Katrina, The Bush Blame Game and the Stupidity of America...
OK boys and girls...According to the New York Times, Republican Aides have admitted that blaming State and Local officials for the incompetence was Rove's idea to take the heat off of Bush.
Governor Blanco asked for aid by August 28, 2005
The battered Louisiana Governor is now being blamed by the Bush administration for dragging her feet. My question is how could she have been dragging her feet to get relief for New Orleans if she asked Bush for aid to evacuate New Orleans BEFORE Katrina came ashore?
If you want to blame it on someone for dragging their feet, it was not Blanco.
The Mayor and Police Chief of New Orleans stayed with their people through it all
To try and blame these man shows blatent stupidity as well because both stayed with the people of New Orleans under the same conditions they were in. They did all they could to save lives. The Republican controlled Congress was not forgiving when they slashed budgets all across America, cutting funds for first responders and such. New Orleans' Mayor has been a rock under the worst of circumstances and any coward who would attempt to say he did not help as best he could would most likely be one who would desert everyone else to save their own skin in such a traumatic situation. The same goes for New Orleans' Police Chief.
The States of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi all sent Bush Emergency Declarations before Katrina hit because budget cuts had left all three without the means to handle all of the preparations.
NORTHCOM prepared for Katrina in order to respond to her aftermath. They had strict orders NOT TO GO ANYWHERE. All they could do is sit on their hands and watch people die because they were not allowed to go help without Bush's say-so.
If you want to cast blame, put such blame on the one's deserving of it.
It's bad enough to have American citizens being hung out to dry like this. Add to that the incompetence of this administration and then fanatical religios idiots that claim Katrina was God's retribution...Scarborough has stated that gays, our backing of Israel's pullout of Gaza, and such pissed God off so he punished us with Katrina. Christian fanatics and extremists like Scarborough or Pat Robertson are no better than Islamic extremists like Bin Laden.
Otherwise it would be preferable that you not expose American stupidity to the entire world...we look bad enough already...
posted by Myst @ 8:39 PM
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Myst,
I'll be away for a few days, back Monday. Keep fighting the good fight!
hehe... see you're getting the spam crawlers on your sight. (top comment)
Errr.... SITE ... not SIGHT (in a rush)
Yea...but I can delete them.
It is a shame that on such a catastrophic subject, some people have nothing better to do than show their stupidity.
Good to see you!
nazi
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