littlestar

many of you know i've been avoiding the news since bush started his second term.

but after hearing about katrina and bush's foibles so many times, and with rita fast approaching texas, i thought i'd brush up on katrina and the course of events surrounding it.

the actions bush took and didn't take are quite appalling. and FEMA's actions just don't seem to make sense at all. what were they waiting for? but bush's blatant lack of value in people's lives really digusts me. and i wonder... how does it work where clinton gets threatened with impeachment for indiscretions in his personal life, but there is nary a word about bush's flagrant deceit and lack of judgment and responsibility?

i feel like it's high time for reasonable adults to speak up and contest bush's incompetence and manipulations. but instead.... we have people protesting for unrealistic degrees of peace. we can't pull out of iraq immediately, demanding that will just make people stop listening. some measures must be taken before we can leave. but the alternative (the not having a plan that bush and his administration seems to espouse) is unfeasible as well.

what we need is an intelligent plan of getting out. we need to refocus our attentions to actually making things better at home, such that disasters such as the handling of katrina can be avoided. we need to funnel money to develop programs in the country, not squandering it and lives outside.

the feeling i get now is that the bush administration is trying to keep the situation in iraq (among other things) quiet and out of the news, and just preparing to hand off the icky situation to the next administration to take the fall.