03/01/06 10:48 PM
Like just about anyone who follows politics and doesn’t get their news from a propaganda network, I realize that I shouldn’t put anything past this current administration. They’ve lied so many times in the past and I have a feeling that they’re just going to keep on pushing the lies until finally people wake up and realize that they’ve had enough.
The beautiful thing about the quote above and the linked video is that yet once again the president is completely caught in his lie. Unless he wants to argue that the video is edited, there is no getting out of this one and I for one hope that it plays (alongside his quote) on every single major news outlet for the next couple days.
It’s just one example, of course, and there are some people who still say that he’s doing the best he can and he’s a good Christian man so we should stand behind him because he’s our president that was elected by the majority of people, but this is a guy who on the above video heard dire warnings from a whole room of people (including the much-maligned Mike Brown) and then seemingly ignored them and went on literally three days of campaign stops (including this gem).
So yeah, I took a break from posting about politics on here, but this is something I read and think about too much to not write about. I want the Dems to collectively grow a backbone, I want GW’s approval ratings at sub 20%, and I want people to finally see what a complete debacle this administration has been. If I can help in that even a little bit, I’ll be happy man.
March 2nd, 2006 at 8:26 am
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March 4th, 2006 at 10:35 am
but you didn’t listen to the video and neither did the AP since they have since run this correction–
Clarification : Katrina -Video story
Eds: Subscribers who used BC-NA-GEN–US- Katrina -Video of March 1
and 2 may wish to use the following, which explains how risks of
levee breaches were discussed among federal disaster officials and
President George W. Bush.
WASHINGTON (AP) _ In a March 1 story, The Associated Press
reported that federal disaster officials warned President George W.
Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina
struck that the storm could breach levees in New Orleans, citing
confidential video footage of an Aug. 28 briefing among U.S.
officials.
The Army Corps of Engineers considers a breach a hole developing
in a levee rather than an overrun. The story should have made clear
that Bush was warned about floodwaters overrunning the levees,
rather than the levees breaking.
The day before the storm hit, Bush was told there were grave
concerns that the levees could be overrun. It wasn’t until the next
morning, as the storm was hitting, that Michael Brown, then head of
the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said Bush had inquired
about reports of breaches. Bush did not participate in that
briefing. —
but i suppose your narrative doesn’t change at all. read this month’s popular mechanics for all of the facts about the alleged failure of the federal government. 100,000 federal workers to the ravaged area in 3 days is pretty impressive, even ray nagin comes out smelling pretty good because he got nearly 70% of the population out in 48 hours and the majority of those who stayed had vehicles to use in an evacuation but chose rather to ride it out.
March 4th, 2006 at 12:33 pm
We can argue semantics of “breach” versus “topped” levees forever and whether the fault lies on the local or federal level for the majority of the problems that happened with Katrina, but most likely that’s not really going to go anywhere.
That wasn’t really my point, though. It doesn’t change the fact that this is an administration that refuses to admit they’re wrong about anything. It doesn’t change the fact that three days after the hurricane hit, GW was hanging out with a country music star for a fundraising event and had to be briefed about what had gone on in the wake of the hurricane through a DVD of newsclips after he finally decided to cut his vacation short. You’d think that when he’d been warned that a catasrophic storm was going to hit (which he was in above linked video).
I would respect this administration more if they respected me and told me the truth a little more often. I’m not naive to think that it doesn’t go on with both parties, but this current gang seem about as corrupt and obstructionist as they come.
March 5th, 2006 at 9:43 am
I think, if you examine the physics, you’ll find that the levees suffered a “functionality degredation,” not a “breach.” And really… who could have predicted that?
March 5th, 2006 at 11:07 am
Only the creator of the universe could have known that the levees would breach.
(/inside joke)
January 6th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
I think, if you examine the physics, you’ll find that the levees suffered a “functionality degredation,†not a “breach.†And really… who could have predicted that?