Bush compares, contrasts Katrina and Nine-Eleven

[sabra]

http://www.woodtv.com/global/story.asp?s=3794044&ClientType=Printable

Bush compares, contrasts Katrina and Nine-Eleven

WHITE HOUSE President Bush says while Nine-Eleven was a man-made attack and Hurricane Katrina natural, their aftermath is "just as serious."

Bush tells A-B-C "New Orleans is more devastated than New York was." But, he promises the city will rise again.

He says seeing the destruction from Air Force One was emotional. Bush plans to tour devastated areas tomorrow.

[rodeodance]

1. and the simularlity is........NO PLANNING

[Mass]

6. Katrina is basically natural (though global warming probably helped)

but the lacking in protection and preparation are manmade.

[Brundle_Fly]

16. no, not no planning .

no funding

"It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."??-- Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.


http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002331.html

[SharonAnn]

63. The contrast is this, with 9-11 we had Clinton's FEMA, with this we

have *'s FEMA.

[demo dutch]

2. Yeah just as unpre-prepared!

[elehhhhna]

and 9/11 didn't change a thing, afterall. No prep, no plan, no nuthin.

[pinerow]

3. What an idiot...never misses an opportunity to mention 9/11...

who are we going to attack in response to this tragedy...sheesh

[efhmc]

4. Wondered when that would happen.

[intheflow]

5. "Just as serious?"

No, George. The situation in NO is much worse. No enemy attack, but probably thousands more casualties, much worse environmental degredation, much worse property damage.

[Rhiannon12866]

68. I got gas couple of hours ago and people at the pumps were shouting

to each other, bashing Bush*!!!:wow:

[BlueEyedSon]

7. "seeing the destruction from Air Force One"???

isnt that a jumbo jet?
It flys way too high & fast to see much.....

[durablend]

8. Yep--9/11 and Katrina the same...

YOU FUCKED UP BOTH OF THEM

[Massachusetts]

9. Keep Talkin Georgie Fool.

Insert foot in mouth!

You are helping to make my wish come true. That the Bush family name is forever an EMBARRASSMENT in the history of our country (and world).

[truthisfreedom]

10. bush was on vacation both times, was warned both times and did nothing.

yeah, i see the similiarities. bush will go down in history as "the casual president" who ran the country in his slippers, rather forgetful and unassuming.

[marbuc]

11. "...the destruction from Air Force One was emotional"

A tear came to his eye as he was reminded of his last fishin' trip in the bayou. "Them redfish were good eatin'" he recalls fondly. When reminded of the flooding, Bush's reminiscence turns to confusion "There are people down there? Why didn't they just swim away?"

[Seabiscuit]

54. The destruction 0F Air Force One would be emotional - i.e. jubilation

Not so much the aircraft as its occupants.

[VegasWolf]

62. "Now bring my diner! It's a long flight to DC." nt

[tenshi816]

12. 9/11, 9/11, 9/11, 9/11

I wondered how long it would take the Dumbass to link them together somehow, because he relies on the Pavlovian response he gets from his base when they hear "9/11". All he has to do is drop that one reference into a sentence and the brain-dead ones are reassured that their Preznit is "keeping them safe", so they tune out and go back to watching wrestling.

I'm sure Bill Clinton's blowjob is what really caused Katrina. Someone will make the connection soon enough.

[KittyWampus]

13. Why, We Could Never Imagine ........... fill in the blank

we'd have moved heaven and earth if we knew where and when a hurricane would strike NOLA.

[DLnyc]

27. And even though the NOAA report was titled "Category 5 Hurricane Headed

Straight for New Orleans", the memo was basically historical in nature.

[calimary]

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[Inland]

34. You joke, but he said it this morning.

Nobody could have imagined the levees would break, or something like that.

[Eurobabe]

14. Similarity is shit for brains as pResident!

PDB Aug. 25, Crawford. Ala Condi...(if I had known the seat numbers)

If I had know Katrina was coming, I would shored up those LEVEES!

[ShockediSay]

18. Similarity is asleep at swtich President

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

[calimary]

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[bluestateguy]

15. I'm fucking tired of hearing about 9-11

It happened, it was an outrage, and a tragedy.

It was also 4 years ago.

Unless you lost a relative on 9-11, or you were injured at Ground Zero, it's time to get the hell over it and move on!!!!!

9-11 is not the only tragedy to ever befall this nation, nor will it be the last!

[Danmel]

31. Please spare me your get over it shit

I didn't lose any family members but I live and work in NY and it is real to us every single day. All we have to do is look downtown and see what is not there to be seen. We are still a target, we lost a real part of our city. To New Yorkers the 9-11 attacks are personal. It was OUR city, OUR home that was hurt, that is hurt. And even if we all carry on every day and continue living and have fun, it is all still real and just below the surface for New Yorkers. So don't sit there from your position of safety and tell us you're sick of hearing about 9-11.

I don't like 9-11 used as a rallying cry for Bush's fuck up in Iraq either. I don't like 9-11 used as justification for restriction of our civil and human rights or demonization of people either.

But I will never ever get over it. No one should.

And as to comparing it to Katrina? Well, with respect to this administrations utter unpreparedness and utter incompetence and utter inability to plan and prevent and properly handle-there are great similarities.

As to this administrations disregard for the environment, sell out to corporate interests, and diversion of funds from cities to the war, yeah, they screwed this up and they screwed up pre 9-11 intelligence

But I think the similarities end there and comparing the two catastrophes does nothing to help the people who need help now or honor those who have perished as a result of these two disasters.

[Massacure]

17. Good. Now declare war on global warming you stupid little chimp!

[hatrack]

42. You didn't hear about the Gulf of Mexico bombing campaign?

It's called "Operation Enduring Stunned Fish".

[samsingh]

19. bush is the common theme

[VegasWolf]

20. YES, and he was a FAILURE on BOTH disasters!!!! nt

[hatrack]

21. Well, that didn't take long, now did it?

"New Orleans is more devastated than New York was."

Perceptive little monkey isn't he?

[VegasWolf]

22. What part of "Major Hurricane will hit New Orleans in 4 days,"

does boy genius think is similar to 9/11????

[Bridget Burke]

28. "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US"

Folks are always trying to mess up his vacations...

[noonwitch]

23. In both cases, we are watching americans die on television

Whatever the death toll is, this is far worse than 9-11 in the sense that survivors of 9-11 still had their homes and families waiting for them. I suspect the death toll is going to be around the same or higher, but it won't be easy to determine for a long time.

[Dr Batsen D Belfry]

24. One major difference

He wasn't reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar, because he was eating cake at a photo op while people were dying.

I am surprised he didn't make a comparison between Katrina and a 7-11

DBDB

[buddysmellgood]

25. Katrina attacked, I guess we should invade Venezuala.

[Javaman]

26. Honestly, are we really surprised by this???

I said this on Sunday, that he would use 9/11 and I got hell for it. Now, I hate to be the cat that caught the mouse, but there is nothing this scumbag* won't resurrect to boost his plummeting poll numbers. All he has is 9/11, which happened on his watch, to confuse the public into thinking he* is a capable leader.

Face it folks, he's* a scumbag. Any hope that any of you hold out that he has some shred of decency in him*, I think, this latest 9/11 mention by him* dispels that myth.

The guy is an utter and complete failure in epic proportions. We are now seeing him (and finally the rest of the nation) as the uncaring, selfish, manipulating, condescending, fuck that he* really is.

colossal failure*.

[The White Tree]

29. And while he is comparing it to 9/11

Some of the media newscasts I've seen have compared it (the looting in particular) to Baghdad after the US invasion (I beleive CNN was one).

Interesting dichotomy. When I heard that on the news I was waiting to see Rumsfeld come on and say, "Well, Freedom is messy". Although were clamping down on the looters here apparantly.

Strangely, when the comparison was made to Bahgdad, I was thinking the most logical comparison would be to the Tsunami in December. While I'm sure someone has made that comparison in some way, I haven't heard it in the MSM. Out of sight out of mind I guess.

[northzax]

38. I did see an interview with some marines

from the area who are in Iraq, and they were looking at pictures of Biloxi. I was waiting for one of them to say "hey, that looks like what we did to Fallujah" poor guys.

[JawJaw]

58. + + This Just In From Rummie Press Conference + +

"Television is merely running the same footage of the same man stealing a television over and over..."

[Roy]

30. Where are the 'looter shooters'?

They sure pick their threads carefully don't they? you only see them in the divide the dems threads, but NO they are not here to disrupt.

[katty]

32. Yea-why did he wait days to get there?! he's glad Iraq

and the VPlame investigation is out of the news.
FOR STARTERS - drop some WATER and FOOD OVER THE SUPERDOME-just to alleviate SOME of the desperate need

[SiouxJ]

33. He gave the illusion of preparedness

All that money going into Homeland Security was supposed to prepare us for anything. It's obvious we are even less prepared for disasters now than we were pre-911. It was all talk. So typical.

[darkism]

35. Both things that could have been made MUCH less severe...

...if bush were not an incompetent fuckwit.

Yea, I see the similarities.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

36. Is he comparing the fact that he was caught with his thumb

up his ass both times?

[mike923]

37. Bush doesn't have a prayer at winning in '08!*

[VegasWolf]

39. Not true! Jeb is already being coached!! nt

[calimary]

48. Welcome to DU!

bush is FUCKING PATHETIC! I knew he'd try to weave in 9/11.

BASTARD.

FUCKWAD.

ASSWIPE.

INCOMPETENT.

IDIOT.

Any other CEO with even an ounce of conscience and self-respect would have tendered his/her resignation by now - for the USDA Prime Botch Job this guy has done. That's the only mature, adult, responsible thing to do at this point. But oh, no. Not this guy. At this trying time, we "need" his "leadership."


:grr:

[Roy]

40. This is news conference day

If they would feed and evacute just 25 people for every news conference they hold, the affected areas will be clear of people in a week.

Spin and PR is the only action being taken while 1000's suffer and die. But these are not conservative voters anyway so spin and PR is all that needed right no for these folks.

[subutane]

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Side note: Could a DU member post this as a new post, I don't have permission yet.

[subutane]

43. please :)

thank you.

[calimary]

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[subutane]

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Guess Who Castrated FEMA?

Frankly, this is not the most difficult question ever posed. The usual suspects are, of course, in the frame. Here is a hint: it was the same group that just slashed $71.2 million from the New Orleans District budget which was largely for urban flood control. MORE >

Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war.

There were not enough helicopters to repair the breeched levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guards available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting. MORE >

[DrZeeLit]

44. He has NO shame whatsoever. Disgusting. The slime ball.

[Supersedeas]

45. Bush readies the Bullhorn...Rove plans the questions from the 'audience'

[Maggie_May]

46. The way this man handled this

Hurricane I would definitely say he is incompetent to be the President. There should have been food and water dropped in Monday night. This is a total disgrace!!!!

[sallyseven]

47. What a fool he really is.

He should get his head out of his rear and look around.

[calimary]

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[anotherdrew]

53. says bush, "9/11 worked for me, this doesn't, I can't use this"

[Seabiscuit]

55. On first read I thought you wrote Shrub contrasts Katrina to Seven-Eleven

Not used to seeing 9/11 spelled out as Nine-Eleven. I am used to seeing Seven-Eleven spelled out, though.

[markam]

57. I wrote my response

then realized that someone else thought the same thing when they saw the heading

[markam]

56. he might as well contrast it to 7-eleven (the store)

He would have just as much luck deflecting the blame with that approach

[Lisa]

59. looks like some editorial cartoonists aren't convinced

[iamjoy]

60. I Won't Knock Dubya For This One

I have been thinking of the ways this is like 9-11 for days.

The missed opportunities, failures to protect Americans.

The way my confidence in the strength of this country is shaken.

The heartbreaking loss of life, and less significant, but still there, the destruction of something great

[leesa]

61. Is he jealous that Katrina might outdo the BushCo attack on 9-11

He'll be pissed if Katrina killed more people than he did! Don't worry psychopath, you are a good 150,000 ahead.

[against all enemies]

64. It's more like Iraq. Too little too late.

[sakabatou]

65. We can sompare it too

YOU FUCKED IT UP.

[The Judged]

66. Weather can be manipulated just as easily as planes? Weather experts?

What is the latest and most up to date information on the manipulation of environmental variables and weather related changes and events?

This is an issue of high importance that needs immediate attention.

Why the new Ads illustrating what NYC would look like if submerged in water, and the public statements that these Ads predated "Katrina?"

Just a coincidence, of course!

"<...> drove my Chevy to the levee, but the levee WAS dry <...>"

Things happen in 3's?

Over calculated and predictable?

Maybe I'm crazy?

[ngGale]

67. Funding cuts, FEMA run by another dumb friend...

of *. This time I know * and his policies are at fault. Which really makes this worse for me. We had warnings, no planning again - oops, that's right - vacation time again! Should have know it.:sarcasm:

[Rhiannon12866]

69. Daily KOS: A Catastrophe of 9/11 Proportions

http://storiesinamerica.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/1/2520/02543

[neuvocat]

71. Does that mean there's a War on Nature now?

I mean, an official one?

"Ah told you that all these trees had to be cut down because of all that oxygen they produce. If there wasn't all that oxygen, then there wouldn't have been any hurricanes. If there weren't any hurricanes then america would be safer, ah tells ya!"

[antonialee839]

72. Yeah, he had advanced notice for both of them.

[pinniped]

73. Look, they taught the asshole a new word- emotional.

About the only thing * knows about it is how to pronounce it.