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To: i-node who wrote (249067)	9/3/2005 6:53:53 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572073

>>> How come reporters got there on Wednesday and showed us the extent of the damage? Uh, getting reporters in is a different thing from getting relief in in sizable quantities. How come the soldiers and aid waited to go into NO until Friday? After all, nothing changed........the same roads were passable all week. How come a badly needed Navy medical supply ships did not load up medical supplies and leave VA until Friday and won't get to the Gulf until next Thursday? How come the second ship won't get there until mid Sept? How come on the second day of the hurricanes in FLA Bush was seen with his brother unloading ice but didn't show up in the Gulf until yesterday? How come an aircraft carrier with needed helicoptors did not leave VA until Thursday? How come the principal members of Bush's administration were on holiday and are just starting to come back to deal with this problem? I could go on......there are many unanswered questions and many examples of negligence or incompetence......I don't know what to call it. And I know you don't have the answers to these questions but they should make you wonder what went wrong because the truth is.......the unpartisan truth is......that something went very wrong with the gov't's response to this disaster and because of that foulup many more people died than needed to.......many more people suffered than should have. BTW its okay to admit that something went wrong......Mr. Bush already has and the party understands.

To: i-node who wrote (249067)	9/3/2005 8:48:23 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572073

"FEMA head Michael Brown had no previous disaster management experience when he was brought on board by the Bush administration in 2001 (originally as deputy director, then as director). But apparently it's actually worse than that. Laura Rozen summarizes: Not only was FEMA chief Michael D. Brown a former attorney for the Lyons, Colorado based International Arabian Horse Association, but he was actually fired from the International Arabian Horse Association. A Kos poster writes that his colleagues says he was fired for being an "unmitigated, total...disaster". The NYT profiles him here. Even I am staggered — Brown was the lawyer for the horse association not back in the 1980s or 1990s, but until 2001 when he was brought into FEMA as deputy director by Joe Allbaugh. Incredible. Yes. Incredible. But not hard to believe. Before joining the Bush administration in 2001, Brown spent 11 years as the commissioner of judges and stewards for the International Arabian Horse Association..."This was his full-time job...for 11 years," [a spokeswoman] added. Brown was forced out of the position after a spate of lawsuits over alleged supervision failures. "He was asked to resign," Bill Pennington, president of the IAHA at the time, confirmed last night. Soon after, Brown was invited to join the administration by his old Oklahoma college roommate Joseph Allbaugh, the previous head of FEMA until he quit in 2003 to work for the president's re-election campaign." (Joseph Allbaugh currently is a lobbyist for Kellog, Brown and Root (i.e. Halliburton).) washingtonmonthly.com