Does George W Bush's inaction prior to Katrina, despite sufficient warning, warrant impeachment?

Answer 1

I WISH !!!!

Answer 2

Does anyone know about the little issue of the state government having to request the federal government's help before they can intervene? If so, it's not apparent to me. Why does everyone act as if Bush is responsible for everything that happens in this country. There was a bad hurricane and a lot of damage, and yet the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of Louisiana did nothing to speed up the evacuation process, or give more ample warning, so why not blame them? So to answer your question-no, absolutely not!

Answer 3

No, because it did not start at the federal government level.
Each states' government is responsible for coordinating there own disaster "plan", they can ask for the federal governments help, but that didn't happen here (Louisiana) right away.

Mayor Ray Nagen of New Orleans and Governor Blanco were offered help beyond Fema, almost immediately, and rejected it.
The National Guard was offered to them to stop the looting and that was even denied.

I hate to say it, but with all of the questionable politics here, the federal government was help off to try to protect the government here, instead of to protect the citizens. I am not a extremest when it comes to politics and I am a realist when the facts are presented to me, and what happened here last August could have been prevented up to 2 years before it happened. The State/City where presented with Fema and Army Corp of Engineers info regarding the levees lack of strength to handle predicted storms and did nothing with the info because the Federal Grant wasn't large enough. That coupled with City and State refusal to supply evacuation assistance caused the huge downfall of South Louisiana.

Answer 4

No

And what inaction? He was trying to get aid down to Louisiana but the governor down there never answered him back. The federal government cannot help in a natural disaster until the states themselves ask, that is federal law. He went so far as to declare it a national disaster before the hurricane even hit.

Notice you hear nothing about Boluxi or the other cities that were pounded by Katrina. They accepted aid and didn't have their police force run away.

Answer 5

No.

Bill Clinton was Impeached. Remember?


Katrina was an act of God, made worse by 40-year old bad engineering and the local authorities inability to act.

If any public official needs to be prosecuted, it's Louisiana Governer Kathleen Blanco.

Answer 6

1. President Bush declared Louisiana a disaster zone prior to the hurricane, and freed up 30 million dollars. This was the only time in U.S. history that a disaster zone was called before the disaster took place.

2. President Bush personally called up the Governor of Louisiana and asked her to call a mandatory evacuation. She had had no plans to do this until he called.

3. President Bush prelocated a military ship in the harbor, which weathered out the whole storm in New Orleans, which became the base of operations for thousands of helicoptor flights saving thousands of lives.

4. President Bush asked the Red Cross to preposition convoys of water, food and medicine just outside of the stormpath. The Red Cross did this. When they tried to enter New Orleans, Mayor Nagin told them to leave because he didn't want people to stay in the disaster zone.

You can look up any of these facts and see that President Bush did everything he could to lessen the impact of the disaster. Local and state officials fought against everything he tried to do because of their hatred of the man and their disbelief in the possibility of a disaster. You want to blame him and refuse to look up the facts shows that you are just as small and impotent as they are.

Answer 7

You're an Idiot. The president can be looked at only when the local mayor of New Orleans is behind bars along with the incompetent Governor of the state of LA. They, along with the multitudes of other local criminal politicians that failed them all on so many levels. There was plenty of warning (we were watching it for days), The president tried to get the Mayor of New Orleans to act, and had to actually make a personal call to the Mayor to get him off his ***. The governor of LA was the one who held the help back after the Levy's failed. Once the President realized the extent of the incompetence of that state and local government he stepped in. I just wish people would get off this topic. Its old and tired and people are going to believe what ever the hell they want to believe, and according to Al Gore its not going to be the first of such storms. So hang on to your hat.
We here in Florida see quite a few storms. We look to our local/state to help us should be need help. FEMA is for hard hit areas and go in at the discretion of the state/local governments. We have local FEMA people that are supposed to handle this coordination, and they do. So to us here in Florida it was obvious who the parties were that failed its citizens during Katrina, and it certainly wasn't George Bush.

Answer 8

I dont think the blame starts that high up. I think the fingers should be pointed at the govt of Louisianna. When the storm was coming FEMA was told to but out and that the state would take care of it, FEMA had a plan in place, which is their responsibility. Trust me, this is about the only time I will defend Bush

Answer 9

enable's get a minimum of a tenuous grip on truth, lets? in the first position, those dikes in New Orleans were a disaster waiting to take position for decades a minimum of. it quite is the fault of the state authorities of Louisiana, to boot because the lazy, shiftless, plantation mentality of the electorate of latest Orleans, who made little or no attempt over the years to even artwork up an pastime. this can be a city the position the bodies should be saved above floor; you would imagine levy protection may be uppermost in anybody's ideas. How is that Bush's fault? absolutely everyone who died in the course of Katrina dedicated suicide - except for those wellbeing facility sufferers who were given left in the back of even as their "caretakers" fled on the astounding minute and merely left them to drown. The inhabitants of the city of latest Orleans changed into warned about that typhoon 4 DAYS beforehand it ever hit. I actually have a buddy who says you should face and seem out over the water and actual see the element coming. No buses? i have not in any respect been to New Orleans, yet i'm really particular i ought to have were given properly out of how of that typhoon in 4 days if I had to stroll. yet they sat and stared on the walls and merely enable it hit them. it really is what the welfare mentality will do for you. How is that Bush's fault? Then we come to each and every of the looting that went on. the position were each and every of the police officials the mayor of latest Orleans had down in his budget, for which he amassed money from the state authorities? In his mind's eye, it really is the position. 0.5 of them not in any respect existed; wager the position that extra money went. So there have been not adequate police to take care of all of it, although the mayor not in any respect advised the Governor til it changed into too overdue. How is that Bush's fault? certain, Bush blended FEMA with position of foundation protection. there turned right into a conflict on, excellent the following at homestead, and FEMA is meant to respond to precisely the kind of emergency difficulty we had on and after 9/11. Is he meant to be psychic, ought to he have predicted the quantity of destruction Katrina may reason? Is it the pastime of the President of america to double examine the authorities of each and every state and city in this u . s . a . to make certain they are on the pastime Act-Of-God- emergency-smart? And absolutely everyone who says the reaction changed into sluggish because the persons in contact were undesirable blacks has been spending way too a lot time listening to Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton.

Answer 10

Come on now. The Louisiana folks (both State and Local) have been putting off these concerns for YEARS! As sad as the whole thing was, Nagin and his bunch are the ones who left buses sitting when the should've been evacuating...and much more!

Answer 11

So you want to give the President the power to evacuate entire cities, tell cities how they need to spend their budget, and declare marshal law whenever he sees fit?

When finger pointing starts, the $h1t rolls uphill and Harry S Truman said it best, "The buck stops here."
So go ahead and blame the President for everything it is the easiest thing for mindless lemmings to do.