Subj : It seems not everyone shares the "Blame Bush All The Way" viewpoint...
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Ken McElhaney
Date : Tue Sep 06 2005 08:47:49

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

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.

Okay, I'm done...let the Bush bashing continue...

Ken

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