Posted on 08/31/2005 4:36:04 PM PDT by ElderEdda
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.
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature...
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
Now, as in Iraq, we will see that since Bush is the cause of suffering the libs will not step up and help, but rather open their bitter, ugly mouths and complain. The people of the South will suffer and it will not be because of BUSH, but because of inhumane, insufferable people such as Mr. Blumenthal.
Flap away, Mr. Blumenthatl, in your insignificant, unhelpful, unimaginative and disgraceful existence in the confines and safe harbors of the international anti-American.
It wasn't a federal problem. The state had the option to fix this for years but they did not have the political will to spend the money and possibly cut into their socialism.
My God, these people are insane, is there anything that isn't Bush's fault???
Hindsight is really great, isn't it?
You are ABSOLUTELY right.
Ole Sid can kiss my a**!!!!
Yeah, yeah, blame Bush for everything bad that happens! There is only so much money to go around. These crackpots, all they do is blame Bush for everything that goes wrong. This is really getting to be a tired old line.
Now President Bush should have known before it happened!
der spiegel? sydney blumenthal? Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha . There, i wasted as much ink as they did.
After all if Bush had signed the Kyoto treaty (that was only a few years ago?) then the hurricanes would have just said, "Oh! We don't want to go there!"
This is amazing. There is literally no limit to the dementia of the left. Sid Vicious is worse than the kennedy punk blaming Haley Barbour for the damage. Do they really think anybody will be swayed by this demented raving?
Just saw some footage on FOX of Shep Smith talking to some inner-city dwellers crawling out of the muck. Obviously poor inner-city peopleThe guys were practically carrying old women on their backs. These weren't looters, just folks who needed help. We all better do our part.
But the damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an act of nature. 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.
Yes, if only Bush had allowed the Corps of Engineers to begin a study last year the damage from the hurricane would have been prevented.
Democrats think they have him on the ropes and are going to blame him for everything and give the Democrats a pass for any and all things that have transpired. Why do Democrats hate our country so much? Why don't they seek out the facts before blaming someone?
Speaking of the beast, she's had a lot to watch and note over the past few days: looting, direct assaults on police, gasoline panics and a worshipper procession stampede (Iraq). You know she's thinking now that declaring martial law and doing away with the Constitution (that is, what's left of it) is going to be easier than that $1,000 she turned into $100,000 in cattle futures.
Sent my money today and more goes on payday. I feel helpless and I would like to help but all I can do is send money and I hope it isn't pissed off by the Red Cross.
Blumenthal is a POS. Anyone who would take cheap advantage of a natural disaster to score political points when they might be helping the relief effort, or at least leading prayers for the victims is worthy only of our scorn. Another Clintonite shows his true colors: as if anyone had any doubt.
Sidney Blewthemall eh.
In my years on this earth, everytime I have seen man try to control water with levees it has eventually failed. It is folly and always will be.
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