If You're Not Outraged, You're Not Paying Attention.

[lagilman]

WASHINGTON - In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

(from an AP article)


If we can't impeach the lying, blood-stained bastard, can we put him on trial for premeditated manslaughter? Please?

Comments

[going-not-gone.livejournal.com]

Really leaning toward lynching right now. Goddamn it.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

If we can't impeach the lying, blood-stained bastard, can we put him on trial for premeditated manslaughter? Please?

I wish.

The sad thing? He probably really believed they were fully prepared, he's that kind of stupid. Unfortunately, that kind of stupid combined with that kind of power gets lots of people killed.

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

Oh, come on! He just let a bunch of poor, black people get wiped out. It's not like he did something truly heinous, like...oh...say...get a blowjob. Not *that* is something to impeach a President for.

You gotta keep your perspective!

[merlinpole.livejournal.com]

Malfeasance, negligent homicide, criminal neglect, breaking various Bill of Rights amendments concerns things like unreasonable searches and seizures/without warrant, holding persons in detention for months without warrants etc....

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Growl . . . .

[j-bluestocking.livejournal.com]

Nicely put here:

http://iocaste212.livejournal.com/872998.html

[neutronjockey.livejournal.com]

There are sadly, many things which this president (and when you dig---not even deeply---other presidents) brush aside and instead push 'other' issues to the front plate. You'd be shocked (or not) at the number of disasters and casualties that could have been avoided in the last 20 years if *someone* who had the power to do something had taken heed. I'm digging, and I'm losing faith daily.
-=Jeff=-

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

Well, they tried to impeach Clinton for less than that...

But then we'd have President Cheney which is no less appealing to me and in some ways more distressing....

[chibiaingeal.livejournal.com]

BTW, the last thing I heard on the radio before going to my desk was that we aren't supposed to read too much into that video. The frell?????

It shows him being warned AND claiming to be fully prepared when he denied ever being warned. And that's just for starters....

As if my blood pressure wasn't already high enough.....

[lagilman]

As a history major and buff, not shocked, no. But I wasn't a voting adult citizen during most of those times.

This isn't a military justification, or a political sidestep for expedience or further benefit-of-greater-good. This was, at the vey least, criminal malfeasance in front of witnesses. I want him put under oath and asked directly if he was responsible for needless and preventable deaths and suffering during Katrina.

_then_ we can nail him for perjury.

[greeneyedkzin.livejournal.com]

It is not as satisfying as immediate public disgrace, but the judgment of history is inexorable.

My read on Bush is that he is a man with a number of demons: his brother Jeb was considered more capable, he's failed at a variety of enterprises, he wouldn't have -this- job were it not for family connections and family entitlement (which drove most of his other "achievements," including his admission to universities); and now that he has -this- job, he's failed at it. And he is terrified of his parents, whom he can never satisfy.

Nixon achieved a kind of dignity in the last years of his life. Carter, who was never as successful a president as he might have been, has become a Nobel laureate. I expect similar revisionism on Clinton. In fact, I suspect it's started, driven by the utter wretchedness of his successor.

He'll be KNOWN for what he is: a bloodthirsty, ineffectual failure whose callous attacks on Iraq for perceived WMDs worsened an already disastrous situation, and a liar who abandoned the victims of Katrina and Rita because they had money.

History has very little mercy.

[barbara-ferrenz.livejournal.com]

This administration has been a trainwreck from the beginning. I want everyone who voted for Bush's re-election to line up and put out their hands to be whacked with a ruler. (I thought being shot was a little too extreme, so I fell back on the nuns' favorite.)

[neadods.livejournal.com]

the last thing I heard on the radio before going to my desk was that we aren't supposed to read too much into that video. The frell?????

Remember, this is the same power structure that made a man apologize for being shot in the head and chest by the VP. Naturally the first reaction is going to be "Are you going to believe what I tell you or your lying eyes?"

[lagilman]

"We have always been at war with Oceana..."

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, come on! He just let a bunch of poor, black people get wiped out. It's not like he did something truly heinous, like...oh...say...get a blowjob. Not *that* is something to impeach a President for.

You gotta keep your perspective!

Perspective was the whole issue in that case. The perspective of the HAVES and the HAVE-NOTS. Clinton had a blowjob. The Republicans didn't have one. If the GOP had been able to get some action, they wouldn't have needed to impeach Clinton. (Maybe they need to put a line item in the budget for next time.)

Sean

[(Anonymous)]

This administration has been a trainwreck from the beginning. I want everyone who voted for Bush's re-election to line up and put out their hands to be whacked with a ruler. (I thought being shot was a little too extreme, so I fell back on the nuns' favorite.)

We can't shoot them. All the gun nuts are on their side.

Sean

[kalligraphy.livejournal.com]

I have this fantasy that the GOP will one day be held accountable for George W. Bush. That the people who voted for him will find remorse. That the people who actively support him will be kicked from the country, the politicians who aided and abetted him will be tossed in jail. Finally I dream that the media machine executives that were complicit in his actions by NOT telling the American people what was really happening, when it was happening, are shot. And then I realize that none of this will ever happen. The White House spin machine, the talking head pundits and the media giants will wash it all away. The cult of personality fanatics that are in love with Georgie will celebrate that they were vindicated. The great unwashed masses will stumble back to the TV and watch American Idol. And the rest of us will be left to rage at the injustice of it all.

My only hope is that the next election cycle brings a reprieve. But if history is any clue, Georgie's crimes will go unpunished regardless. Too many politicians have too much to lose if they enforce justice on him.

[ilvack.livejournal.com]

I lived in Louisiana for over twenty years before coming to the Pacific Northwest. I was fortunate enough to not lose anyone when Katrina hit, but entire towns from my childhood were erased. People were killed.

Outraged? You bet I am. You don't shrug off a Cat 5, you can't say you're fully prepared. As the president of the United States, it's his job to protect us. And he failed.

[allaboutm-e.livejournal.com]

:: grrrr ::

not to mention -- why did it take 6 months for this to come to light?

and don't tell me it isn't new information... :( maybe not new to the White House, but new to folks who maybe believe Bush when he said they had no early warning about the potential magnitude of the impact

[(Anonymous)]

Uh, I'm a gun nut and I'm not on their side.

Funny thing that. Not all Bush haters are cut from the same cloth. We're just all heartbroken by what our country is becoming.

Pat Kirby