Gee; how long is it going to take for the American MSM to report this:

Iraq war delayed Katrina relief effort, inquiry finds
By Kim Sengupta
Published: 03 October 2005

Relief efforts to combat Hurricane Katrina suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war, an official American inquiry into the disaster has revealed.

The confidential report, which has been seen by The Independent, details how funds for flood control were diverted to other projects, desperately needed National Guards were stuck in Iraq and how military personnel had to "sneak off post" to help with relief efforts because their commander had refused permission.

The shortcomings in dealing with Katrina have rocked George Bush's administration. Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has resigned from his post and polls show that a majority of Americans feel the President showed inadequate leadership.

The report was commissioned by the Office of Secretary of Defence as an "independent and critical review" of what went so wrong. In a hard-hitting analysis, it says: "The US military has long planned for war on two fronts. This is as close as we have come to reality since the Second World War; the results have been disastrous."


http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article316682.ece

lots of news this week

...thereby relieving the media of their duty to the people for the next week or so.

nuts with hours of coverage on it...or maybe Wacko Jacko will get hit with another lawsuit. Man, think of the HOURS and HOURS of wasted time the MSM whores could spend on THAT, instead of INFORMING THE PUBLIC...

disappearing while visiting a foreign country.

I'm not a freeper or anything, but the the reference to endemic corruption seems to refer to state and local officials.

It charts how "corruption and mismanagement within the New Orleans city government" had "diverted money earmarked for improving flood protection to other, more vote-getting, projects. Past mayors and governors gambled that the long-expected Big Killer hurricane would never happen. That bet was lost with Hurricane Katrina."



...where it states past mayors and governors?

stating "corruption and mismanagement within the new orleans city government had diverted money earmarked for improving flood protection to other, more vote-getting, projects"

but i'm sure they'll leave out the line "past mayors and governors gambled that the long-expected Big Killer hurricane would never happen."

(cause that's just how "liberal" our media is! baaaaahhhhh!!!)

Of course we all know that bush's hands are in the pockets of most MSM types. And you know what he's doing down there don't you?

I think we all know what a partisan outfit that is! The media can safely discount all of its findings and ignore any recommendations. After all, now that they're not standing right in the middle of Chimpy's incompetence, it's already a fading memory, just that much easier to overlook.