Bush Administration Flooded
An El Pa??s editorial suggests that the Bush administration is “flooded by its own incompetence” with respect to the natural disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina. The author finds it especially incompetent, given that the storm which finally struck the coast was weaker than that which had been predicted. The author continues, pointing out that only when the numbers of dead began to be counted in the hundreds, did Bush decide to end his month-long vacation to return to Washington.
La Administraci??n de Bush parece anegada por su propia incompetencia tras el enorme desastre natural que sufre Estados Unidos por efecto del hurac?°n Katrina, pese a que ?©ste resultara de menor intensidad que la prevista. La evacuaci??n ordenada por el alcalde de Nueva Orleans ha evitado probablemente una hecatombe sin precedentes en la primera potencia del mundo. Destaca sobremanera la manifiesta insuficiencia de inversiones y medios de contingencia para proteger a la poblaci??n del delta del Misisip?? de un desastre anunciado. S??lo cuando los muertos han empezado a contarse por centenares, con Nueva Orleans anegada y muchas otras poblaciones devastadas, el presidente Bush ha anticipado tard??amente el final de sus vacaciones para sobrevolar en el Air Force One la zona del desastre que visitar?° hoy por tierra.
The full article in pdf format is available here.
An editorial cartoon in the same issue, pokes fun at the claims that global warming has nothing to do with the increasing severity of storms seen in the last few years:
It must be true all that about climate change.
Nonsense. It’s normal for it to rain.