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Old 03-06-2006, 11:22 PM   #59 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Katczinsky
I bet that this has already been said before, but I would like to address something to Jefferson.

It doesn't matter how you get into all of the very small and actually insigificant details to a point to where you're actually debating the meaning of the words used in the story. Bush was warned in advance of an approaching hurricane. If this doesn't spell out disaster, than I don't know what does.

If your advisors tell you that a hurricane of historical strength is heading toward the shoars of the United States, I think its safe to assume that one will anticipate significant damage being done. The fact that you are attempting to argue Bush wasn't anticipating it, would make him look even more dumb and guilty than if he actually did anticipate it.

Someone tells him that a momumentous hurricane is headed for New Orleans, and that the breach in the weak levees (which had already been debated about reforming them in the past) is possible, it only takes someone with a grade-school education to anticipate significant damage being done to the city. People had been calling out for the reforming of the levees years before the Katrina hurricane; people had been warning of a very likely event of what actually happened with Katrina. Don't you think it would have been wise to heed these warnings?
In your relentless attempts to scapegoat President Bush for everything that is wrong in the world, you are BLINDLY missing the main point.

Let's assume - as you Bush-haters INSIST - that Bush KNEW, without question, that the levees WOULD BE BREACHED. And he KNEW this on August 29th.

That is ONE DAY - less than 24 hours - before landfall.

What, exactly, was George Bush supposed to have personally done AT THAT POINT?


The ONLY thing to have done was EVACUATE. Bush was supposed to, somehow, get FEMA into New Orleans and evacuate everybody before landfall? It's funny that you expect Bush to have done what you claim Nagin could NOT do...



You guys make this far too easy.