US Democracy == “rules don’t apply to those with money”.

If you think that is just and fair, then continue to believe the hype. If you think that is a load of hypocritical BS, then stop posting on web sites and take action at a local level to make the reality match the rhetoric.

The rest of the world will thank you for it.

The people of New Orleans have had the experience of levees protecting them for generations. They know what to expect from hurricanes. Your measure of that is the 85+% who evacuated. What shocks and surprises us is two things: 1) how inadequate the levees turned out to be, and 2) how little responsibility the United States of America, the builder and designer of those levees, is willing to accept for its part in that inadequacy.

You’re wrong on almost every one of your points.

1. “At least once a year the pumps failed.” I’ll give you this one. I haven’t lived there year-round since 1985, so I couldn’t say whether the pumps failed while I was away or not.
2. “They have known since the 1940’s that a hurricane could potentially destroy the city and nothing was ever done about it.” Evidently you didn’t notice the levees that were built around the City, and that were improved during your stay there. I would hardly call those efforts “nothing.”
4. “It was a surprise to no one that Katrina devastated the city with flooding.” “Anyone claiming to be shocked either didn’t live there or was utterly removed from reality.” I was both shocked and surprised that the levees were so poorly designed and built. I expected the levees to be overtopped before they failed. Engineers can’t be blamed for conditions that exceed those for which they have designed. But, when levees are said to be designed for Category 3 conditions and fail under Category 1 stresses, we can say that the engineers failed. Very shoddy design and construction, that surprises me and every civil engineer I know, was the cause of the flooding.
5. “When it flooded once a year from a bad rainstorm, what did anyone think would be the end result from a hurricane?” Katrina did not flood New Orleans with rainfall. Perhaps you missed the television coverage. Levees failed and Lake Ponchartrain and the Gulf Of Mexico flooded New Orleans. Metairie was flooded by rainfall, but that was due to human error, not the failure of the pumps or of the levees. After the pumping resumed, Metairie was emptied quickly because the levees held, as it always has.

Yes – those are the moments when they are completely incompetent. I’m at a loss one some days to tell which is the worst – the things they intentionally screw up or the accidental ones.

I don’t think either of these guys is crooked. “Just following orders, sir!”

This is the top guy.
http://www.hqda.army.mil/daen/chief_of_engineers.html
LIEUTENANT GENERAL CARL A. STROCK
Chief of Engineers and Commanding General
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

If his testimony before Congress is any measure, he’s a doubletalking asscoverer just like the rest of them.
He’s retiring.
http://www.hq.usace.army.mil/cepa/pubs/sep06/story2.htm

This poor slob is in “charge” in New Orleans.
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/pao/whoweare/orgstruct1.asp
http://www.mvn.usace.army.mil/hps/pdf/Biography-COL%20Wagenaar%20%2007-05.pdf
Col. Richard P. Wagenaar, New Orleans District’s commander and district engineer

He took over about 5 minutes before Katrina hit and he had no idea of what to do or how. I pity him. His Army career was just screwed by poor timing.
He’s retiring, too.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/26/ap/national/mainD8M8E5J00.shtml

No damn wonder. Jeb Bush was a horrendous Governor in Florida and was known to have been involved with computer programmers in Winter Park to see if they could devise vote rigging software prior to the 2000 election. Just google it and see for yourself.

This is just another black mark on Jebbie’s dossier – he’s already got plenty of them and hell will freeze over before this guy is EVER elected to any office in this country ever again.

The Bush Crime Family has destroyed this country so there’s no need to destroy it further by having Jeb Bush in any office.

http://creoleneworleans.typepad.com/creole_folks/2007/03/mary_landrieu_o.html

Read here where they sold us defective pumps on purpose hoping to drown New Orleans for good to open-up the lands for oil drilling.

In a surprise move, Kurdish lawmakers have announced that they plan to oppose Iraq’s controversial US-backed oil law.

Back in February, the Kurds had agreed to support the draft law, which has been heavily criticised as giving too much control to foreign oil companies.

Oil Minister Hussain al-Shahristani had predicted the draft law would be approved by parliament in April, but it has yet to be debated.

Kurds hold 58 of the 275 parliament seats _ not enough to defeat the measure on their own. But Kurdish objections could delay passage of the bill, whose ratification has been strongly urged by the White House.

But Kurdish spokesman Khalid Saleh has said: “We are not going to support” the provisions in the bill. Some Sunni legislators have also raised now objections, saying the oil law would give foreign oil companies too much power.

So the draft oil law could be in for a tough time before it becomes law. They will be sweating in Houston.

http://www.priceofoil.org/

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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http://www.debunking911.com/
http://internetdetectives.biz/case/loose-change

http://www.sptimes.com/2002/05/22/news_pf/State/Primed_for_success.shtml

…can’t be AREN’T) IMPEACHED AND PROSECUTED…

…NO administration will EVER…

…be subject to same in the future…

…in the msm?