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Confederacy of Dunces USA

Welcome to the confederacy of dunces usa. This blog is inspired by the effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the Gulf Coast USA and named after the novel A Confederacy of Dunces by New Orleans native John Kennedy Toole. Certainly the disaster response efforts have been led by the dunces....

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Is the death toll carelessness or misfortune?


As we mark the first anniversary of Katrina changing our lives, it is worth pausing for a minute to reflect on the human toll associated directly or indirectly with the Dunce in Chief.

Katrina: 1836
9/11: 2793
Iraq War (just the US military deaths): 2671 (and rising, plus 250 coalition deaths)
Afghan War (just the US military deaths): 272

In the words of Oscar Wilde (from The Importance of Being Earnest), "To lose one parent Mr Worthing may be regarded as misfortune, to lose two looks like carelessness." Mr Bush has lost 7521 US citizens, not to mention the untold thousands of civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan. I'm prepared to forgive the 272 deaths in Afghanistan just because I supported that war--though it is worth noting that most of the deaths occurred after the Dunce in Chief abandoned the task at hand in that country. For a man who runs on a platform of making America safer, he is losing a surprisingly large number of Americans. We are not safer, we are suffering horribly at the hands of one of the most careless men in history.

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