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New FEMA Director, David Paulison, announced today that there were many lessons learned from the failed response to hurricane Katrina. Paulison states that, "What happened in Katrina has changed the face of emergency management in this country." It seems to me that the current administration is claiming to reinvent the wheel at every turn. Did hurricanes Hugo, Andrew, Camille, etc... not teach us how to properly respond to a hurricane? The same holds true for Iraq. Didn't we learn the lessons of Vietnam to use in our march to war? How could we not have known there would be an insurgency? Or the cost of the war? Or the length of time we would be there? How about 9/11...the Bush administration's claim that no one could have possibly anticipated the use of commercial airliners as missiles? What about the "Voodoo economics" of Reagan's "trickle-down" theory? One can only hope that someone will fill Bush in on what happened in the late 40's with the Republican House Un-American Activities Committee witchhunt before it's too late.
Add to this already dangerous situation a watchdog that refuses to watch and it's no wonder we are in the situation we face today. Whether Congress is unwilling or unable to perform their sworn duty of presidential oversight is irrelevant - the outcome is the same.
Clearly, this President, his closest advisors, and administration have displayed a level of arrogant incompetence unparallelled in US history. And history will judge this period a dark one for the United States.
Lessons Learned?
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Posted By: Beth Posted on: Aug. 18, 2006 at 1:47 PM  7 Comments
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Aug. 18, 2006 at 05:20:00 PM
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| Good Article Beth! Another stupid Bushism today (paraphrasing) "of course Hezbollah claimed victory, I would probably do the same thing" Didn't he do the same with his Mission Accomplished codpiece modeling speech? The man is so stupid that he can't remember what he said 3.5 years ago, and how it plays in current events. |
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Aug. 18, 2006 at 09:23:39 PM
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| “One can only hope that someone will fill Bush in on what happened in the late 40's with the Republican House Un-American Activities Committee witchhunt before it's too late.” Beth, Bush has already been filled in, and he is all for witchunts. It’s already too late if you are depending on him and his minions to protect you from the Republican Un-American Un-patriotic Committee. They are the originators and diehard boosters of such anti-American activity. We had a little preview of their diabolical shenanigans when they successfully shut down dissent and discussion of Bush’s Iraq attack with shrill labels of “unpatriotic”. It’s downhill from there. |
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Aug. 18, 2006 at 10:43:51 PM
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| Clearly, this President, his closest advisors, and administration have displayed a level of arrogant incompetence unparallelled in US history. And history will judge this period a dark one for the United States. Up till 9-11, I kept thinking Chimpie would be another Papa Doc Bush. Then I worried he was more like a Reagan. Then I feared he was the new Nixon. But he's worse. I'm not sure which is Bush's worst attribute; his willful ignorance or his dogged determination for action based on his ignorant assumptions. |
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Aug. 18, 2006 at 10:54:42 PM
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| Bush said today that people that support the court decision against the Administration's uncontitutional wiretapping just don't understand how the world works, and that the judge's decision was naiive. This is so rich when Bush tells us how the world works! |
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Aug. 19, 2006 at 03:00:37 AM
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| chimpie... its funny because eventhough hes a jackass he looks like a monkey.
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Aug. 19, 2006 at 08:33:56 PM
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| A.C. in case you missed it . . . click on this [link:www.bushorchimp.com]
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I love your comment that this Administraion is seemingly reinventing the wheel at every turn. It's one thing to perfect an existing design; it's incompetence and ignorance when you're not even aware of the wheel's existence.
Last week Bill Maher came to town for a live performance. One of the funniest parts of his act was reviewing the really incredibly stupid things that come out of our President's mouth. One of his lines went something like this:
Quoting Bush, "We learned that after 9-11, oceans don't protect us anymore."
pause . . .
"No we didn't!!! We knew that oceans don't protect us! This is the 21st century, not the 14th. We've sent people to the moon - we have Tang. Of course we knew that oceans don't protect us . . . you're the only one who didn't know that. You don't sit in a schoolroom of 2nd graders for 7 minutes after you learn that we are under attack . . . in the nuclear age. What, did you think they were coming over by ship to attack us, and you had four months to think about it, President Charles in Charge?
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