Re: Re: By the way, Bill

Bill,

I don't know if anyone is to blame for New Orleans, but the pictures we saw on TV (BBC and CNN) were horrific - the sort that accompanies the usual third world country disaster. It was hard to imagine this was happening in the US. 

I know this is an indelicate comparison - but the handling of 9/11 gave the impression that the authorities were quickly in charge, and doing everything they could (and more) to bring the situation under control. New Orleans resulted in the superdome instead.

The article below sums touches some of the issues I am getting at :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4214516.stm

Cheers,
Deepak

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: William Highfield 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 7:34 PM
  Subject: Re: [CAT23-Achat] Re: By the way, Bill


  Clark,

  You can blame the governor's failure to act more than a shortage of 
  National Guard troops.  She didn't use the resources she had,m yet you 
  complain she should have had more?

  Again you come up with radical verbage like "illegal war".  It ain't 
  illegal, and you know it.  But you parrot the koolaid drinkers and 
  tinfoil hat wearers on the left all you want.  It won't change the facts.

  The fact is that that levee system WAS upgraded where it broke, and it 
  did NOTHING to stop the storm waters.  It's one reason why the money you 
  were refering to wasn't spent.

  I know you'll enjoy blaming yet another natural disaster on the 
  President.  You get off on it, I think.  Intellectual honesty would 
  require you to realize that a Cat4 or Cat5 hurricane was going to hit 
  New Orleans whether we were in Iraq or not.  That regardless of where 
  the guard had troops deployed, it would have made ZERO difference when 
  the governor refuses to activate them early, refuses to properly 
  evacuate the city, refuses to declare a state emergency, refuses to 
  coordinate with FEMA, and condones looting.

  The War on Iraq had ZERO to do with a hurricane hitting New Orleans.  It 
  had ZERO to do with the human suffering caused by an incompetent local 
  and state government that did NOTHING to prepare.  The Feds are moving 
  in, but their hands are still tied in Louisana because Blanco won't 
  declare a state emergency.

  No doubt due to the War in Iraq, right?

  I also have no doubt that if a Democrat ever becomes President again, 
  everything will be hunky-dory, and when he sends troops into combat, 
  you'll declare THAT an illegal war too, right?  I mean, I distinctly 
  remember hearing you call the Bosnian war illegal when Clinton sent 
  troops there.  Oh wait, no I didn't.  You approved of that war, because 
  Clinton was a Democrat.  The UN didn't sanction that war either, but 
  because we were liberating a people from a genocidal maniac, you 
  approved.  Uh, but wait, that's EXACTLY what we did in Iraq.  The only 
  difference was that we have a strategic interest in Iraq (who WAS a 
  threat to his neighbors) where Milosevich was NOT a threat to his 
  neighbors.  I opposed the war in the Balkans because we should not have 
  had to take the lead in yet ANOTHER European problem.  It was their 
  backyard, they should have taken care of it themselves.  But that's 
  another discussion.

  You on the left can carp against Bush all you want.  The only problem I 
  ever had with Clinton was his lying under oath, his tax increases and 
  Janet Reno.  I supported him on NAFTA, and I supported him when he sign 
  welfare reform.  As far as his policies go, I probably supported him 
  about 30% of the time, which is 30% more than you on the left support 
  Bush.  I've never seen such fanatical hatred for a President.  Even in 
  time of national crisis, the first instinct is to lash out at George 
  Bush, like Kanye West, Jesse Jackson, Governor Blanco, and many other 
  Democratic leaders have done.  One would think they could put the hatred 
  and the vitroil aside for a bit to get people rescued, but in today's 
  poisonous political theater, that ain't likely.  It's attack the 
  President at every opportunity.

  It must suck to be completely out of power.  Republicans remember how it 
  felt, and I do not remember this level of hatred when the Dems 
  controlled all three branches of government.  And now with the Supreme 
  Court about to be stacked on the Conservative side, they stepped up the 
  partisan rancor another notch.

  It's really quite sad, and most likely going to destroy the Democratic 
  party.  An ABC news poll the other day showed that a majority of 
  Americans do NOT blame George Bush for the hurricane or it's aftermath, 
  so when these losers get up and blame George and the Iraq war, they're 
  reinforcing popular perception that the Democrats are just too nutty to 
  be entrusted with high office.  Hopefully the sane ones will take back 
  the party before 2008.

  -- 
  Bill Highfield
  St Cloud, Florida, USA!

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