A compendium of links: Is the nightmare over now? Can we take the garbage out now? Can we be a country again instead of a corporation?

CNN: The big disconnect on New Orleans
The official version; then there's the in-the-trenches version: http://tinyurl.com/abdwo

Washington Post:A Day of Contradictions:http://tinyurl.com/7g32u
Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting:http://tinyurl.com/7gsng
Storm Exposed Disarray at the Top:http://tinyurl.com/dtheh

New York Times: In First Response to Crisis, Bush Strikes Off-Key Notes: http://tinyurl.com/a7bwu
As White House Anxiety Grows, Bush Tries to Quell Political Crisis http://tinyurl.com/7gsng
Leader of Federal Effort Feels the Heat:http://tinyurl.com/dcrdp
A Delicate Balance Is Undone in a Flash, and a Battered City Waits: http://tinyurl.com/92spq

LA Times:Levees' Fate Sealed in Washington:http://tinyurl.com/bfx3t

BBC:New Orleans crisis shames Americans :http://tinyurl.com/8r6f2

Guardian: Blaming Bush: http://tinyurl.com/d6w6y

Times UK: Stakes go up for President who strummed while a city drowned: http://tinyurl.com/a4p6d

New Orleans Times-Picayune: http://tinyurl.com/dcl93

Maureen Dowd: United States of Shame: http://tinyurl.com/ddl74
David Brooks(!?!): The Bursting Point: http://tinyurl.com/d2g2p
Frank Rich: Falluja Floods the Superdome:http://tinyurl.com/bpccu
Jimmy Breslin:While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies:
http://tinyurl.com/du843

The Age(Aus):America stripped bare:http://tinyurl.com/cqpbg

Knight Ridder Newspapers: Head of FEMA has an unlikely
background:http://tinyurl.com/czjfq
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