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US still not prepared for catastrophe (by former FEMA Director, Mike Brown)
Reuters ^
| 8/22/06
| Daniel Trotta
Posted on 08/22/2006 8:25:06 PM PDT by PhilipFreneau
One year after Hurricane Katrina, the United States remains unprepared for a major natural disaster, and the Bush administration has failed to learn the lessons of that catastrophe, former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown said on Tuesday.
Brown led FEMA's response to Katrina when the storm devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast after making landfall on August 29. It killed 1,339 people and caused $80 billion in damage, making it the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history.
But Brown was forced to resign from the Department of Homeland Security agency amid the disastrously slow government response, just days after President George W. Bush's infamous accolade, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
"Rather than address the systemic problems that existed within the Department of Homeland Security, we're now addressing superficial things," Brown told Reuters in a telephone interview from his Boulder, Colorado, office.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: bush; chertoff; fema; mikebrown; preparedness
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Mike Brown is doing well for himself, after being stabbed in the back by Chertoff and Bush.
To: PhilipFreneau
You've got to be kidding me
Hey Brownie .. do yourself a favor and shut up
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:27:49 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
To: PhilipFreneau
If you are going to sit and wait for the FedGov to save you...say your prayers now.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:28:04 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: Mo1
Yeah, stick to horses Mikey, they'll treat you much better than the American Public will.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:28:47 PM PDT
by
phoenix0468
(http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
To: PhilipFreneau
Let's see.....the US gov't is supposed to be prepared for EVERY POSSIBLE CATASTROPHE......people that count on the gov't are stuuuuupid.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:29:13 PM PDT
by
goodnesswins
(I think the real problem is islamo-bombia! (Rummyfan))
To: ASOC
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:29:45 PM PDT
by
packrat35
(guest worker/day worker=SlaveMart)
To: PhilipFreneau
I have a constitutional right to nothing bad happening to me
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:31:11 PM PDT
by
woofie
To: PhilipFreneau
after being stabbed in the back by Chertoff and Bush. Hahahahaha.....you bought his swill!
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:32:10 PM PDT
by
Howlin
(Pres.Bush ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing foreign countries right on our borders!!~~Zook)
To: PhilipFreneau
the Bush administration has failed to learn the lessons of that catastrophe, former Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown said on Tuesday. Lesson 1. Disaster response is not a pony show. - Learnt
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:32:15 PM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(\\"You can either accept science and face reality, or live in a childish dream world" - Lisa Simpson)
To: phoenix0468
It wasn't the American public that did Brownie in .. it was the media .. and he didn't help matters with some of his comments
The bottom line is .. the government can't stop catastrophe .. and it especially can't stop a category 5 hurricane
Anyone who thinks it can prevent it or make everything perfect afterwards .. is living in a dream world
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:34:07 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
To: PhilipFreneau
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:34:25 PM PDT
by
Cinnamon
To: Mo1
I agree with you....
Dang...Bush gave him much more of a chance...didn't embarrass him publicly...and yet Brownie was crying like a baby in the Congressional hearings.
Love it...an office in Boulder, Colorado...that tells me all I need to know about him...LOL
BTW...it makes me sick that people like Sean Hannity and others are STILL saying Katrina was Bush's fault.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:34:37 PM PDT
by
Txsleuth
(((((((((ISRAEL))))))) Prayers up for Steve, Olaf, and the Israeli kidnapped soldiers.)
To: Mo1
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:35:20 PM PDT
by
phoenix0468
(http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
To: Mo1
Agreed. Since when is the Federal government supposed to be ready for every natural disaster? In the olden days, not that long ago, the localitites were accountable for their local mishaps. Talk about the evolution of the Nanny State.
The Feds threw billions at New Orleans and the locals are boozing it up watching porn in hotels 500 miles away.
Blanco and Landrieu could have had the filth cleaned up in 6 months if they had any brains and the inclination to do so.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:35:34 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: PhilipFreneau
Funny how whenever Mike Brown has something critical to say about the Bush administration, all of a sudden the guy has sh-t loads of credibility with the same media who tore him to shreds. Suddenly he's a model of competence and knowledgability when he is criticizing the Bush administration with these media clowns.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:37:32 PM PDT
by
MikeA
(Not voting out of anger in November is a vote for Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House)
To: goodnesswins
Bingo - Bango - Bongo! The libs have hypnotized the sheeple into thinking that it is Big Brother to care for their every wish. And there are quite a few dolts here that think that way too.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:38:04 PM PDT
by
Cobra64
(All we get are lame ideas from Republicans and lame criticism from dems about those lame ideas.)
To: PhilipFreneau
Brown should have been ridden out of office on a rail - then his credibility even with hacks like Reuters would have been too low to reach with whatever sort of implement that would-be news agency uses to scrape up interviews.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:38:27 PM PDT
by
Redbob
To: Txsleuth
Dang...Bush gave him much more of a chance...didn't embarrass him publicly...and yet Brownie was crying like a baby in the Congressional hearings The President stuck his neck out for Brownie and took a lot of heat for it also
I don't blame Brown for what happen in NO/LA .. but he sure needs to shut the heck up
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:39:51 PM PDT
by
Mo1
(Bolton- "No one has explained how you negotiate a ceasefire with terrorists")
To: PhilipFreneau
"Brown led FEMA's response to Katrina..."Like Gen. Custer did!
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:39:58 PM PDT
by
Redbob
To: PhilipFreneau
Mr Brown, go way and don't come back.
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posted on
08/22/2006 8:41:16 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Democrats = terrorists)
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