OK, now your being fair. If your looking at some of the main participants and blaming Bush as one of them and the ultimate end of them then that's fine by me. My problem is with people who blame him first and formost. As for any 'failure', we're still in the middle of this. The beginning sucked. The people failed to do their part, the local government failed or was slow to do theirs and the federal government has been slow on their part as well. There's recognition of the failure and attempts to repair those failures. I see progress and will wait till its all over to say that the effort was a failure or not. The beginning was, but it's not done yet.
And again, there's a head of homeland security that has the job of directing the various departments to secure the country. Yes, Bush is the ultimate 'buck stops here', but the buck has to travel first. If the levies were bombed then the question would go to the security of the city, the state, homeland security and then the president. I don't depend on Bush to secure NY. I have a mayor who has a police force with better weapons and intelligence than the millitary. I trust them first because it's their job to keep me safe first. If a suicide terrorist attacked a train in NY, I expect the police to handle it. When 9/11 hit, it was Guliani that was there first. It was the NY police and fire department who was there first. It wasn't Bush. It wasn't FEMA. I didn't expect it to be them. I expect my local government to be the ones on the job first thing and in NY they were. In LA they were not. After the local then comes the government. (On an aside point, Bush has shafted NY on promised money and support for which I will never forgive him.) >> Michael wrote: >> I'm saying that you should FIRST look at those directly responsable. > >Only Mr. Bush, and he alone, has been given the power to cut red tape >and get things done. But, since you've not moved far from this point, >let's run it down: > >1.) The local officials are responsible for creating the disaster >plan. It sucked. > >2.) FEMA is responsible for coordinating with the local officials both >before and after a disaster; the latter for relief, the former for >prevention. The failed on all counts. > >3.) The President is responsible for monitoring the process to judge >efficacy. He alone has been given the power to make any radical >changes if necessary. He failed to act. > >As I've pointed out, there's only a few possibilities why the >President failed in his responsibility and none of them involve anyone >but him. Since he's the last failsafe, and failed, it's his fault >ultimately. That's the burden that comes with responsibility - if he >didn't want that then he shouldn't have run for President. > >You so stuck on this point that I'm curious about something. >Something that was undoubtedly the President's responsibility was the >Dept of Homeland Security. It was his job to ensure that if the >unthinkable happened we'd have rapid response teams to help secure >America. Clearly they've failed. What if Al Quaeda had bombed those >levees? Would feel it wasn't the President's responsibility to ensure >homeland security by insuring we had an effective DHS? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:172635 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
