Chicago Tribune – A look at what life has been like aboard the USS Bataan this week, and how much more it could have contributed to the relief effort in New Orleans. As it has literally steamed in circles this week in the Gulf of Mexico, it serves as a symbol of the US government’s disastrous response to the aftermath of Hurrican Katrina.
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Daily Archives: September 4, 2005
US Marines – Bush orders more troops to Gulf Coast
CNN – The 1st and 2nd Marine Expeditionary Forces are to be sent to the Gulf Coast.
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Iraq – Occupational Hazards
Foreign Affairs – Two postmortems on the Iraq occupation lambaste Washington for handling the job poorly. But doing much better would be so difficult that perhaps the bar should be raised for going to war in the first place.