I'm not sure what is really going on in American interior politics, but are Democrats and Republican 'Rebels' blaming Bush for the hurricane Katrina and stuff? Because that would be ridiculous.

Bush holds a lot of the blame. If we're paying 30-50% of everything we make in taxes, the one thing the government had BETTER be able to do is keep me safe!

All this 'new' homeland security department seems to have done is make Americans even less safe. If they can't save us from wind and water, what the hell makes you think they're going to be able to help us when it's a chemical or nuclear disaster?

Katrina more than anything else, has shown us how incompetent the Bush administration really is in keeping us safe.

WOW.
I never expected to hear anything like that from you. You caught me completely off guard here.

If you have read any of my previous messages in Political Discussions, you'd probably know that I'm no Bush fan but...
Okay, maybe help was sent in too late. But some people actually made it seem like Bush's not signing the Kyoto protocol was responsible for this mess (even though I think he should've signed it to avoid, or at least postpone trouble that will only arise in several decades anyway).

Oh, that's just rediculous. It doesn't take "global warming" or an "angry god who hates the gays" to explain what happened in New Orleans.

You've got a city built below sea level in the middle of the most active hurricaine region on the globe. It has been very well known in America that this kind of disaster was likely in New Orleans, it's just that you don't really ever "believe" that it will actually occour.

The real fault is that we've got a department to keep our "homeland secure" that seems to be even worse at doing its job than what we had BEFORE 9/11. Bush's poll numbers took a dive after Katrina because we voted for a president who could keep us safe from terrorists and he can't even keep us safe from wind and water we saw comming out for A WEEK before it even hit. You think terrorists are going to be kind enough to tell us a week before they detonate a nuke to go ahead and get ready for the fallout over Los Angeles? So I'll say it again, if they can't keep us safe from wind and water what makes you think they can keep us safe from nuclear and chemical attacks?

Exactly. So unless Bush went back in time and founded New Orleans, that accusation is unfounded.

I don't know about anyone else but if I'm warned to leave for a week by NOAA weather experts, I don't wait for a President, Governor, Mayor, City council, or anyone, I leave. But then I'm a realist, I believe that 175 mph winds and 50 ft waves can kill me.

Mortal.

Originally Posted by Mohmar Deathstrike

I'm not sure what is really going on in American interior politics, but are Democrats and Republican 'Rebels' blaming Bush for the hurricane Katrina and stuff? Because that would be ridiculous.

They are not blaming him for Katrina per se, but for the slow and inept reply of his administration in the aftermath. But, that having been said, I have to agree with Missileer, I would have left New Orleans pronto too.

i dont believe so.

What one must remember is those residents who stayed couldnt leave. Some were too poor, others were physically unable. The biggest failure of the local government was its failure to evacuate those residents who couldnt evacuate by themselves.