"Katrina hit right on target! Now i'll use my mental powers given to me by 5th dimension overlords to bring down the Levy! ZZZZZZZZZz...."
So, what Bush expected to jump into the nearest phone booth and become superman so he could personally rescue all the people? What on earth do they expect him to do?
IOW: Bush gave the order. /sarc
There is so much to say about this article some good some bad. However this is one important thing that is not pointed out as to BUSH. IN the late 90's I had to evacuate from NOLA because the big one was coming. I was in the French Quarter saw a hurricane in the gulf noted it and me and my friends proceeded to party till 3am. The next morning the city was in chaos. Morial had ordered an evacuation of the city. It was madness getting out of their. At the end of the day only 50 percent had left. Louisiana learned from this and thats one reason why 80 percent of the city had evacuated and it was much more smoother this time. The point is this if that hurricane had not changed course at the last moment and hit Mississippi then it would have been much like Katrina. Now would have President Clinton gotten the blame like Bush is getting of course not. The only difference would have been would the death toll in the 90's would have been much higher. The fact that the administration knew there were problems is no different than the Clinton administration. But the NYT doesnt point that out
Must have been listening to Led Zepplin during the party.
"¶Federal officials knew long before the storm showed up on the radar that 100,000 people in New Orleans had no way to escape a major hurricane on their own and that the city had finished only 10 percent of a plan for how to evacuate its largely poor, African-American population."
Awww. Where was baby doc Nagin and the Blanco? The 10% plan called for the rest of the country to provide deluxe buses. What was wrong with your buses in the lot?
"Mr. Chertoff failed to name a principal federal official to oversee the response before the hurricane arrived"
Mr Chertoff and the rest of those guys were warning the NO and LA for a week before. The feds were ready, NO and LA weren't.
"The New Orleans Police Department unit assigned to the rescue effort, despite many years' worth of flood warnings and requests for money, had just three small boats and no food, water or fuel to supply its emergency workers."
Plenty of scalawags, shoplifters and MIAs though.
President Bush should order an audit of all Federal money given to Louisiana to improve the levees around New Orleans over the last 20 years. Find out what happened to the funds.
Heck, I was sitting here a long way from the hurricane, in Tennessee, and I knew a big one was going to hit a town below sea level.
Utter lies. City officials were HIDING the truth of non-preparedness from their own emergency management personnel. Anyone who questioned preparedness was cut out of the loop. Money for hurricane preparedness was being diverted. Dig deep enough and the truth will be found.
It is interesting to note that nobody is talking about the cause of the levy break. Eye witnesses saw the levy break when a contruction barge that was loose and driven by the heavy winds rammed into the levy. No amount of levy engineering could have withstood that type of impact.
I am more than tired of all this news. I post but no longer read the 'articles'.
Bush is to blame for failing to anticipate and adjust for the abject incompetence of the local government.
If New Orleans had be predominately white and Republican then the head line would have read that it was state and local governments fault for not having planning.
New York Slimes a despicable rag it surely has become.
...Where is this from? I mean does the NYT cite its source?
"Federal officials knew long before the storm showed up on the radar that 100,000 people in New Orleans had no way to escape a major hurricane on their own and that the city had finished only 10 percent of a plan for how to evacuate its largely poor, African-American population."
Another evil white racist plot to hold back minorities.
If Bush knew, then Blanco knew, then Nagin knew....Hell, National Geographic knew 12 years ago that there was a problem. But for some reason IT'S ALL BUSH'S FAULT.
Could you even IMAGINE what the Slimes and all MSM would be saying if Bush had marched in there 5 minutes before the hurricane, announced he was taking full control, and stuffed the poor black residents into school buses and sent them north?
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For a start, there was no way to predict accurately that the hurricane was actually going to make landfall exactly in that place, and the levees had apparently been defective for some time...long before Bush came to the WH. Of course, that is not reasonable to anybody looking to impeach Bush, so they'll go forward with this as if he ordered the levees breached, knew exactly when and where the hurricane was hit...since he ordered it, didn't he?
These people would be all over the right if they even suggested in a back room that any democrat had been negligible.
How could the White House know of a levee failure the night of the storm when the levee apparently didn't fail the night of the storm? My recollection is it failed a day or two AFTER the storm.
"Katrina hit right on target! Now i'll use my mental powers given to me by 5th dimension overlords to bring down the Levy! ZZZZZZZZZz...."
