| Thursday, September 15, 2005 |
| What did you elect him for, again? |
Media Matters points out the obious question (but apparently not obvious enough to be a major media story): Four years after 9/11, are we ready for a major terror attack, let alone another natural disaster? And if we're not, then name one good reason for reelecting George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, who ran for reelection on the issue of national security...
From the president's press availability (at which he secured the reversal of our boy in Baghdad, the supposed president of an independent Iraq, Jalal Talibani, on the issue of U.S. troops on our ... er ... their ... soil):
REPORTER: Mr. President, given what happened with Katrina, shouldn't Americans be concerned if their government isn't prepared to respond to another disaster or even a terrorist attack?"
BUSH: Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government. And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility. I want to know what went right and what went wrong. I want to know how to better cooperate with state and local government, to be able to answer that very question that you asked: Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack or another severe storm? And that's a very important question. And it's in our national interest that we find out exactly what went on and -- so that we can better respond. By the way, Media Matters has been all over the "2,000 unused buses" canard being thrown around both by the right and by "responsible" journalists like George Stephanopoulos and Wolf Blitzer...
Tags: bush, Politics, Katrina, News, hurricane, Government, war on terror, terrorism |
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