The "we couldn't forsee this happening" line isn't going to make it

[FloridaPat]

this time. The worse case scenario was all anyone talked about for the week before Katrina hit. Everyone in the country we preparing for the worst except for our elected officials and the people in charge.

[whalerider55]

1. hey pat...

you've taken the quote out of context. what they couldn't foresee happening was that 'mericuns would finally see through the bs and view the white house for what it really is... the ATM machine for the corporate class.

whalerider

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. No, it won't fly for 2 reasons 1) the press finally woke the *&^(% up and

2) everybody knows somebody who knows somebody who is down there living (or god help them dying) through this disaster.

** can't cover this one up.. can't whitewash over the blood or spray lysol over the stench of death.

Not. This. Time.


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[opihimoimoi]

3. He really means it...He did not expect this to Happen...dats cause he don

watch TV NEWS..instead....he watches other things,,,,like cartoons/porn/reruns.

He is a child in the Chair of the RED BUTTON....

[ComerPerro]

7. And, if he couldn't have predicted this or done anything about it

then its just further proof that he really should not be President. He is dangerously unqualified and incompetent.

[Booster]

11. And he and the other conservatives need to stop blaming the

victims because "they were warned and chose to stay". They're trying to have to both ways again; "we didn't know, but they should have". Asswipes & murderers.

[applegrove]

4. Anything that makes the federal government look like some sort of

helpful thing... would set back the "reprogramming" of the freepers months.

Remember: Emotions are for the GOP elections campaigns and advertisement we consume to get us to buy things. Any unlawful use of emotion..as in the time of disaster as felt by real human beings.. is just plain wrong. We must wean ourselves off such emotions. If they don't make anyone a dollar, or convert someone into a GOP voter - they are not valid emotions indeed. :sarcasm:

[osaMABUSh]

5. we've heard that "who woulda thunk?" line before

"I believe the title was, Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States." Condoleezza Rice's 9/11 commission statement

[Lefty48197]

6. Plus the Repugnicans cut funding to prepare for a level 5 hurricane in NO

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367

"Also, a study to determine ways to protect the region from a Category 5 hurricane has been shelved for now."

Good job you stupid assed Republican members of Congress. Why don't you go cut some more taxes for George Bush's rich friends instead of helping us prepare for problems, such as this?

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Not to mention an article in National Geographic

5 years ago.

[IMayBeWrongBut]

14. Documentaries on it for years

Discovery Channel/Learning Channel also had a couple documentaries on the NO levee situation as well..

[thinkingwoman]

9. yeah, "who could have known?" is soooo 9/11

Seriously. Nobody is buying it this time.

[indie_voter]

10. hoist with their own petard

They used 24 hour cable to sound the drumbeat for war.

These same channels were warning about Katrina for days, wall to wall coverage. The whole country watched this happen, they can't go back and say "DUH, we didn't know"

Everyone knew.

[johnnydrama]

12. popular mechanics too

Another article was in popular mechanics on....9/11/01

Called NEW ORLEANS IS SINKING

[IMayBeWrongBut]

13. Discovery Channel/Learning Channel

edit oops mispost

[Pallas180]

15. Florida channel 5 news reporting that administration had a model

which showed exactly the catastrophe that happened during the hurricane and with the Lake overflowing which had been built by engineers fairly recently, estimating what would happen with the levees breaking.