i've watched various news programs some of which had mayor nagin being interviewed. i get the sense that he had been requesting money/assistance on a consistant basis, not only to deal with katrina but to address some environmental issues that could have prevented this multi-billion dollar catastrophe.
tim russert asked nagin about the buses that were sitting in all that water and why those were not used to transport those unable to evacuate. if i remember correctly it boiled down to money and manpower. there werent enough drivers not anyone willing to risk driving in that hurricane.
i believe that blame must be placed all around but i feel the bulk falls on the govenor and our president. bush is the leader of the free world. the president is the eyes and ears of the country and is privy to the latest, most accurate information. i find it difficult to believe that his advisors are that incompetant where they were providing inaccurate information as bush as stated.
the governor should have been a thorn in bush's side during all of this. as biased as the media can be, they hit this one on the head. if we have the man power to go to iraq we have the manpower to address a domestic issue. katrina was more accurate than the so-called weapons of mass destruction. SHE WAS COMING. there was no question. all branches of government should have ben on alert to assist the mayor.
this hurricane has brought to light all sorts of issues that government has been trying to keep mum. those levees should have been repaired properly, the governor should have provided resources so that everyone would have gotten out or would have been provided for at the convention cent and superdome, maybe nagin should cussed day 1, the president should have had fema and the military on standby---oops, my bad, most of our soldiers are helping to democratize iraq and make nice with our saudi investors.
the bottom line is that to consider nagin and the governor solely responsible maybe casting a blind eye to the bigger picture.
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Originally posted by Glitterkitty
The governor of LA and the Mayor of NO are to blame for this. It is shoddy politicing on the part of the people who have been running the state for a long time.
FEMA can only do so much when dumbasses ignore mandatory evauation warnings.
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