is bush at fault? Options

[*tweeak*]

to begin with, i'd like to point out that I do not support Bush. However, I cannot understand why people are blaming him for Katrina, just because he has troops in Iraq. It seems like a lame excuse to protest the war and find a scapegoat for the hurricane

so, do you think Bush is at fault for part of the Katrina ordeal?

[*disco infiltrator*]

*sigh*

New Orleans has some pretty poor parts of town. All the people who had enough money to get out did. Those who were too poor could not. Don't say there's a bus service..how can a single bus service evacuate millions of people? No. Come on now. They weren't like, "Oh, a hurricane's coming in a week? I think I'll stay to see what happens." People aren't that freaking stupid.

I agree those that could've gotten out should've, but it's true, some people couldn't. I'm still pretty curious about the prisoners in jail and what happened to them.....

People aren't saying the Bush administration is at fault for the hurricane; that's absurd. However, they had lots of notice. Shouldn't they have emergency food sources prepared for this very situation? After 9/11, the government had a group of qualified people get together and discern which cities were most vulnerable to natural disasters. New Orleans was deemed to be #2. You would think that when someone looks at a weather map and sees a gigantic hurricane covering the entire Gulf Coast and knows that the people there are very, very vulnerable to said disaster, there would be something done about it. People aren't appalled at the fact that there was a hurricane..that's not what the blame is for. It's the fact that they did know 2 or 3 days in advance that the hurricane was rated at a 5 and they know long ago that New Orleans is under sea level and nothing was done. No food storage, no water storage, no plan of what to do if the city flooded..nothing. No one had any idea of what to do, and if these people don't get food and water really, really soon they will DIE. Moving them to a different sports stadium really doesn't do much, especially when you fill it up so quickly. They need food and water now, and with our country being so high and mighty, it's amazing that we have no plans of anything to help them. We're so quick to send mass amounts of food, water, money, soldiers, etc. to so many other countries, but we can't even help those in our own?

What's done is done, some people didn't get out. Complaining about that does nothing right now. Let's make sure they live before we start worrying about rebuilding and whatever.

If we have so much to give, why is it so hard to send some down there?