Witness how F*cked Up America Really Is - Hurricane Katrina Doc.

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Originally Posted by PigSnout

These two sentences are awesome.
First off, I smoke and I love this country and you damn sure don't speak for me.
Second most Americans knew about race, class, and government long before Katrina. Maybe you are speaking about people who are in comas or live in caves.

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First off, to PS and those who feel like him - calm down. Nobody questioned your love for this country. But you're right, I apologize. I guess some people don't mind being considered a criminal by America because they indulge in weed. Silly me....


Yeah, Americans are known for their in-depth knowledge of current and historical events. :stoned: Delude me some more, PigSnout. It's great for my high.

And while we're on the topic of patriotism and all that, I find it hilarious that people start off by saying how much they love their country, yet their fellow citizens were at fault because they were told to evacuate. I wish I could find it as funny that some people think the only reason people are so focused on Katrina is because it could be construed as a race issue. Are you kidding me??

I personally believe that the gov't failed to respond because these were poor communities. Everyone gets caught up in New Orleans cuz the levees broke there. But people all over the gulf coast, in Louisiana and Mississippi, were affected by the storm, needed gov't assistance, and were left to rot. Their homes and communities have not been rebuilt either. When I look at the victims of Katrina I see all kinds of faces, not just black ones, so what the fuck are ya'll talking bout?

In general though, what does it really matter? I don't care if they were white, black, brown, yellow....fuck, green people. I don't care if they were rich, poor, educated or not. All I know is that day after day after day, I had to watch my fellow Americans dying on American soil while our gov't did nothing. I guess all you America-lovers weren't really affected by that.

GreatSpirit may be off but he did say one smart thing - "the handeling of Katrina doesn't make for good propaganda either." Even if you don't care about people dying, do you care about ur precious nation's image? Cuz it seems to me that a country that can't (or won't) even take care of its own, is not a country to fear. How can we ever win "the war on terror" when we show time and time again that we are inadequate at even protecting ourselves or adequately running our govt?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 27 (UPI) -- The ousted head of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency says the White House wanted him to lie about the response to Hurricane Katrina.






Former Director Michael Brown told ABC News' "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" Sunday he stood by comments in a Playboy interview, and President Bush wanted him to take the heat for the bungling.

"The lie was that we were ready and that everything was working as a team. Behind the scenes, it wasn't working at all," Brown said. "There were political considerations going into all the discussions. There was the fact that New Orleans did not evacuate and the mayor (Ray Nagin) had no plan."

Brown said it was natural to "want to put the spin on that things are working the way they're supposed to do. And behind the scenes, they're not. Again, my biggest mistake was just not leveling with the American public and saying, 'Folks, this isn't working.'"

The former FEMA chief cited what he called an e-mail "from a very high source in the White House that says the president at a Cabinet meeting said, 'Thank goodness Brown's taking all the heat because it's better that he takes the heat than I do.'"

Also on "This Week," U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., said the administration still doesn't understand the magnitude of the reconstruction problem; but the president's Gulf Coast coordinator, Don Powell, said the federal government's No. 1 priority is to rebuild the area in a businesslike way.

Copyright 2006 by United Press International

We can go to war with a country at a moment's notice, but we can't help our own people that efficiently? Something's wrong with that. And like a former president once had on his desk: the buck stops here. The president should have done much more to help in Louisiana, whether it meant dispersing 10,000 National Guard troops or whatever. They could have done that before the hurricane even hit land, as there was enough warning time to mobilize and deploy. I do hold the president responsible, and if he were running for president again (if he could), I wouldn't vote for him for that reason alone. He's too insanely fixated on Iraq, always has been, to the detriment of his fellow citizens.

Bush, Brown, Blanco, and Nagin all should be equally held accountable. They had days to plan ahead, and Brown should've told us the truth a year earlier. I saw him on NBC today getting interviewed, and what he stated was he was painting an optismistic picture with the White House talking points. I have no doubt that is quite true, he tried to save his own ass and cover Bush's as well.

I have no idea why New Orleans re-elected Nagin. That's just crazy.