no overwhelming evidence that global warming exists as
a man-made phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence that global
warming even exists. There is no clear evidence that if it does exist
it makes hurricanes more powerful or makes them aim at cities with
large numbers of poor people. If global warming is a real phenomenon,
which it may well be, it started long before George Bush was
inaugurated, and would not have been affected at all by the Kyoto
treaty, considering that Kyoto does not cover the world's worst
polluters -- China, India, and Brazil. In a word, George Bush had zero
to do with causing this hurricane. To speculate otherwise is belief in
sorcery.

5.) George Bush had nothing to do with the hurricane
contingency plans for New Orleans. Those are drawn up by New Orleans
and Louisiana. In any event, the plans were perfectly good: mandatory
evacuation. It is in no way at all George Bush's fault that about 20
percent of New Orleans neglected to follow the plan. It is not his
fault that many persons in New Orleans were too confused to realize how
dangerous the hurricane would be. They were certainly warned. It's not
George Bush's fault that there were sick people and old people and
people without cars in New Orleans. His job description does not
include making sure every adult in America has a car, is in good
health, has good sense, and is mobile.

6.) George Bush did not
cause gangsters to shoot at rescue helicopters taking people from
rooftops, did not make gang bangers rape young girls in the Superdome,
did not make looters steal hundreds of weapons, in short make New
Orleans into a living hell.

7.) George Bush is the least racist
President in mind and soul there has ever been and this is shown in his
appointments over and over. To say otherwise is scandalously untrue.

8.)
George Bush is rushing every bit of help he can to New Orleans and
Mississippi and Alabama as soon as he can. He is not a magician. It
takes time to organize huge convoys of food and now they are starting
to arrive. That they get in at all considering the lawlessness of the
city is a miracle of bravery and organization.

9.) There is not
the slightest evidence at all that the war in Iraq has diminished the
response of the government to the emergency. To say otherwise is pure
slander.

10.) If the energy the news media puts into blaming
Bush for an Act of God worsened by stupendous incompetence by the New
Orleans city authorities and the malevolence of the criminals of the
city were directed to helping the morale of the nation, we would all be
a lot better off.

11.) New Orleans is a great city with many
great people. It will recover and be greater than ever. Sticking pins
into an effigy of George Bush that does not resemble him in the
slightest will not speed the process by one day.

12.) The entire
episode is a dramatic lesson in the breathtaking callousness of
government officials at the ground level. Imagine if Hillary Clinton
had gotten her way and they were in charge of your health care.

Why is it that the snipers who shot at emergency rescuers trying to
save people in hospitals and shelters are never mentioned except in
passing, and Mr. Bush, who is turning over heaven and earth to rescue
the victims of the storm, is endlessly vilified?

What church
does Rev. Al Sharpton belong to that believes in passing blame and
singling out people by race for opprobrium and hate?

What
special abilities does the media have for deciding how much blame goes
to the federal government as opposed to the city government of New
Orleans for the aftereffects of Katrina?

If able-bodied people
refuse to obey a mandatory evacuation order for a city, have they not
assumed the risk that ill effects will happen to them?

When the
city government simply ignores its own sick and hospitalized and
elderly people in its evacuation order, is Mr. Bush to blame for that?

Is
there any problem in the world that is not Mr. Bush's fault, or have we
reverted to a belief in a sort of witchcraft where we credit a mortal
man with the ability to create terrifying storms and every other kind
of ill wind?

Where did the idea come from that salvation comes from hatred and criticism and mockery instead of love and co-operation?