[Zack Nguyen]

"He showed no lack of haste when he wanted to go to Iraq, but for his own people right here in Louisiana, we get only lip service."

I am sorry for these people, but why is it personally Bush's fault? Is he just supposed to snap his fingers and deploy 40,000 National Guardsman to help a city fifteen feet underwater? Is Bush supposed to have a magic 8-ball to tell him the levees will break?

[Paleo Conservative]

Is Bush supposed to have a magic 8-ball to tell him the levees will break?

The mayor of NO and the Governor of LA should have been concerned about that possibility as soon as the weather planes reported category 5 winds. The levees were only built to handle hurricanes of category 3 or less. The mandatory evacuation should have occurred as soon as the it was known Katrina reached or exceeded category 4 status.

[brytlea]

Well, ya know, Clinton would have been able to do it! /sarcasm
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[sweetliberty]

"Is Bush supposed to have a magic 8-ball to tell him the levees will break?"

Well, if he wouldn't have caused this hurricane with his bombs in his war for oil, the levees wouldn't have broke, now would they? < /sarcasm >

[El Gato]

"He showed no lack of haste when he wanted to go to Iraq, but for his own people right here in Louisiana, we get only lip service."

It took a heck of a lot longer to get Congressional approval for use of force in Iraq along with the 8B$ first appropriation, than it took to push through the 12B$ relief appropriation. WOuldn't have taken that long if the Kennedy, Schummer and that ilk hadn't wasted time flapping their jaws railing against the President.