"Bob the Cow" wrote in message
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>> This was a national catastrophe with effects well outside of New Orleans.
>> Why wasn't Bush
>> Why wasn't he requesting every city and town
>> Why didn't he immediately negotiate reduced or suspended hotel
>> rates with the national chains
>> Why didn't Bush order the many naval ships
>> When didn't Bush immediately order a Berlin Airlift type
>> operation out of the New Orleans airport?
>> Why didn't he send troops in immediately?
>> Why didn't he make sure there was a large fleet of vehicles
>> and busses getting the refugees out round the clock?
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> Because if he'd done any or all of the above things, extremists of all
> stripes would be waxing poetic and using words like Gestapo, Storm Troops,
> Jackboots, and Federal usurpation of state and local authority.
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> Katrina, like 9/11, was unprecedented in our nation's history. There was
> a "failure of imagination" in even comprehending that either could take
> place on our soil. The responses you've suggested, while certainly
> appropriate in hindsight, were also unprecedented, and similarly
> unimagined. You've vastly overestimated the agility of ANY Governmental
> agency in responding to ANY crisis. It takes seven people in any
> Government organization to do the job one person could do in the private
> sector, and if even ONE of those seven isn't there, or doesn't care, the
> thing doesn't get done. That's bad, but that is how Government has
> evolved. There's a lot of fault to go around.
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> By the way, although one might speculate that "busses" might have made the
> "refugees" feel better, and maybe given the President some great photo
> ops, "buses" might have been more useful in the situation at hand. Got a
> dictionary? ;-)
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> Those buses that sat in the flooded parking lot weren't under Federal or
> even State control. If there's one picture that illustrates the overall
> lack of response to the emergency, that might be it.
The picture that best illustrates the overall lack of response to the
emergency is http://www.boingboing.net/2005/08/31/_a_tale_of_two_photo.html
Nero fiddles while Rome burns.
Bush does some pickin' and grinnin' while the Gulf Coast drowns.
Yee-haw!
BT
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