KB5252
Repeat Forward Progress Victim
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Ill agree that my hate for him may skew my view of certain things. You know it would have been nice if he wouldn't have waited over 400 days to order a full blown out investigation of the 911 crimes. again another fail by him. I guess the thing that just frustrates me so much is that he was never called out on these things other than the press.We were in a time where because of the war on terror it wasn't considered PC to Really question this man's decisions. Obama's has gotten second guessed more in 6 months than bush did in his whole first term. Maybe it's because obamas changing domestic policies and not foreign policies either way i feel like he should have to answer for some of the bad decisions he made especially katrina and the weapons of mass destruction. He wasn't a king, he was an elected official whose salary was paid by us. I want some accountability. I do respect your opinion by the way.
To the first part in bold- this isn't true in any sense, he was second guessed from day one. After that open season on Bush was declared by the left and the media was complicit.
At best Bush can be held accountable in two ways on Katrina.1) The federal government was unprepared to deal with the amount of people that needed to be rescued. 2) For believing the inept and often times corrupt government in New Orleans was capable in any way of evacuating and taking care of it's people.
I would also put blame on the idiots that stayed despite being warned the storm was the perfect combination of circumstances to develop a surge that would overtake the city. Many either chose to stay or had no way out because the local government did not utilize the resources available to get them out.
After the many failures at the local level the federal government was caught even more off guard by the sheer number of people needing immediate assistance.
Faulty intelligence was the reason war on Iraq was even possible. Maybe Bush and others at high level positions were not convinced they possessed these weapons at the time they went to war, I simply don't know. The simple fact is there was at least some believable intel (at that time anyway) that led the Bush administration and many others to believe Sadaam had stockpiles. If the goal is to make sure we never go into war based on faulty intelligence then I am all for it. So far the investigations into the matter are less about fixing the problem and more about going after Bush, the wrong approach IMO.