Michael: Accountability for Lake New Orleans
Accountability for Lake New Orleans levee breach and the flooding of New Orleans will be a major scandal for this Administration. The funding for improvements to the flood control district designed to mitigate the effect of a catagory 4 or 5 storm were diverted to other projects as a result of the elective Iraq war and homeland security boondoggles.When this shakes out into the mainstream media, it is going to crush Bush like a bug. We don't yet know the scale of the human disaster in new Orleans and surrounding areas, but I suspect in a few weeks we will realize that hundreds, if not thousands, will have died. Those deaths will demand an accounting and this Administration is already overextended.
posted by Michael Bryan @ 8/30/2005 11:13:00 PM
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"When this shakes out into the mainstream media, it is going to crush Bush like a bug. We don't yet know the scale of the human disaster in new Orleans and surrounding areas, but I suspect in a few weeks we will realize that hundreds, if not thousands, will have died. Those deaths will demand an accounting and this Administration is already overextended."
I wonder why one could not have waited until all of the bodies were accounted for before using the catastrophic, natural disaster for political gain.
I disagree that there is anything ghoulish or politically opportune about the desire to assign blame for a preventable tragedy. Immediately following 9/11, the very next question that occured to people after "who did it?" was, "could this have been prevented?" That second question still has not been adequately answered almost 4 years later. Given how long and difficult a process it can be to ferret out the answers to such complex issues of causality, it is not innapropriate to start asking the questions, and even suggesting conclusions, immediately.
Outrage demands an assignment of blame. Only those who aren't terriby outraged, or those who wish to shield the guilty, are themsleves outraged and 'shocked' by the 'opportunism' of legitimate allegations of blame.
That said, benway makes asks some important and germane questions which should be considered in his first comment.
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