Repeat : the strongest impeachment grounds possible

[BelgianMadCow]

As usual, Jon Stewart is as good as it gets.

Head on over to the Daily Show and have a look at the video Bush's Timeline.

It doesn't come any simpler than that.
And this moran dares to suggest an investigation in what went wrong?

I seriously wonder when you are gonna stop these madmen. I am surprised there hasn't been rioting in other cities. If America doesn't see the hideous beast unveiled, it never will (in time).

Today on our news over here "all remaining people will be evacuated, forcefully if need be".

Evacuation, forced, NOW??

I know this is "old" stuff but worthwile refreshing since the mist spouting "blame game" has started.

On 2nd edit (1st spelling) : with impeachment I mean by the employers of these AWOL employees : the public.

[OrlandoGator]

1. Dereliction of duty.

Cut and dried.

[BelgianMadCow]

3. cut and dried sounds good to me

but but, there will be ample time to put together a comission that will investigate all the failures.

They will come up with all kinds of communication failures and suggest some kind of all-new super agency.

[libertypirate]

6. We don't need a commission we need a special prosecutor and a

grand jury...

New Orleans is a crime scene...

[Occulus]

9. Criminal negligence.

Callous disregard for human life.

[BelgianMadCow]

10. not appropraitely funding the levee programmes is criminal, indeed

just a simple google :

Why the Levee Broke
By Will Bunch (senior writer, Philadelphia Daily News)
http://www.fredsakademiet.dk/tid/2000/2005/sep05.htm

<SNIP>
New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA.

Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with
carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside.

Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.

In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to this Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness:...
</SNIP>

So this ties right back into the illegal war for oil based on lies.

[brettdale]

2. kick

kick

[Usrename]

4. On the money

[Lindsay]

5. Re the forced evacuation,

what they've said (and you can believe it or not) is that both the water and sewerage systems were old and were pretty much destroyed by Katrina and the aftermath. And it will take considerable time to replace those systems, and meanwhile there will be no safe water for washing and bathing, let alone drinking.

There was one area, and I don't remember precisely where, that had not lost its water system. No reason to toss people out there, and I don't know if they are.

As for why we're not rioting - BushCo seems to want that, so they can declare martial law for the whole country. Don't ask me what the alternatives are, but I hope to heck we figure it out soon. I don't know if I can make it until the 2006 elections.

[BelgianMadCow]

7. It's just the absolutely bitter irony of evacuating NOW

that was so striking to me. I can follow what you're saying about the necessity to evacuate.

Concerning the rioting, yeah they'd probably use it as pretext for martial law. I doubt that the puclic at large is aware of the machine in place to move over to a shadow government with almost uncehcked powers, and consequently I doubt thoughts about that are keeping people from rising up.

But you need an army to enforce martial law, and with the reports of NG in Iraq wanting to return to help and FEMA people refusing to carry out silly tasks (handing out FEMA tel number) I wonder if enough troops would be found.

The fascist part of your society is just that, fascist. And the veil is skin-thin now. But they are a minority.

NGU

[BlueJac]

8. Bullseye on the Bushit