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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by fuzzybroken</i> <br /><br />I'll try not to turn this into some big ridiculous political rant... <br />[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by CSXrules4eva</i> <br /><br />"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." –President Bush, on "Good Morning America," Sept. 1, 2005, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina (Source)[/quote]OF COURSE no one anticipated the breach of the levees! The French that decided to build N.O. almost 300 years ago where it was didn't anticipate the breach of the levees! "Hmmm, let's build a city with a lake on one side, a mighty river on another side, and the ocean on another side! And it will be below sea level!" Hello!!! Anybody see anything wrong with this picture??? Anybody??? <br /> <br />But everybody points the finger at the president. It's ALWAYS his fault. He should have been out there on the levee, with his flowing roba and staff, keeping the storm waters away from the city, right? Wouldn't the ACLU have had fun with that one...??? <br /> <br />[quote]QUOTE: 2) "What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them." –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the hurricane evacuees at the Astrodome in Houston, Sept. 5, 2005 (Source)[/quote]So? Many of the refugees (oh wait, we can't call them that, 'cuz it's somehow "racist" -- knobs) here in Wisconsin want to stay! Can you blame them!?? High and dry vs. living in the shadow of the sea... sounds like a no-brainer to me! And it sounds like the former first lady is smart enough to realize a tremendous opportunity for a lot of people as a result of the disaster. <br /> <br />I really don't care for the way that the president is getting the blame for a NATURAL DISASTER. This of course was followed by a lot of BUREAUCRATIC INCOMPETENCE, which was also not the president's fault! [banghead] I'm sure if he had his way, there wouldn't be any of said incompetence, but he's not the king, he's the <u>president</u>!!! There's a lot of other knobs in the middle -- most of them also elected by the <u>people</u> -- that need to be moved aside LONG BEFORE this "horrible president that we have". [V][:(!][V][:(!][V][:(!] <br /> <br />I thought this topic was about stupid quotes, not truths from some of the best-educated leaders in this country. Get better sources next time. <br /> <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Actually, people DID anticipate the breach of the levees. Serious faults in the ability of the levees to protect against a storm surge of a category 3 or higher had been grievances addressed by congress as far back as two years ago, but due to funding cuts (which BUSH was behind), the money wasn't there and the grievances weren't addressed, as a result, the levees stood up like toothpicks against a firehose. Bush's statement just shows how completely incompetent and clueless he was in this scenario. ANd the fault in an untimely response IS WITH HIM, not Nagin. Nagin is a flake, too, but he has a sliver of a fraction of the power that the president has. WHen a natural disaster occurs, it's the president's job to get his butt down there and address it - funding, national guard, etc. <br /> <br />As for Barbara Bush, Marie Antoinette couldn't have said it better. <br /> <br />Look, political discussions can get really nasty really fast and I'd otherwise want to refrain from voicing my opinion. Many of you who are Bush-supporters, we would be friends if we met in real life and didn't discuss politics. But it's hard for me to hear things I know are false being stated as fact. So please, can we just let this die and talk about trains again?
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