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Originally Posted by mrnoodle
So you think they thought the levees would fail? Or that Brown, who until this point has been a favorite target of the anti-Bush crowd, is now a martyr? Or maybe that there was something they could have done in the 24 hours between Brown's warning and Katrina's landfall? I'm always willing to believe that a politician has lied, or at least that their handlers have caused them to. But I still don't know what the point of this information is, beyond "SEE?!?!? BUSH IS TEH EVILZ!!"
You think the mayor of NOLA and the LA governor would have responded if Bush had said, "You guys are hosed. We're sending our fleet of federal City Evacuation Busses to forcibly remove all your citizens from their homes, because your levees are going to fail tomorrow"? You think that a response of any kind on the federal level would have prevented the hurricane from doing the damage it did? Again, what did you want them to do with the information? Remember, it came from a "horse breeder with no experience" or whatever you were calling Brown a couple weeks ago.
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They KNEW the levees were likely to fail. They didn't just THINK it. In regard to Brown, I didn't give an opinion, I was merely asking people's take on him now.
As far as the mayor of NOLA and the LA governor, I think they would have jumped up and down and said, "THANK YOU, Mr. President! We'll get the word out to our people right away!" The mayor of NOLA had been screaming about the levees for years. The Mayor KNEW better than any other official there what a terrible plight N.O. was in.
Yeah, it ticks me off when the President of this country tells bald faced lies to the people. I'd have respected Jr. a little if he'd been man enough to say, "Well, we had conflicting information," or "Federal response was terrible, and I am sorry. Here's how we are going to fix it."
If you can't admit to a problem, then you sure as hell aren't going to be taking any steps to solve it, now are you?
PS Yeah, Foot, I've been meaning to PM Glatt about that nasty habit of his.
