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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/4/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Pat Kraut</b> <<a href="mailto:pkraut@moscow.com">pkraut@moscow.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">Oh come on Andrea! If Bush had ordered the go ahead you'd be mad that he 'took over'. Face it, you just don't like Bush or anything he does. Nothing he or anyone under him meets your approval! The locals have blown this so badly and its too bad because people have really suffered because of it.
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<div>I'm not defending Nagin. I'm not defending Blanco. Both screwed up, and Louisiana voters can do as they please with them. Katrina, however, was a national emergency which demanded a national response, and that response was bungled by the people in charge -- FEMA -- to the Nth degree. I expect people to be held accountable, especially Chertoff and the serially incompetent Browne.
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<div>Also note that I am challenging not reality, which was that the federal response was approved on the 26th of August, but the patently false spin being peddled by the White House that federal response wasn't asked for by Tuesday. Even if that were the case, which it isn't, the response would be ridiculous: the White House is expecting us to believe that the federal government was forced to sit on its hands because the proper paperwork wasn't filed.
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<div>When you appoint people to positions not despite of, but rather because of their disdain for the principle that government can be a positive force in peoples' lives, this has consequences. Bush did so, and Louisianans and Mississippians are now reaping the consequences There are no atheists in foxholes, and there are no Libertarians in hurricanes.
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<div><font face="Arial" size="2">And I do not read posts with foul language in them. </font></div><span class="sg">
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<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:19 AM</div>
<div style="FONT: 10pt arial"><b>Subject:</b> Re: @SPAM+++++++++ Re: [Vision2020] Of Deltas and CO2</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">But they are not allowed to engage until authorized by state officials, which did not happen until 2 days after the storm hit.
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<div>Third of all, what you are telling me is that the poor federal government, like some sort of gigantic, bureaucracy-crazed DMV clerk, realized that it couldn't assist in one of its three most likely catastrophic scenarios because /the proper paperwork wasn't signed/? This strains credibility and punches right through logic and out the other side. What the hell were they afraid of -- a lawsuit by the state of Louisiana?
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