SURELY SUCH COLD-BLOODED DECEPTION CAN'T BE TRUE?

"But perhaps the greatest disappointment stands at the breached 17th Street levee. Touring this critical site yesterday with the President, I saw what I believed to be a real and significant effort to get a handle on a major cause of this catastrophe. Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment."

US Senator Mary L. Landrieu, Louisiana press release

From the crooksandliars video: "She burst into tears as she looked at a single crane working to help repair the levees...

Landrieu... 'The President could have funded it, he cut it out of the budget. Is that the most pitiful sight you have ever seen in your life? -One little crane.'"

And from War and Piece:

"There was a striking dicrepancy between the CNN International report on the Bush visit to the New Orleans disaster zone, yesterday, and reports of the same event by German TV.

ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time.

The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves, said ZDF."