The magnitude of the disaster was "eminently preventable..."
an excellent diary by reddan at kos spells out, reduction by reduction, cut by cut, omission by omission, decision by decision, how bushco, through its disastrous iraq war debacle and insane tax cuts, shorted the critical public works projects that could have significantly mitigated the still-unfolding horror of katrina...
reddan addressing bush...
once things have been somewhat stabilized along the gulf coast, particularly new orleans, it seems to me the timing would be perfect for the american people to rise up and say, "george, we've HAD IT...! you've screwed us every possible way under the sun since you stole the 2000 election... WE'RE PISSED AS HELL AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE...!" Submit To Propeller
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reddan addressing bush...
A city is destroyed, and in large part this disaster was eminently preventable...but the money, planning, coordination, and people necessary to accomplish that prevention and mitigation were diverted from already identified urgent needs and projects and sunk into the bloody sands of the Iraqi desert and siphoned into the bulging pockets of your campaign contributors and rich beneficiaries of your stupid tax cuts.
once things have been somewhat stabilized along the gulf coast, particularly new orleans, it seems to me the timing would be perfect for the american people to rise up and say, "george, we've HAD IT...! you've screwed us every possible way under the sun since you stole the 2000 election... WE'RE PISSED AS HELL AND WE'RE NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANY MORE...!" Submit To Propeller
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posted by profmarcus at
8/31/2005
