The headline read: "Direct hit in New Orleans could mean a modern Atlantis." The first paragraph of the story read: "More than 1.2 million people in New Orleans were warned to get out Tuesday as the 140-mph hurricane churned toward the gulf coast, threatening to submerge this below-sea-level city in what could be the most disastrous storm to hit in nearly 40 years." That was USA Today and the only catch was -- the piece had been written on September 14, 2004 as huricane Ivan seemed to be barrelling toward New Orleans.
This was referred to as the "Atlantis Scenario". Now you've got Bush coming out and saying they couldn't have expected this to happen. If that is the case we are truly being governed by idiots or evildoers.
The war in Iraq is finally showing what I knew we were giving up to fund this war, conflict, game or whatever they want to call it. You can't give tax cuts and finance a war without taking the money from somewhere. Infrastructure, health benefits, veterans benefits, environmental programs, etc., etc. It's instances like this storm that will teach a lesson, hopefully not too late.
The lesson being that you can't underfund something like the shoring up of these levees in hopes that the perfect storm will not come. Because as we now see the old adage 'an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure' becomes glaringly apparent. Whatever it may cost to fix this problem will be tenfold more than what it would have cost to prevent it. And we still have to wait to see what it cost in lives.
If this guy stays in office for the balance of his term he is going to have so much blood on his hands his legacy will probably be known as "THE VAMPIRE PRESIDENCY".
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