Why hasn't the media reported that after Katrina when our own government hadn't done anything, people in New Orleans who still had working cell phones started calling the French consulates when things got really desperate??? Apparently a lot of people were calling and eventually, some very old woman who spoke French got through to the main embassy in Washington, DC. The people working there, like all of us, had been watching everything on CNN for days and when they realized she spoke French, they put her on speaker phone - some of the embassy people listening got very upset after this and a high official called the French president in the middle of the night and got him out of bed. Then he called President Bush, who was still at his ranch in Texas, and said if Bush didn't do something soon he was going to humiliate Pres Bush by calling a press conference offering to send in the French military on a humanitarian aid mission. Only then did our own president fly back to Washington!!!
2007-09-26
16:49:50
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Ron G
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