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By Art Buchwald

Thursday, September 8, 2005

We get our news in "Sound Bites From Hell." These are the ones we got all week.

"Worst natural disaster in American history."

"Worst man-made disaster, following the worst hurricane in history."

"There is enough blame to go around for everybody."

"The federal government came in too late."

"Everyone was warned days in advance that New Orleans was threatened because it was below sea level."

"Everyone knew the levees would break, but no one was willing to do anything about it."

"The governor of Louisiana was late in calling out the National Guard and Washington was late in calling it a crisis."

"There was looting, rape, starvation, anger and death because people couldn't get out of town."

"Most of the victims didn't know how to get out of town because they didn't know where to go."

"Thousands sought shelter at the Superdome and the convention center, and waited days for the buses to rescue them."

"It was a racist thing. The officials denied it. But the TV pictures keep showing African Americans in desperate straits."

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