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President responded quickly to Hurricane Katrina
September 2, 2005 |
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Unfortunately it wasn't the president of the United States, it was our neighbor to the South. Eli Stephens writes:
"Speaking on Cuban television tonight, Castro revealed that on Tuesday, while George Bush was still on vacation playing with his spiffy new guitar, and a day or two before the Secretary of State went shopping for shoes, Cuba contacted the State Department and offered no less than 1,100 doctors to assist in dealing with the crisis. Doctors who, unlike the hospital ship which has yet to leave its berth in Baltimore and isn't scheduled to be in New Orleans until next Saturday (!), could have been on site by Wednesday if the Cuban offer had been accepted."
"It wasn't."(LeftI)
Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet.
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