Posted
9/03/2005 04:54:00 PM
by Douglas
Shut your fucking pie hole.At a moment when the dead on the Gulf Coast are still being counted, the German minister of the environment could think of nothing better to do than -- in an essay published Tuesday in the center-left daily Frankfurter Rundschau -- to blame the US itself for the catastrophe. The piece is 493 words long, and not a single one of them is wasted to express any sort of sympathy for the victims of the storm. The worst of it is that Trittin isn't alone with his cold, malicious tenor. The coverage from much of the German media tends in the same direction: If Bush had only listened to Uncle Trittin and signed the Kyoto Protocol, then this never would have happened.
Yeah, the hurricane happened because Bush didn't sign Kyoto. Was it William McKineley's trust busting politics that caused the deadliest storm in American history, the Galveston hurricane of
1900? There's plenty of blame to go around on this on, but let's point the fingers
away from the tin-foil hats chorus of what caused the storm to those who
really fucked up
after the storm blew through and the levees were breached. Because really, that's the only story here.
After all, it's almost a week after Katrina blew through, and there are
still people dying on the streets of New Orleans.