[lbo-talk] Body Count Politics

[Chuck]

Has anyone noticed how the press has been downplaying the death estimates 
from New Orleans?  The official count as of 9/11 is 154.  Given the Bush 
administrations manipulation of data in the past (the downplaying of  the 
asbestos threat after 9/11/2001, for example) how are we to ever believe any 
numbers that come from government agencies?  How many bodies will be 
disappeared on the grounds that it is not hygenic to keep rotting corpses 
around.  This administration has a real poor record when it comes to 
discussing the facts with citizens.  I fear we will have to wait for years 
for the true facts to be known and when we do learn the facts, it will be 
clear things are much worse than anyone would have guessed.

Chuck