Bush resists immediate probe into Katrina response (from the UK)

[Kerrytravelers]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/06092005/325/bush-resists-immediate-probe-katrina-response.html

Bush resists immediate probe into Katrina response
Tuesday September 6, 10:28 PM

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush pledged on Tuesday to review what went wrong in the initial response to Hurricane Katrina but resisted any immediate probe and lawmakers launched an investigation of their own.

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With $10.5 billion already set aside, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada predicted the recovery effort could end up costing $150 billion -- a figure that could put pressure on Bush to give up some tax cuts he wants to extend.

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The No. 2 House Republican, Tom DeLay of Texas, scolded Reid. "People that just throw numbers out, not knowing what they're talking about, I think it's pretty irresponsible," DeLay said.

With some critics pointing to the fact that insufficient troops at the outset slowed the relief effort, top Pentagon officials denied there had been any delay.

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Bush said he was dispatching U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney to the disaster zone on Thursday to try to remove any "bureaucratic obstacles that may be preventing us from achieving our goals."

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Asked where the buck stops in the Bush administration, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said: "The president." But he said to launch a probe now could divert people involved in the recovery effort from doing their jobs.

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Like a hot potatoe, everyone is quick to hand over the buck when it gets to them. Notice how in every pragraph of the complete article, the rethugs are busy blaming someone else?

What wonderful "leadership." :eyes:

[krkaufman]

1. Bush: "This administration will be part of the assessment"

I agree w/ Bush on this one. His administration *should* be part of the assessment. In the same way a serial killer is involved in a murder investigation.

[robbedvoter]

2. But then decides to be the investigator:

Bush launches inquiry and puts himself in charge of it
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article310798.ece

[Demobrat]

3. Cheney. Oh God.

As if the man has anybody's interests at heart but Halliburton's.

So he will " remove any bureaucratic obstacles that may be preventing us from achieving our goals."

And what goals would those be, exactly?

[elehhhhna]

4. Boy Howdy! Where have we seen THAT headline before?

911 maybe.

[VegasWolf]

5. LBN: Bush to link Iraq and Katrina. "We must get hurricanes over there

before they get us here," Bush says to media.

[mcscajun]

6. Oh, fuck! Cheney???

Why don't they just send a few sociopaths over from the nearest psychiatric ward for the criminally insane? They'd have as much concern.