One week ago

A CNN video: Jack Cafferty

http://mikx2.com/assetts/multimedia/The-Situation-Room-Cafferty-on Katrina.wmv

I gotta tell you somthing - no one, no one ...

never, ever seen anything as poorly bungled...

 

Well, yesterday the President declared that "to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong."

Only the previous Monday, Bush had denied that the federal efforts had been too slow, that African-Americans had been disadvantaged, or that there had been any Iraq-related shortage of troops or National Guard.

So since the President may not be aware of the full extent of what he is taking responsibility for, I thought I might set the record straight:
The Profiteers of Disaster -- No Shame, No Shame at All

My particular favourite - "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush administration ordered that the research not be undertaken.

By Sidney Blumenthal

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

Smile, it keeps getting better...

Pentagon Foresees Preemptive Nuclear Strikes



National Post
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 10:58:05 AM GMT-7

Bill Moyer, 73, wears a "Bullshit Protector" flap over his ear while President George W. Bush addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Yeah, you can't make this stuff up! Can you imagine Bush giving his speach with these guys sitting in the audience? LMAO, vets, yet!

Next:
From Federal Failure Arises More Federal Power

The New Orleans catastrophe is inexplicable.

FEMA’s slow response is a mystery.

Never before has federal funding for work by the US Corps of Engineers on the New Orleans levees and for the congressionally authorized Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) been curtailed in the face of dire expert warnings of the consequence.

The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA knew days in advance that Hurricane Katrina was threatening the Gulf coast of the US. Yet, the normal advance preparations were not undertaken.

At the request of the Louisiana governor, President Bush declared a federal emergency for Louisiana on Saturday August 27 prior to Katrina’s arrival in New Orleans on the following Monday. The declaration specifically authorized FEMA "to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency." However, FEMA took no action until 3 days after the hurricane, delaying the arrival of effective help until 5 days after 80% of New Orleans was under water.

Compare this inexplicable delay with the rapid response to the Florida hurricanes last year



Not NBC!!!
HOW BUSH BLEW IT

I could just link to this Newsweek article and take off the rest of the day ? you won?t find a more devastating account of how thoroughly irresponsible Bush and his people were in coming to grips with the Katrina catastrophe

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/site/newsweek/
It's a standing joke among the president's top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, or, as he is known in West Wing jargon, POTUS. .




Four years after September 11, al-Qaeda's leadership should have been behind bars or dead. Four years after September 11, Afghanistan should have been stabilized. Four years after September 11, the government should have been ready to save lives in an urban disaster.

Bush recently started likening his poorly conceived and misnamed "war on terror" to World War II.

What his handlers have forgotten is how long World War II lasted for the United States.

Four years.

In four years, Roosevelt and allies defeated Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. In four years, Bush hasn't managed even to corner Bin Laden and a few hundred scruffy terrorists; or to extract himself from the deserts of Iraq; or to put the government's finances in good order so that it can deal with crises like Katrina.

Four years. I think about the victims of 9/11, and now 7/7. We have let you down

Jeez, out loud yet!!!US President George Bush has said there is no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in the 11 September attacks.


Damn, what a surprise!! Washington Post says:
Rallying the Troops and Avoiding Reality

By Colbert I. King
Saturday, August 27, 2005; A17


There is something almost surreal in the juxtaposition of President Bush's statements on Iraq and news reporting on the war. The two are simply irreconcilable.

Bush's upbeat take collides with recent news reports about events in Iraq as well as with the judgments of senior officials within his administration. If the media have got it wrong, then we deserve to get hammered. If, however, it turns out that Bush is not being straight with courageous U.S. service members and their families, then it will be the Bush presidency and his legacy that will pay dearly

Hmmm, this isn't good;
UN Official Says US Interfering in Iraq Constitution Process

by Dahr Jamail
U.S. influence in the process of drafting a constitution for Iraq is excessive and "highly inappropriate," a United Nations official says.

Whoa, what is going on here, mikmik?

The washington Post:

"Military action was now seen as inevitable," said the notes, ...

"The case was thin," summarized the notes taken by a British national security aide at the meeting. "Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

The notes were first disclosed last week by the Sunday Times of London, triggering criticism of Blair on the eve of the May 5 British parliamentary elections that he had decided to support an invasion of Iraq well before informing the public of his views
Blair Was Told of White House's Determination to Use Military Against Hussein

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I can't see how there can be any question about the integrity of the current administration. It is just 'anti Bush' posturing by the left-out wingnuts, don't you see? It's not like any credible news sources report anything suspicious.