Betrayed
I've still been watching the coverage of Katrina's aftermath, what there is of it on the networks. Once again I'm glad and yet not that we don't have cable. I have been following online as well.
In the comments of my last post, mrtl asked me if I had seen this timeline. I had not. I was shocked when I read it, seeing just how early it should have been clear that there was a huge, huge disaster brewing. Governor Blanco is off of my list now. Well before Katrina's Louisiana landfall, on Friday and Saturday, she did what she needed to do to get federal help for her state. Mayor Nagin is not quite so high on my list anymore, as food apparently was provided for people in the Superdome, though only a three-day supply for 15,000 people (and 30,000 took refuge there). And it's still not clear to me why sufficient police/National Guard/whatever law enforcement was available was not sent there as well. There is no reason such horrors should have taken place there. And I am still unsure why these poor people weren't bused out of the city (I keep reading and hearing about hundreds of school buses that are now sitting in water).
I don't know what to say about the President. I feel completely betrayed. I could go into all kinds of reasons why I trusted him, naive as that may sound to some, but whatever...that trust is gone now. I don't really want to get any more political than I have already here, and I do think the first thing that needs to be done is to continue the aid to the victims. But there will be a time that accountability will come. And all I keep thinking is: if a president can be impeached over lying under oath about an affair, what can happen if a president and his administration can be shown to be responsible for what will almost certainly be thousands of deaths?
(And don't think I haven't heard about Barbara Bush's now-famous tactless comments. What was she THINKING??)
In the comments of my last post, mrtl asked me if I had seen this timeline. I had not. I was shocked when I read it, seeing just how early it should have been clear that there was a huge, huge disaster brewing. Governor Blanco is off of my list now. Well before Katrina's Louisiana landfall, on Friday and Saturday, she did what she needed to do to get federal help for her state. Mayor Nagin is not quite so high on my list anymore, as food apparently was provided for people in the Superdome, though only a three-day supply for 15,000 people (and 30,000 took refuge there). And it's still not clear to me why sufficient police/National Guard/whatever law enforcement was available was not sent there as well. There is no reason such horrors should have taken place there. And I am still unsure why these poor people weren't bused out of the city (I keep reading and hearing about hundreds of school buses that are now sitting in water).
I don't know what to say about the President. I feel completely betrayed. I could go into all kinds of reasons why I trusted him, naive as that may sound to some, but whatever...that trust is gone now. I don't really want to get any more political than I have already here, and I do think the first thing that needs to be done is to continue the aid to the victims. But there will be a time that accountability will come. And all I keep thinking is: if a president can be impeached over lying under oath about an affair, what can happen if a president and his administration can be shown to be responsible for what will almost certainly be thousands of deaths?
(And don't think I haven't heard about Barbara Bush's now-famous tactless comments. What was she THINKING??)
posted by Andrea | 9:05 PM
1 Comments:
Oh my goodness. Mrtl is right, its sickening. No other word for it. This whole thing could have been avoided for the residents. Take them out of the city and put them in a hotel when they cant afford it. Would have haved so many lives. They had plenty of warning. I know people who had the means LEFT before it hit. To those that didnt, they should have been taken care of.
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