Why hasn't anyone blamed President Bush for the Indonesian deaths?

Question

Seems like he gets blamed for everything else. Isn't this also his fault?

Answer 1

Bush shouldn't blamed for natural disasters. As much as I dislike our current President, I would never blame him for tsunamis or earthquakes and I never blamed him for Hurricane Katrina. Those are natural events, under no mortal's control.

What I DO blame Bush and his FEMA for, is their RESPONSE to those natural disasters. As bad as Katrina was for the whole Gulf of Mexico area (which includes Mississippi, and Alabama as WELL as Louisiana, BTW), it was Bush's FEMA which completely dropped the ball in doing its job.
I have as much accusation for the state and city government of Louisiana, but once the area became a National Disaster Area, it became a Federal responsibility, and FEMA blew it. The Gulf States are part of the UNITED STATES and therefore its citizens should have been protected and rescued to the extent possible.

I know people there refused to leave before the hurricane; I dont advocate going and FORCING evacuations (I dont even advocate living in areas where the only thing between you and the ocean is a dirt levee; sorta like those clowns who live in trailers in Tornada Alley; I mean, why is ANY of this a surprise?), and I dont blame Bush or FEMA for old people who are reluctant to uproot themselves for something they never HAD to leave for, in the past. I dont blame the government for the fact a hurricane hit the US along a predicted path. I dont blame them for the fact they slashed the budget for strengthening and maintaining those levees to help pay for Bush's unecessary tax cuts. The levees have stood for 50 years, why should they fail now? Fair enough.

What I DO blame President Bush for:
FEMA makig refugees live in squalid overcrowded stadiums, people having to deal with corpses and crackheads while FEMA was trying to figure out what to do with them all;
LA homes which are condemned due to mold infestation and rot due to delays by a clearly in-over-their-head FEMA leadership, homes which are STILL standing in 2 feet of rancid water;
Wasting $5 Billion in taxpayer money for modular homes sitting on skids unused while refugees are handed free $2,000 debit cards and chilling out on docked cruise ships, or given the money and scatterted all accross the country, to make i t impossible to track down the ones who inevitably defrauded the Govt, all courtesy of our socialist, OOOPS, I mean Republican government;
Barbara Bush thinking living in the Houston Astrodome with 40 toilets for 8,000 people is ok, since it's better than what they are used to;
Just the whole amatuerish way this disaster was handled. Again, this is AMERICA, we are supposed to be the example for the rest of the world. We should be PAST dealing with disasters as ineptly as this one was handled.
Bruce Willis has a great line in an otherwise stupid movie, "Armageddon", where he's talking to Billy Bob Thorton about NASA/s plant to blow up the killer asteroid. He says words to the effect of, "And THAT'S your plan? Whats you back up plan? Dont you have guys just thinking s*** up all day and more guys behind them, backing them up? This is the US Government we're talking about here, and this is the best you can come up with?"

I feel the same way, Bruce. Why dont we have plans for EVERY contingency, already figured out and put down on paper? When Event A happens, you immediately do B, then C, then D. If B is unavailable then move directly to E, etc? I'm not saying we need a plan for when a cloud of locusts descends on Boston Common and starts performing Shakespeare in the Park, but we're KNOW we have a lot of poorer people living in LA, we KNOW we have oil refineries and oil rigs in the Gulf, we KNOW it's an area which gets hit hard by hurricanes and we KNOW the levees protecting most of Louisiana are old and wouldnt stand up to anything stronger than a sustained category 3 hurricane. So why didnt we have plans for WHEN (not if) a Cat 5 Hurricane utterly destroys the levees and floods out the state? This eventually HAD to happen, just as tornados in Oklahoma will home in on trailer parks, so the US and FEMA should have had a plan for this eventuality. Hell, for all we know they DO have aplan, they just didnt know what the plan or where to find it or something I dunno. All I know is, this government has wasted more money than the WORST Democrat President EVER has, between this and the crap Halliburton is pulling in Iraq. $5 Billion for Katrina Aid and people STILL arent back in their condemned homes after 16 months. But thank God they arent still living in berthed cruise liners at $200 a night.

Answer 2

It has been overlooked, The Libby D's will get around to blaming him sooner or later. Probably 3 days before election day 2008 they will release a media bomb proving that Bush was responsible for not only these deaths, but JFK's sell out at the bay of pigs invasion, Jimmy Carter's sellout of the Vietnam Vets by pardoning the draft dodgers, Bill Clinton's affair with Monica, LBJ's role in the Kennedy Assassination cover up, Sirhan Sirhan shooting Robert Kennedy and anything else they can manufacture.

Answer 3

After Katrina thousands of Indonesian Muslims danced and said it was "Katrina a sister of Islam" Punishing the great Satan. We just send aid. In a few Months after eating our food they will go back to hating us.
Bert AHHHH, So when the Federal government sent Millions to NO in the 80's for fixing the levies and they spent it on building that stadium it is what GW's fault? You see when the Feds send Money there is sometimes NO guarantee's that the Money winds up where it belongs! something about states rights as I recall. The levies held for days after Katrina if we recall. The Mayor and State government did little to move people. The Mayor could not use the School buses because they are under the Schools Chancellor. The Governor refused to allow the trains down into NO. As we Say in the Army "Most plans never get past first contact" You can spend Billions on plans that are useless in a few years as people build crap closer to the ocean and rivers and below sea level. If this was Cuba they would most likely just Raze NO and move it to Higher ground, it should have never been there in the first place. But since this is America they will choose to stay in that dump and it is not and should not be the governments job to wet nurse everyone that wants to Bungee jump in front of moving trains.

Answer 4

Because President Bush isn't at fault for the Indonesian deaths, so there is no need to point fingers at him for it. He has other things he is guilty of and that's what is pointed out! It's a rotten shame that he has so much to be guilty of that people want to add things that he is not guilty of to the list!

Answer 5

Does a question like this really make you feel better about the righteous hell Bush is receiving for the disaster he's inflicted on this country? I guess the people still without homes in New Orleans and the guys coming home without body parts from Iraq should just slap their thighs and say - oh, right, bush isn't to blame for the tsunami. now everything is all better...

You are one poor excuse for a citizen, aren't you?

Answer 6

You're right he did nothing to stop the tsunamais or the hurricanes. Self serving bastard. How did this guy ever get elected? Twice?! Americans are so stupid!?

Answer 7

because the dems already got what the wanted by villifying bush after they went on record supporting iraq initially..the liberal power grab of 06 they dont need to do it again, as it already reinstalled them in office.....now its time to install the tax and spend. pelosi declared with the forced sick leave. john edwards followed monday with the taxed socialization of health care...the rest will be soon. liberals need to wake up or god help us all.

Answer 8

Probably because no one brought the subject up until you. Typical trolling tactics.

Answer 9

No reason to point out WHERE he caused them, He has caused Thousands of deaths ALL OVER. He is just as much a cold blooded killer as Hussein was.

Answer 10

No one's found an obscure way to link it to him yet. Give them some time, they're trying.