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To: one_less who wrote (479057)	5/8/2009 10:49:59 AM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) of 1574818

"The fault of the tragedy, if it goes to the government at all, goes back through several Administrations. It has been known for a long time that the levee failure would almost for sure occur when a 3+ hurricane hit." Yawn. This is the sort of mendacity that i-node regularly engages it. The issue isn't whether or not the levees breached, despite Smirk's claims to the contrary that was always on the table, it was the response. The fact of the matter is that we responded quicker to the tsunami in Sri Lanka, half a world away, than we did to New Orleans, which I believe is on the same continent with the rest of the country. There was no federal response until Dubya dragged himself off of vacation and publicity tours. And the initial response was all oriented towards photo ops. Now granted, politicians are all for photo ops, but to so obviously delay help just because not all of the pieces are in place for them is what scratched Smirk's teflon. Which is why Katrina, or more accurately the response to Katrina, was the inflection point that doomed the Bush administration.

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