Anyone else notice, * keeps ignoring real threasts for fake ones?

[Mugsy]

A thought crossed my mind today that has probably crossed yours too...

Does it seem to anyone else that this Administration seems to have a bad habit of ignoring *real* emergencies and disasters in favor of fictitious ones?

Before 9/11, President Bush ignored the infamous August 6th PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) warning of a likely terrorist threat inside the United States, and we all know what happened next. After 9/11, the Bush Administration diverted its attention from finding and crushing al-Qaeda in favor of invading Iraq... a contained war-torn nation with an impotent secular dictator with non-existent weapons of mass destruction. And the result? Al-Qaeda is alive and well and Iraq has been turned into a terrorist training ground threatening to become yet another Islamic fundamentalist theocracy that hates America.

Next we saw hurricane Katrina heading for New Orleans. Last June, the Bush Administration cut funding for levy reconstruction in Louisiana by $72M. Nothing was done to minimize the disaster certain to come. Instead, President Bush flew to Idaho to pitch his plan to privatize Social Security, a government program that is solvent for the next 40 years. Yet another non-existent threat receives greater attention than the real one we knew was on the way. Then after the disaster hits, we're impotent to respond because 35% of our National Guard troops and Billions of our tax dollars are tied up in Iraq. Bush's solution... easing pollution restrictions on oil companies so they can produce more gas for less money. Gasoline hits a national average of $3.30 over night.

In early 2001, FEMA declared that the three greatest potential disasters America faces in the coming years:

1. A terrorist attack in New York City.
2. A major hurricane striking New Orleans.
3. A major earthquake hits San Francisco.

They're batting 1000 right now in ignoring warnings and failing to address deadly disasters while there is time. Let's pray SanFran's residence are preparing for the worst this morning because I can assure your their government is not.

"I don't think anyone could have foreseen the levies giving way like they did." - President Bush on the flooding of New Orleans.
"I don't think anyone could have foreseen terrorists using airplanes as missiles" - Condoleezza Rice after 9/11.

[bushisanidiot]

1. Exactly! Wherever americans are in danger, AWOL Bush runs the other way!

he's a chicken shit little girl who knows nothing about LEADING..

he only knows how to panic and run away!

[applegrove]

2. Wedges & political capital are all that matter. Think of the huge

payoff to Bush for not showing sympathy or Presidential help to the poor in NO. Think what it teaches: that poor people, who cannot make corporations richer, should be hated and disregarded.