http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?se...rld&id=3952623

"In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final government-wide briefing the day before Katrina struck on Aug. 29 but assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

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I've been informed....don't blame Bush, he's "not in control"
That must make him out of control

So what? So was Blanco and Nagin and every other official....state and local. Problem is....you can't wait until hours before such a huricane and start worrying about whether or not the levy you built will hold. They had to be told by Bush to call a mandatory evacuation. They weren't even going to do that. And Blanco insisted she needed a day to make a decision as to whether or not to federalize the operation or not. She was being advised by former FEMA director, James Witt, but couldn't seem to make the quick decisions she needed to. The state and local officials should have had an emergency evacuation plan. But in their defense.....even if they had.....many of those people wouldn't leave. So, what are you going to do? Force them???? Drag them out kicking and screaming???

Come on: it's about time you stop with your "I hate George W. Bush" crapola and discuss something intelligently for a change. You're a one-trick pony!

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

WOOT!
Its Wednesday!
Time for a new Bush attack!


You can almost set your VCR to it .They have increased now and do one every week to two weeks at the outside. Used to be once a month...but its an election year

Brownie was right. He was made the scapegoat.

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I've been informed....don't blame Bush, he's "not in control"
That must make him out of control

Not with this bunch of bumiling
idiots, more like a daily bashing
and for good reasons. Can't for
the life of me see why? you still
defend him. a real embarassment
all around the world. And I gave
of myself for this country, Southeast
Asia (1996-196. So don't be calling
me Anti- anything. just a real shame.

Here is something that I never understood about the Katrina tragedy...

and remember by no means am I comparing 9/11 to Katrina.. just comparing this one aspect.

When the US was attacked on 9/11, everyone in NY came together and helped each other. Strangers helped strangers, blacks helped whites, whites helped blacks, women helped men, and men helped women. It did not matter who you are or why you were in NY everyone came together and helped.

After Katrina hit LA, there was looting, shooting, drugs, rape.... Crime all around. No one helped anyone. No one came together. Cops were even looting, and ignoring their job duties.

Why?

I am not talking federal help either way, or volunteers coming from outside the cities. I am talking residents, locals in each of these locations.

Sorry to veer off topic a bit, but this is just something that continues to stir in my mind.

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WMD
Writings of Mass Destruction

I wonder will we see a tape like this from 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 years ago?

The threat to the levees has been widely known and expressed for decades. IOW pretty much no matter how you spin it the failure resides in the people of Louisiana and they're elected officials.

Good questions. Yeah....wonder how many of the upper class there in New Orleans took those hardest hit into their homes? Maybe they did and our news just didn't cover it. It wouldn't be the first time they chose NOT to cover "good" news.

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

I heard this story on the radio while driving home and the first thoughts that came to me was that the warnings form the weather services were available to all and was ready to make that statement when this topic appeared. Truth is good for all.

But lo and behold I read the posts and what do I see,
but nothing more than the same whine from JP.

That old saw of "the W they all hate, that must be his fate".
Afraid I am that forever that tired old phrase will be said,
until something really intelligent replaces it instead,

Slim chances that my wish will be granted,
For forever and a day have the W apologists ranted,
But lo and behold I read the posts and what do I see but nothing more than the whine of JP.

No matter the topic they cry " our poor W you guys hate", it has even been written in Slate.

JP, do not get it that you are the real "one-trick pony" here. See

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"the blame falls primarily on the parents of the girl?" -Bill O'Reilly about Spears

Well thats what it is.
The entire point of the thread is to point at how BUSH didn't do x in an attempt once again to attack him.
Whatever be somehting different in a week maybe two at the outside.

Anyone remember something about the NSA?