Last week President Bush ordered the flag at half mast
for Rhenquist, not the disaster.

For next week (Sept.16) he has ordered that there will be a national day of prayer.

He said that the rescue operations have been exemplary and that the recovery teams on the way are more than adequate however some results are unacceptable.

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He has imposed a presidential order to lower wages for workers who will help clean up the disaster and awarded Halliburton another unbid contract.

Between 1953 and 1978 (the middle of the cold war) the National Secrets order was imposed 4 times by Presidents.

For the Bush administration it has been imposed 22 times (mostly to silence whistle blowers who are then subsequently fired - or worse)

He warned us to not MISUNDERESTIMATE him.