On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Michael Hipp wrote: > Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Alma J Wetzker wrote: > >>Or is the real problem that it no longer looks like Bush can be blamed > >>if you are aware of these facts? > > > > > > I've yet to see any evidence to support that. > > The two articles mentioned here contain plenty of it. As do many other > sources that corroborate much of it. What *would* constitute evidence? > > Does such not serve to at least cast doubt on the "it's all Bush's > fault" cry? > > - The mayor had an emergency plan that might very well have greatly > reduced the suffering and loss of life and an implied commitment to > follow that plan. He didn't. > > - The governor was well aware of the risk facing New Orleans from a Cat5 > storm and could have asked for federal help days earlier. She didn't. > > - I've read at various places that the feds (NG and FEMA) had personnel > and provisions at staging areas inland waiting on the order to move > (which came days late). > > - FEMA responded in about the same way and same timeliness they usually > do (and it's not particularly impressive, but that's not unique to this > administration). > > Thus far the only thing I can find to pin on Bush in this catastrophe is > that he appointed an unqualified political hack to head an agency that > desperately needs someone with real operational experience. (Not that > such is in any way a small thing, but whether it would have affected the > outcome is debatable.) > > I see references here and there to the Corps of Engrs budget for the > levees being cut in the Bush budget, but whether that contributed to the > levee failures I dunno. > > Tell me what I'm missing.
Apparently not much, other than you're glossing over the obvious failures that you noted above from the Bush administration. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org _______________________________________________ [email protected] Unsub/Pause/Etc : http://mail.linux-sxs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/general
