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Originally Posted by foundit66 Here's a simple and direct question for you Jefferson.
Ignore it if you will...
Was Mike Brown qualified to be appointed as head of FEMA?
Did Bush make a serious mistake in appointing Brown as head of FEMA?
A mistake which had serious repercussions upon the capability of FEMA to respond to this disaster under an inept and incompetent director?
Yes, yes, yes...
Nagin made serious errors in the Katrina response.
FEMA made serious mistakes in the Katrina response.
The question which YOU won't address is BUSH'S culpability in this disaster response disaster... | Pffffft. Read my posts. | Already done.
Read my responses to your posts...
Specifically my responses to your allegations that FEMA would have had to micro-manage to do their job...
But somehow, I'm betting that err on your part will be ignored in future responses... Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson 1. I've already said that FEMA was not ready to deal with Katrina.
2. Brown did not correctly lead FEMA.
3. Bush was wrong to appoint Brown as head of FEMA - though there's now some evidence pointing to Brown NOT being the bone-head that people initially made him out to be. | What evidence would that be? (regarding your claim on point #3 on "some evidence pointing to...")
And may I say that I congratulate you on admitting the start of point #3: "Bush was wrong to appoint Brown as head of FEMA".
I have been trying to drive that point home, and every response from you up until now has made a serious effort to avoid that point. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson 4. By proxy, Bush was resonsible for the horrible response of FEMA to the Katrina disaster. | In part, yes. Quote: |
Originally Posted by Jefferson However... Katrina would have been infinitely LESS disastrous had Nagin simply exemplified ANY kind of leadership and intelligence in preparing for the hurricane. He did NOTHING and people died as a direct result.
Talk about unqualified! Nagin did nothing but work for Cox Cable Company before being elected Mayor. He's a total idiot, but nobody is allowed to say that because it'd be politically incorrect. | I agree with this assessment.
I also feel compelled to add that if you replace "Nagin" with "Brown" in your above comments, and replace "work for Cox Cable Company" with "being a horse judge", you'll get an equally true assessment of Brown's failure...
Both made serious mistakes which cost a lot of people their lives...
And as a side-note on the "evacuation" issue, I think both Katrina and the subsequent Houston storm / evacuation taught some lessons on the capability of "evacuation" of a city.
The whole issue where people sat for hours in their cars just to move a few miles forward, sometimes running out of gas?
Hopefully our governments are giving serious consideration to how to effectively and efficiently "evacuate" a city, if need be... |