hey lance, re: your sig Options

[jonathan83]

what's the one major city we lost? the only thing i can think of would be New Orleans, and i dont see how that was Bush's fault. Maybe the evacuation and support after the hurricane yes...but the actual hurricane? No. Help me out here.

[moebary]

You're both wrong. The state/local government could not afford to fix the levee system. Through FEMA there is Federal program where if the state qualifies they can receive Federal dollars to fix infrastructure. Louisiana was denied the Federal dollars it should have rightfully received.

To Impala, I'm not saying Bush was personally responsible; however, he appointed the FEMA director and countless other people involved with the Katrina mess. Bush may not have personally tried to sabotage the relief effort but his administration did a pretty good job of fucking things up. Ultimately the blame comes to rest on the person on top, and that is Bush. Secondly, we shouldn't have been in Iraq in the first place. We were lied to about the reasons being there and Saddam had no connection to 911 as you still believe. If we were not in Iraq we would have the resources to rebuild New Orleans. It's all Bush's fault.

I wasn't referring to the levees, just the immediate cleanup mess

the levees are a long term project, and if you're still talking about them getting the money before Katrina, then FEMA wouldn't have been involved at all