This fool is our president?
The fool in the White House says, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did appreciate a serious storm but these levees got breached and as a result much of New Orleans is flooded and now we're having to deal with it and will," he said.
Well I guess he just admitted the defeat of his homeland "security" efforts.
Of course, people DID anticipate the breach of the levees, even if the fool didn't.
"A grim Mayor C. Ray Nagin conceded Katrina's storm surge pushing up the Mississippi River would swamp New Orleans' system of levees, flooding the bowl-shaped city and causing potentially months of misery" on August 28, 2005."We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared," he said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."
Of course, New Orleans has known for a long time that a major hurricane would do exactly what Katrina has done. in the 2004 hurrican season, I heard the N.O. mayor say that they had evacuation plans, but that 100,000 people would not have the means of evacuating. This was in 2004--and he was right. And he talked about the levees and the flooding. This was part of the N.O. disaster plans.
Of course, they couldn't have anticipated in 2003 that the National Guard would be halfway around the world, fighting a war that the fool started for reasons he would rather not discuss.
The New York Times editorial says it well.
Well I guess he just admitted the defeat of his homeland "security" efforts.
Of course, people DID anticipate the breach of the levees, even if the fool didn't.
"A grim Mayor C. Ray Nagin conceded Katrina's storm surge pushing up the Mississippi River would swamp New Orleans' system of levees, flooding the bowl-shaped city and causing potentially months of misery" on August 28, 2005."We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared," he said. "This is a once-in-a-lifetime event."
Of course, New Orleans has known for a long time that a major hurricane would do exactly what Katrina has done. in the 2004 hurrican season, I heard the N.O. mayor say that they had evacuation plans, but that 100,000 people would not have the means of evacuating. This was in 2004--and he was right. And he talked about the levees and the flooding. This was part of the N.O. disaster plans.
Of course, they couldn't have anticipated in 2003 that the National Guard would be halfway around the world, fighting a war that the fool started for reasons he would rather not discuss.
The New York Times editorial says it well.
posted by Lynn Holleman Rudloff | 11:13 AM
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In 1993, I was visiting St. Louis--I had lived there for 10 years and had moved out just before the floods that took people's houses, lands, and towns in '93. The levee system there was strong, and reinforced daily, but the flooding was still so extreme that they simply gave parts of the the land back to the river and did not attempt to recover it. Without the National Guard, the disaster would have been even worse. When the brave men and women who sign up for the National Guard do so, it is with the idea of guarding the nation against just such disasters, protecting from within. They were never meant to be sent overseas.
In Chicago, people remember the Missouri floods of '93, and it is from the Chicago Tribune that comes this article, detailing the specific ways in which the plans for helping New Orleans survive just such a catastrophe were gutted by the Bush administration:
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509010170sep01,1,5853346.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true
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