Ex aides: Bush broke bonds during Katrina.

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#1 Travo_basic
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http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-general/20081230/Bush.Advisers.Speak.Out/

That sounds about right, The time when things really began to go downhill for Bush.

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You know Travo, I was never a Bush fan. But Katrina was probably the saddest moment as an American of my life. 9/11 was horrible, but it was an attack. Katrina was a weather event that was mishandled by every single branch of government involved. One of my largest customers here in Little Rock, AR is a nationally known water company. I called the CEO, a good friend of mine, and said we needed to do something. So we loaded 4 skids of water into 4 pick-ups, 2 went to Mississippi, 2 to Louisiana. We drove until we couldn't go any farther, maybe 2 hours away from NO. and there were hundreds of others doing the same thing, at the time the people were still stuck in the Superdome. It's sad when regular joe's can go and have more of an effect than the US Government.
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#3 joker_cards
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yeah Katrina was horrible. I live a little over an hour from the superdome. We didn't get half the damage NO did, but it took about 4-5 days for us to get water and MREs. and a week to get power. The GVT was so slow to react to help anybody. Same thing happen this year with Hurricane Gustav. Granted the damage wasn't a fraction of Katrina, but we were without power for almost a week and didn't get supplies for over 5 days, due to some BS with the GVT. Supposedly somebody high up in out Parish (in LA our counties are called Parishes), didn't sign some fourm for us to recieve supplies.
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Brian you are exactly right. After Katrina, the Bush administration could do nothing right. Makes you wonder how differently this country would feel about him if the Govt. acted more swiftly during that crisis/
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#5 joker_cards
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Brian you are exactly right. After Katrina, the Bush administration could do nothing right. Makes you wonder how differently this country would feel about him if the Govt. acted more swiftly during that crisis/ Travo_basic

It wasn't just the Bush Administration. it was the LA GVT too. Local and state as well as the people. Thats right, I said the people too. For years here, everytime we had a hurricane coming they would tell everybody pack up and leave this is the big one. So people would pack up everything and leave only to have it miss us. After awhile people got sick of it and would stay. Luck would always be on our side it seemed. Katrina was headed our way and everybody was taking it lightly. Then they all wanted to start leaving the day before it hit and some didn't even leave then. Our Governor at the time Kathleen Blanco was also clueless as can be.

For Gustav though, things went very very well. The buses had everybody gone that needed to leave. They were on the ball for that part this time.

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