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Hurricane Rita
Okay, Sept. 11 the federal government didn't see coming. Despite the internal FBI memos, the cash paid for one-way tickets, and the news now about an FBI operation that had particularly identified Mohammed Atta as a very dangerous guy, but because he was on some other list as an AMERICAN CITIZEN (!), the FBI decided they couldn't keep an eye on him and disbanded that operation -- despite all this, okay, they didn't see it coming.
Now, Hurricane Katrina they saw coming, but they didn't know how serious it was going to be. Despite pleas from the governor and warnings from engineers about the levees before the storm hit, despite news footage and more pleas from the governor and the mayor while the flooding was happening, well, it took awhile for the federal government to really understand how serious it was.
But Rita, they saw coming, and they knew how serious it was going to be, and after the humiliation of standing around with their thumbs up their butts watching New Orleans drown, they promised all forces would be mobilized to fight this one. And what do we get? Motorists running out of gas on snarled highways, huge long lines at airports because the security screeners have all evacuated -- and this in the president's beloved Houston, where you'd better believe all that the federal government knows how to do is being done! Yes, sir, four years after Sept. 11, the USA sure has learned how to respond to a crisis!
Gives you a warm, comforting sense of security, doesn't it?
Now, Hurricane Katrina they saw coming, but they didn't know how serious it was going to be. Despite pleas from the governor and warnings from engineers about the levees before the storm hit, despite news footage and more pleas from the governor and the mayor while the flooding was happening, well, it took awhile for the federal government to really understand how serious it was.
But Rita, they saw coming, and they knew how serious it was going to be, and after the humiliation of standing around with their thumbs up their butts watching New Orleans drown, they promised all forces would be mobilized to fight this one. And what do we get? Motorists running out of gas on snarled highways, huge long lines at airports because the security screeners have all evacuated -- and this in the president's beloved Houston, where you'd better believe all that the federal government knows how to do is being done! Yes, sir, four years after Sept. 11, the USA sure has learned how to respond to a crisis!
Gives you a warm, comforting sense of security, doesn't it?
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