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The check's in the mail.

There are people on the Left who couldn't wait to use this against Bush. The day after the hurricane hit NO, before the levees broke, the focus was on global warming and "See what Bush not signing Kyoto results in! See!" Please note that I'm not saying everyone on the Left did this, but it was disturbing that there were as many as there were.

AD, you're forgetting that it's twice as important to give when the cameras are rolling.

"I already gave him two dollars." "WHAT? Damn woman, now he'll never leave!"

Yeah, photoshop gives your posts credibility. Still love to know what President Nozzlenut would have done differently or what other country on earth would have responded as well. It was an unprecedented natural disaster and FEMA's response time was right on par with previous hurricanes. EDIT: Oh, by the way....HALLIBURTON! FLIGHTSUIT! GOAT STORY!!

RACIST!!!!!!!!!! (but only if you're white)

Yeah, so anyways I vote that Kanye West is indeed retarded and fairly racist as well......

Link This is interesting. He continues: And, of course, no one has been able to name a country that could have done better.

Great game. JP went way beyond my expectations!

I can't think of one country that could have responded better.

What, you thought Newsweek would miss a chance to both give props to Clinton and knock the Bush family? Anyone seen my desecrated Koran?

The new Dawn of the Dead was incredible.

So in your eyes it's a bigger deal that there were people forced to live in poor conditions for several days than it is that thousands of people drowned because there was not a proper evacuation of the city and the levees were not sufficient. They bus poor people to the polls on election day but they can't do it when they're in mortal danger?

Nice try. I definitely didn't say or imply that "no one" died from dehydration, etc. in the wake of the hurricane. What I am saying is that the response wasn't the critical step in saving people's lives. How long does it take to drown? Maybe a minute? So a faster response would have saved exactly no one who stayed in the city and drowned. And even if the administration gave a tone deaf response to the hurricane initially, the response has been fast by hurricane standards and the scale of this disaster is unprecedented anyway. You can argue that the response should have been faster in a post 9/11 world (which is a valid point) but putting all the emphasis on the response is pretty much just a means of putting all the emphasis on Bush.

Great find. Amazing.

Yikes.

Respond to all the people in the city who had already drowned as a result of having no means of getting out because there was no plan in place or leadership to do just that? Yeah, great. I don't understand why "response time" is the point that people keep emphasizing when basically no response could undo the damage that was already done by not having proper levees in place and having no plan from the mayor or governor for evacuating the city. Oh well.

They were overwhelmed a week before the storm hit. They need to do better than that. It's not the federal government's responsibility to make sure that every local government is doing it's job. If it was, then why have local governments at all? The Governor was taking her sweet time to even let the President do anything and had to be told to order the mandatory evacuation. The most blatant example of anyone dragging their feet during this whole thing was Blanco telling the President that she "needed 24 hours" to mull over her options when Bush and Co. were trying to get involved.

Yeah, because Bush cares more about Americans who live in the state his brother runs. Remove your head from your ass and then remove the tinfoil hat from your head.

Link And then there's this: Written by the Associated Press of all people!

Outside help was needed and offered, but the Governor of LA decided she wasn't that interested at the time. She didn't even order the mandatory evacuation until President Bush convinced her to do so. That fact isn't even disputed at this point.

He re-enlisted to fight to "set up the Islamic theocracy" as you say. The easiest way to avoid being killed in the U.S. Armed Forces is to not enlist in the first place. These people aren't children. They're adults who make conscious decisions about what to do with their lives. Casey Sheehan choose to fight for his country and that's why he should be held in high esteem.