Early warnings raised doubt on Bush disaster plans

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17208748.htm

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This memo is another smoking gun on Chertoff - note the date when he FINALLY declared Katrina an "incident" and went about taking some steps. And the meeting with Bush is for yet another day later!

http://www.realcities.com/multimedia/nationalchannel/news/KRT_Packages/archive/katrina/memo_to_cabinet_members.pdf
Read it closely - look at the date when Chertoff FINALLY declares the Katrina destruction an "incident" and BEGINS planning. Note that he will meet with Bush THE NEXT DAY.

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KR | 09/13 Chertoff delayed federal response, memo shows
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12637172.htm

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4777642
thread title: KR Report: 'Confused' Chertoff Delayed Federal Katrina Response

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Add this to the pile. Together they could have plugged the breach in the 17th Street Canal.

what he does.

Clinton impeached over basically nothing, with polls showing the country didn't want it to happen.

Bush worst president ever now most unpopular for all intents and purposes killing Americans left and right with offense after offense will not be impeached.

forced him to sacrifice Brownie and admit he's responsible in the very dysfunctional way he did. Rove, Cheney, and DeLay are in various degrees of trouble. Congressional Republicans balked at the more regressive "reforms" of the Bushistas and fear defeat next year because of Iraq and Katrina. And the MSM has turned more skeptical--not all of it but enough to make a difference.

In 1973 Richard Nixon looked invincible even with his own administration's armor showing gaps, and he had scored one of the biggest electoral landslides in US history just the year before the Senate Watergate hearings were held. My point is, these guys are not as omnipotent as they'd like you to think they are. Don't fall for their spin. And they're certainly not as smart as they think they are, either. Appointing Rove as overseer of the new New Orleans was a monumentally stupid move that Bush will regret, and Thursday's Haunted House speech in a city devoid of people pleased no one but its stage managers.

The best way to counter these types is to act as they do: don't give them any ground. If you have to step back, make it look as if you're stepping forward. Bush is running out of room to retreat into. The GOP will have to shake him off just as it had to shake off Nixon. The difference may be that Bush will have to go all the way, with a Senate conviction, and that, though painful for the country, will haunt the Republicans for at least a generation. Bush will make Herbert Hoover look like Mother Teresa. Wait and see.

I was wearing my pessimism on my sleeve, but I hope that you are correct and you have provided a very good analysis and perspective. (You should post it as a separate thread.) I hope that Fitzgerald will find a 'smoking gun,' and the horrible response to Karina adds to the pressure.

It's time to make a stand.

very little, it any of this on TV news.

Allows him to funnel funds to his contributors via pork.

Of one thing I am certain - from 9/11 to Katrina, this administration is the most disastrous in American History.

OCTOBER 2004:
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

....Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City.......