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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (66180)	9/2/2005 1:04:08 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Well, that was an appropriate post. Thanks. Dan B.

To: tonto who wrote (66180)	9/2/2005 1:30:26 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

FEMA warned Bush New Orleans was a huge potential disaster in the making. But Bush cut levee improvement funding by more than 80% alonjg with the Delay congress. So anything CLinton did or didn't do 5-13 years ago is largely irrelevant. The real culprit here is Bush's war in Iraq obsession. That useless war sucked up so much money there wasn't much left for anything else in our own country. And so thousands die and new Orleans is destroyed. What a tragedy and failure of leadership. After the Iraq debacle, gas gouging, corruption scandals, fraudulent elections and ignoring the 9-11 warnings the verdict is in. Bush-Cheney-Delay have disgraced the nation. They must go. They have done this country more harm than Al Qaida. Much more harm.

To: tonto who wrote (66180)	9/2/2005 5:24:16 PM
From: techguerrilla	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

I knew some moron would say Clinton's to blame ... john

To: tonto who wrote (66180)	9/2/2005 5:25:47 PM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Waiting for a Leader The New York Times Thursday 01 September 2005 George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast. He advised the public that anybody who wanted to help should send cash, grinned, and promised that everything would work out in the end. We will, of course, endure, and the city of New Orleans must come back. But looking at the pictures on television yesterday of a place abandoned to the forces of flood, fire and looting, it was hard not to wonder exactly how that is going to come to pass. Right now, hundreds of thousands of American refugees need our national concern and care. Thousands of people still need to be rescued from imminent peril. Public health threats must be controlled in New Orleans and throughout southern Mississippi. Drivers must be given confidence that gasoline will be available, and profiteering must be brought under control at a moment when television has been showing long lines at some pumps and spot prices approaching $4 a gallon have been reported. Sacrifices may be necessary to make sure that all these things happen in an orderly, efficient way. But this administration has never been one to counsel sacrifice. And nothing about the president's demeanor yesterday - which seemed casual to the point of carelessness - suggested that he understood the depth of the current crisis. While our attention must now be on the Gulf Coast's most immediate needs, the nation will soon ask why New Orleans's levees remained so inadequate. Publications from the local newspaper to National Geographic have fulminated about the bad state of flood protection in this beloved city, which is below sea level. Why were developers permitted to destroy wetlands and barrier islands that could have held back the hurricane's surge? Why was Congress, before it wandered off to vacation, engaged in slashing the budget for correcting some of the gaping holes in the area's flood protection? It would be some comfort to think that, as Mr. Bush cheerily announced, America "will be a stronger place" for enduring this crisis. Complacency will no longer suffice, especially if experts are right in warning that global warming may increase the intensity of future hurricanes. But since this administration won't acknowledge that global warming exists, the chances of leadership seem minimal. -------

To: tonto who wrote (66180)	9/2/2005 7:22:45 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

FEMA didn't make that warning until 2001. So I guess you're right. It IS Clinton's fault.

To: tonto who wrote (66180)	9/2/2005 8:39:42 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

The levee funding was demanded in 2004 by the Army Engineers. Bush cut their request by more than 80% which they claimed was woefully inadequate. Clinton has nothing to do with this. He was history for four years by then. The levee work should have been a Homeland Security priority. Terrorists could have bombed the levees if a storm hadn't flooded them. And FEMA warned Bush and HS that a levee break was perhaps the #1 threat to America, along with a SF earthquake. So why are we spending so much money on Homeland Security when they ignore the top threat just to send the money and equipment to Iraq? And if Iraq is now costing us our homeland security, and is now a lost cause, more or less, what are we still doing there? Also obvious is that Bush and all his people knew what we knew, that the flooding was likely. So why wasn't the response in place prior to the storm? Why did it take four days? Absolutely disgraceful. Bush is responsible. He cannot dodge this. There is nowhere else to point fingers. We need new leadership.