Do you remember a few days before Katrina hit the coast, the President was not allowed to send in the Guard because the Governor of LA as well as Mayor Nagin did not want to "give up control" of thier state/city?  \n\nAlso, did you see the photos of all the school buses that Nagin said were to be used to transport people out of harms way?  He didn't mobilize them and they are were flooded, too.\n\nI don't like it when people don't tell the whole story and make it look like Pres Bush didn't do his job.  He tried, but they didn't want his help until they realized they were in way over their head!  Then they tried to cover up their bad decision and point their fingers at someone else!
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No one knows that because the media won't tell that story.  The media control what people know and what they don't know.  It's a conspiracy, pure and simple.  Bush did everything he was supposed to do in New Orleans and Nagin and that stupid bitch governor sat around and tried to figure out how to look composed and in charge.\n\nNevertheless, the media has everyone convinced that it was all Bush's fault.
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I can assure you as a fellow Texan {and not proud of either Bush as a Governor or President} you don't even have to ask that question. He is! I think he claims "God" told him to do it in order to justify his actions which he is criticized for repeatedly. He struck at Saddam in my opinion to finish off what the older Bush was not capable at the time of doing. If you recall he used the excuse "weapons of mass destruction" when he was unable to locate them it changed to I believe "crimes of humanity" correct me if I am wrong. Fact is if they had those weapons EITHER Bush claimed they had, odds are they would have used them prior to the US going in and killing so many of the Iraq citizens. I am supportive of our troops and respect that they are doing their job but as a Texan I am truly disappointed in his actions as a President.
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It started with the Terry Schiavo thing. That wasn't even about right to life. It was about a couple of controlling parents making a federal case out of a family issue. That's when Bush blew his "political capital". After turning a surplus into a huge deficit and losing thousands of lives in an illegal, dishonest, and mismanaged war, Bush has a lot to answer for. He destroyed the ability of the Federal government to respond to Katrina. That's going to take a lot of rebuilding.
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Very good link, Pops but you are missing the point!  Liberals say things to garner votes (which way is the wind blowing?) not to make the world safer.  They don't even believe we are in a war, just arrest a few terrorists and haul them into US courts to mete out fines - Poof! - problem ended.  If you read the link below you will get a very different impression of what Bush must deal with (without liberal support).
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you do know that when there is a crisis ( hurricane) The 'president' send out the country's forces ( soldiers) But Bush was too busy sendin out all his soldiers to Iraq to murder innocent people for the sake of conquer, oil, mercury, gold and uraniam.. But if he hadnt messed it up for Iraq he would have had all his soldiers in service for their country.. He used all his soldiers for 'his' service. Heck who cares about the country when there's a huge gold/oil mine down in the middle east? think bout it.\n\n\nbtw, people who stayed were either poor or uncapable of transport ( elders)
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Andy LDS I think the article on the website http://www.lewrockwell.com/roberts/rober... is on point. I think the terroists know that they have people listening to them. They aren't idiots. Second they boast on websites about what they are about to do or did.  Bush is making this county into a communist county. Sowly but surely he is taking our civil rights away. First he overrides his executive powers, Eminent Domain is broaden to something the founders did not intend. Locals in TX made a rule that people could not protest from 1 mi from his ranch. ( right to assemble. Spying on people who don't agree with is style of gov. the country (freedom of speech and press. This so called leader needs to be impeached.\nOh to all you nay sayers. He did not get approval to officially declare war. So he is definetly overriding his powers.\nIf they impeached Clinton for having a romp with Monica L. Then Bush is definitely a canidate for impeachment.
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He did the best he could do with what he had to work with.  It wasn't only Houston trying to get out at that time.  All the surrounding areas were trying to evacuate also.  I feel he did a wonderful job getting a million + people out of the area.  TX DOT could have done better.  They needed to start the contraflow traffic sooner and have fuel stations set up.  People were stuck on the interstates for 12 or more hours. It could take 8+ hours to move 5 miles.
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no offense but i think george w bush is a bad president because he left the victims in the Katrina inside New Orleans for a whole week (7 whole days). If the news and camera crews could come to new orleans i think that bush could have gotton a plane and semt people out of their!
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Why he was re-elected is beyond me.  NOLA will get what it paid for.\n\nI am going to be criticized as being insensitive, but here's my $0.02 anyway.\n\nHow dumb are you if you are waiting for the government to tell you to leave the area when there is a class 5 hurricane heading straight for your town that happens to be below sea level???  And how can you be surprised that a house built directly on the beach on stilts to prevent flooding gets destroyed in a bad storm.\n\nI blame the liberals for creating a "victims mentality" in this country.  No one is ever responsible for their actions, "They never told me to leave, its Bush's fault for not telling me to leave."  \n\nSermon over.  Sorry.  Had to vent it, feeling better now.
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AS A VICTIM OF FEMA AND THE RED CROSS AS WELL AS KATRINA THE BEST THING THATS HAPPENED IS THE PRIVATE VOLUNTEER GROUPS!  HERE ON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST THEY ARE DOING MIRACLES!  WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO!  BUT WITHOUT JUST THE DONATED HELP WE WOULD BE DEAD!\n\nFORGET ANY FORMAL HELP!  THE GOVERNMENT HELP IS REBUILDING THE ROADS AND BRIDGES AND INTRASTRUCTURE!  BUT PERSONAL HOMES ARE FROM VOLUNTEER HELP ALONE!\n\nON THE MISSISSIPPI GULF COAST RIGHT NOW THERE IS A YAHOO GROUP COORDINATING ALL THE DISTRIBUTION OF SUPPLIES, IT IS LISTED BELOW!\n\nTHEY NEED ANY HELP YOU CAN FURNISH CONTACT THEM!\n\n\nAPS\n\nKatrinaVolunteersHancockCounty@yahoogroups.com
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The Democrats were certainly capable of establishing the safety net that the storm victims were expecting long before Mr. Bush took office, but they did NOT.  To account for all reasonable disasters that could strike the US, to the standard of reclamation that you seem to be expecting would, in my estimation, consume the entire US budget for 10 years, and would take billions annually to maintain.  (That's no road work, no medical plans, no school program support, no Social Security, no military, Nothing for 10 years.) President Bush did not dismantle any disaster programs or plans. He did not sell off supplies, trailers, food, clothing, instant homes, instant levies, yet you are holding him soley accoutable for what the State's are equally responsible for?  That is just so very irresponsible... and so very much represents the extremist closed minded left.\nTo say that anyone could have actually stopped Katrina from hitting has simply been watching too many Science FICTION movies.\n\nAh.. Name calling, that always solves things! we skate so closely to abuse. Okay, simple.... here we go...\n\nThe civil engineering effort to prevent a city that is largely below sea level from ever being submerged was within the grasp of the leadership of the State, but apparently was not pursued with much earnest as other projects were deemed (locally) as having more importance.  \n\n"In Katrina's wake, Louisiana politicians and other critics have complained about paltry funding for the Army Corps in general and Louisiana projects in particular. But over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large.\n\nMuch of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon.\n\nFor example, after a $194 million deepening project for the Port of Iberia flunked a Corps cost-benefit analysis, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) tucked language into an emergency Iraq spending bill ordering the agency to redo its calculations. The Corps also spends tens of millions of dollars a year dredging little-used waterways such as the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, the Atchafalaya River and the Red River -- now known as the J. Bennett Johnston Waterway, in honor of the project's congressional godfather -- for barge traffic that is less than forecast...."\n\nThen there's New York City (see second link). When the next big storm sweeps northward and hits that city, what happened in New Orleans will look like a summer rain.  Is anyone looking to storm proof that city?  What will its residents yell afterwards?  Should we spend 100 Trillion dollars storm-proofing NYC?  What about San Francisco?   The basic lesson is, that we cannot control the weather, or geology.  People elect to live where they may. When they live in risky places, there should not be any surprises when disasters strike. (read Geohazards: Natural and Human\n by Dr. Nicholas Coch)
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None of us know what he would really think inside.  He's a politician.  But to blame the Katrina situation on any kind of racism isn't right.  There's no way a politician would do that in this country any more, the end result would be his destruction.  The statements made were spontaneous and pretty ignorant.  There's just no possible way anyone in the government was holding off help simply because black people were involved.  The plain as day simple answer is that no one knew how to deal with a situation like that, it was unprecedented and the "government" up there does not have all the answers all the time.  We just expect perfection.  Then there were reports of rescuers being shot at and violence, looting etc. everywhere.  What we saw on the news was cameramen showing looting while claims that they were only showing black people doing bad things while white people were looking for food.  Well, what we saw were "people" carrying TV's away.  White or Black I'd bet my life they weren't selected because of their race to be shown on TV.\n\nWhatever George Bush supports in his heart will not show anyway, so the end result is the same as if he had no prejudice.  We'll never know.
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Have you heard about the busload of politicians who died when their bus went off a cliff?\n\nYeah it was only rolling from a parking spot, but they were ALL to busy debating who was going to steer and who was going to step on the brakes, that the 20 minutes it took to go over wasn't NEAR long enough for them to take ACTION!!
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First, it was a mistake to build below sea level. Why should the Federal Government pay the bill for local government's poor planning? The Libs are quick to blame a Republican run federal government. But from what I have heard, they GAVE them money and the local government divied it up for their pet projects and not on the dike.\nAnd from what I have seen regarding that hurricane, I don't think ANYTHING could have held up against it. It was aweful!
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My brother lives in Houston, too, and has been complaining about alot of the relocated people from New Orleans not trying to improve their situations on their own by accepting job offers or offers to assist in job placement.  He is not someone who is heartless, either, and he was one of the first people along with his fraternity who gathered food, clothing, and diapers in the immediate aftermath of Katrina.  He tells me of stories of people just panhandling and creating undue ruckus around his community.\nBut, let's be fair.  Some of these people have little or no education and have lived in constant poverty for much of their lives, so there is no quick fix solution for something that has persisted unnoticed by the non-impoverished for so long.  Our country is so interested in fixing every other countries problems, but they neglect to fully realize that our country has needed fixing of the major kind for decades.  Our country is more interested in economic growth than the plight of its own struggling, starving, homeless, jobless, and working poor.  I have a Master's degree, was a teacher, No Child Left Behind came along, and guess what, teachers got displaced, students got lumped together, and even more children are being left behind by a system that sees dollars instead of the human condition.
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I have watched this video and although it is very well put together, I do not believe any of it. Honestly people! Think about how much planning and people would have to be involved in what happened. Do you really think that in the year that Bush had been president his administration could have coordinated something like that? Considering the amount of people that would have had to have been involved, why wouldn't anyone be speaking up? Find some of these people and then maybe I'll start to consider some of these crazy ideas!
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I asked this here 4 months ago and again 2 months ago, and everyone thought ole Mayor Nagin had a handle on it. Bull crap!! He has done nothing to search for those bodies in the houses. Only when the National guard was there they were searched for. Or when sad family member came home looking. I can't believe they voted this man in again. One week after Katrina there was a news report that he went and bought a brand new large home in Texas. His clothes back then started to get richer looking. He is a complete moron!!