Turning tide -- the racism and cynicism of the Bush administration

In the wake of the catastrophic Katrina, United States President George W Bush seemed as keen to grab a place in history as Saddam Hussein. The deposed Iraqi leader devastated the natural habitat of the Marsh Arabs of the Tigris and Euphrates Delta. Bush was caught following in Saddam's footsteps: abandoning the African Americans of the Mississippi Delta. The contempt in which the Bush administration holds human life, at home and abroad, comes as no great surprise to America's long-suffering underdogs. Yesterday they were lynched, today they are washed away in cities that have metamorphosed into corpse-clogged cesspools. African Americans are angry. They don't want to be consigned to the same dread bin as the Marsh Arabs. They are speaking out, and are being heard.