Subj : Re: It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Chaya
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 20:06:08

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Ken McElhaney wrote:

> Over the weekend, ABC/Washington Post poll reveals that despite the
> massive criticism aired 24/7 on Bush, most Americans just don't see it
> that way;
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/8lbd5
> 
> And while the federal response was way too slow and disasters of this
> size should NOT be handled by FEMA, but rather the US military (which
> has no buerocracy to get in the way), I do have some questions for the
> local 'n state authorities, namely;
> 
> Why did the Mayor of New Orleans wait until SUNDAY to order the
> manditory evacuation of his city? 24 hours after both the govenor AND
> Bush pleaded with him to do so?
> 
> Why didn't the Superdome & Convention Center have ANY water 'n food
> supplies IF they were suppose to be shelters?
> 
> And if they weren't capable of handling that number of people, then
> why didn't they use the school 'n tourist buses (there were over 500
> that survived the hurricane) to start getting them out BEFORE the
> flood waters cut off the city? In fact, why didn't they start moving
> people out on Saturday?
> 
> When word of the water barriers breaking reached the gov's office on
> Monday, why didn't she send in the National Guard (over 5,000 soldiers
> who had already been activated) into New Orleans right away before the
> flood waters cut off the city?
> 
> I think that after all this is over and the investigations are
> concluded, we'll have a new FEMA director, a new federal system for
> handling disaters of this massive size (which is larger than ANY in US
> history), and hopefully New Orleans will have a new Mayor and perhaps
> an actual plan to deal with a situation everyone knew could happen
> over the past 40 years.


I would be very surprised if GWB fired anyone over this.  He only seems
to can people who disagree with him, including the Director of the
Bureau of Justice Statistics (who refused to bury statistical findings
that racial profiling is alive and well). 

http://littlink.com/owv5y

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