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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:30 PM
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Read a PDF copy of the Bush-approved 2004 "National Response Plan."
National Response Plan, December 2004

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/09/criminal_neglig.html

CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AND KATRINA?

by Larry C. Johnson

The provocative title is intentional. Why did the Bush Administration fail to act according to the National Response Plan they created in December of 2004 to deal with an incident like Katrina?
What do you do when the words on the paper don't match the action in the field? People are dying today in New Orleans because of the failure to provide immediate aid are dead in part because of the negligence of Michael Chertoff. That is a harsh judgment, but if you will take time to read the National Response Plan that was signed into effect in December of 2004 there is no other reasonable conclusion.

The current effort by the Bush Administration to blame the victims in Louisiana and Mississippi is bad enough, but they are in big trouble once Americans take the time to understand that they the Administration ignored it's own plan for dealing with a threat like Katrina. Why did they fail to implement the plan until it was too late to save lives along the Gulf Coast?

Don't take my word for it, read the plan yourself. You can download it at http://www.dhs.gov/interweb/assetlibrary/NRPbaseplan.pdf

The National Response Plan was accepted and implemented by Bush Administration in December 2004. According to the PREFACE, President Bush, "directed the development of a new National Response Plan (NRP) to align Federal coordination structures, capabilities, and resources into a unified, all discipline, and all-hazards approach to domestic incident management. . . .The end result is vastly improved coordination among Federal, State, local, and tribal organizations to help save lives and protect America's communities by increasing the speed, effectiveness, and efficiency of incident management."

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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 06:36 PM
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1. All icing, no cake.
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:00 PM
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2. It was a PR move, nothing else....all makeup....lipstick on a pig thingy
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Bush_Eats_Beef Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-04-05 07:03 PM
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3. I used to work at Cisco Systems...they LOVED that crap.
Sit in a room and listen to self-absorbed, back-stabbing suck-up project managers wank over endless PowerPoint presentations for projects that were NEVER...GOING...TO...HAPPEN.

NEVER.

ENDLESS dog & pony shows.

Cisco was a LOT like the Bush Administration.
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