KERRY-Knock Out Punch Re: New Katrina Documents

[kpete]

John Kerry just released the following statement — a knock out punch, in my opinion — on the release of documents proving that the administration was fully and accurately briefed on the risks Hurricane Katrina posed to the Gulf Coast:

“How is it that the White House Situation Room received detailed warnings 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina hit, that the National Hurricane Center was warning CNN and the world that Katrina could be The Big One, that FEMA reported two days before landfall that Katrina’s surge ‘could greatly overtop levees and protective systems,’ destroy nearly 90 percent of city structures, require ‘incredible search and rescue needs (60,000-plus),’ and displace more than a million people – and the President days later still insisted on national television, ‘I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees’ that left 1,300 dead and thousands more homeless?

“Where’s the accountability? Where’s the compassion?

more:
http://blog.thedemocraticdaily.com/?p=1734

[babylonsister]

1. Keep up the good work, Senator Kerry! nt

[RazzleDazzle]

26. I'd like to see more than words

Any ONE of these numerous scandals would have been enough to impeach Bush on. Glad to see Kerry step up to the plate, but we need IMPEACHMENT, and we need it now.

And before anyone tries to remind me (a) that the Dems don't control either half of Congress or (b) that Impeachment starts in the House, I will say this: IMPEACHMENT starts with people TALKING about it and taking a lot of steps to generate public awareness and support -- and to make the support for impeachment among the public that already exists common knowledge. Further, when there's this much duplicity, incompetence, and outright malfeasance in any given administration, even Republicans can be MADE to act -- by the people, of course.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. The ChimpInChief was busy out in CA getting his picture taken,

hopefully for use by Dems in the war against the extreme right wing this fall.

[central scrutinizer]

3. nice split screen photo

one side, a family clinging to a roof; other side, Bushco strumming his guitar at the fund raiser. Caption writes itself: Nero fiddles while Nawlins drowns.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. I hope his arrogance get played up BIGtime come November.

[karynnj]

11. Don't forget the cake with McCain - where was his disgust

that the day AFTER NO was flooded that Bush was having a photo op with him. He should be ashamed too. Where was his outrage. Kerry was in Iraq and was having his office and his PAC sending emails to solicit help.

[malaise]

4. Keep Katrina on the front page

Make them accountable. Good work JK.

[Nitrogenica]

5. Nice use of the word compassion

[AuntiBush]

7. Good Question, Senator Kerry.

You tell us and we'll both know.

Wait, it left us when the balance of power tilted all the way to the right. Republicans equate to passion for war profits and BIG corporations.

"We the people..." We're nada anymore.

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Here's the copy of the Aug 28th Advisory that I posted on DU that day

WWUS74 KLIX 282139
NPWLIX

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE
MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA...
...DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED...

MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER. AT
LEAST ONE HALF OF WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WILL HAVE ROOF AND WALL
FAILURE. ALL GABLED ROOFS WILL FAIL...LEAVING THOSE HOMES SEVERELY
DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.

THE MAJORITY OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WILL BECOME NON FUNCTIONAL.
PARTIAL TO COMPLETE WALL AND ROOF FAILURE IS EXPECTED. ALL WOOD
FRAMED LOW RISING APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL BE DESTROYED. CONCRETE
BLOCK LOW RISE APARTMENTS WILL SUSTAIN MAJOR DAMAGE...INCLUDING SOME
WALL AND ROOF FAILURE.

HIGH RISE OFFICE AND APARTMENT BUILDINGS WILL SWAY DANGEROUSLY...A
FEW TO THE POINT OF TOTAL COLLAPSE. ALL WINDOWS WILL BLOW OUT.

AIRBORNE DEBRIS WILL BE WIDESPREAD...AND MAY INCLUDE HEAVY ITEMS SUCH
AS HOUSEHOLD APPLIANCES AND EVEN LIGHT VEHICLES. SPORT UTILITY
VEHICLES AND LIGHT TRUCKS WILL BE MOVED. THE BLOWN DEBRIS WILL CREATE
ADDITIONAL DESTRUCTION. PERSONS...PETS...AND LIVESTOCK EXPOSED TO THE
WINDS WILL FACE CERTAIN DEATH IF STRUCK.

POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN
AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING
INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS.

THE VAST MAJORITY OF NATIVE TREES WILL BE SNAPPED OR UPROOTED. ONLY
THE HEARTIEST WILL REMAIN STANDING...BUT BE TOTALLY DEFOLIATED. FEW
CROPS WILL REMAIN. LIVESTOCK LEFT EXPOSED TO THE WINDS WILL BE
KILLED.

AN INLAND HURRICANE WIND WATCH IS ISSUED WHEN SUSTAINED WINDS NEAR
HURRICANE FORCE...OR FREQUENT GUSTS AT OR ABOVE HURRICANE FORCE...ARE
POSSIBLE WITHIN THE NEXT 24 TO 36 HOURS.

LAZ038-040-050-056>070-MSZ080>082-290300-
ASSUMPTION-HANCOCK-HARRISON-JACKSON-LIVINGSTON-LOWER JEFFERSON-
LOWER LAFOURCHE-LOWER PLAQUEMINES-LOWER ST. BERNARD-LOWER TERREBONNE-
ORLEANS-ST. CHARLES-ST. JAMES-ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST-ST. TAMMANY-
TANGIPAHOA-UPPER JEFFERSON-UPPER LAFOURCHE-UPPER PLAQUEMINES-
UPPER ST. BERNARD-UPPER TERREBONNE-
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT...

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM
FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL
PERSIST FOR THE NEXT 26 TO 28 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL
ONSET AROUND MIDNIGHT NEAR THE COAST AND BY 3 AM CLOSER TO THE NEW
ORLEANS METRO AREA AND PERSIST FOR 9 TO 15 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND GUSTS
AROUND 175 MPH ARE LIKELY IN THE WARNED AREA BY DAYBREAK MONDAY.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET!

$$

LAZ034>037-039-046>049-MSZ068>071-077-290300-
AMITE-ASCENSION-EAST BATON ROUGE-EAST FELICIANA-IBERVILLE-
PEARL RIVER-PIKE-POINTE COUPEE-ST. HELENA-WALTHALL-WASHINGTON-
WEST BATON ROUGE-WEST FELICIANA-WILKINSON-
413 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005

...INLAND HURRICANE WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT...

HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE AREA. TROPICAL STORM
FORCE WINDS ARE CURRENTLY MOVING INTO THE COASTAL MARSHES AND WILL
SREAD NORTHWESTWARD INTO THE GREATER BATON ROUGE AREA AND
SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI LATER THIS EVENING. TROPICAL STORM FORCE
WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO ONSET AROUND 9 PM TONIGHT AND PERSIST
FOR 22 TO 26 HOURS. HURRICANE FORCE WINDS WILL ONSET AROUND
DAYBREAK AND PERSIST FOR ABOUT 5 TO 10 HOURS. MAXIMUM WIND
GUSTS OF 80 TO 90 MPH ARE POSSIBLE IN EAST-CENTRAL LOUISIANA
AND SOUTHWEST MISSISSIPPI.

DO NOT VENTURE OUTDOORS ONCE TROPICAL STORM FORCE WINDS ONSET


http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/raw/ww/wwus74.klix.npw...


God help those poor people trapped in the Superdome and everyone else who got left behind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4490806


And here's Stephanie's thread for a timeline of events:

NEVER FORGET: George Bush's Priorities Since Sunday ---PIX->>>

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4532046

[Faygo Kid]

13. Thanks. A chilling reminder. I remember watching it approach.

Thank God our president was on top of the situation that day.

[Inland]

9. You know the real scandal?

Not that nothing was done with this info. It's that the WH lied about having it, for the sole purpose of forestalling any argument that they could have done better.

With Bush, after every boo-boo they scrub the files. Months later, or years later in the case of 9/11, we find out what they knew and when they knew it. Disgusting. If they put half as much energy in doing something.....

[kerrygoddess]

10. Qucik posting KPete!

Thanks - You beat me to posting it here and made me change my headline! Awesome statement from JK! Loved every damn bit of it!!!!

[loudsue]

12. That was the VERY SAME thing bush said about 9/11...."who could have

known??" And we find out later that SIX foreign government's intelligence agencies had notified them about eminent 9/11 attacks.

Somebody needs to make a political ad out of the two situations: One with him saying he didn't know about Katrina, then showing the e-mail. Another showing him saying we couldn't have expected 9/11, and then showing the PDB memo.

The two are very closely tied. They knew. They did NOTHING! Thousands of Americans died.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Lorien]

21. Exactly. The parallels can't be ignored

I really hope that a politician somewhere has the spine to bring this point up!

[xchrom]

14. bushco had practise.

9-11 prepared them for how to ignore anything.

[Dark]

15. It'd be nice if he'd shown this amount of passion before the Nov elections

[oasis]

16. Then you would have voted for him?

:shrug:

[kerrygoddess]

19. He did actually. N/T

[LittleClarkie]

22. Whether folks dispute that or not, how does it help us now?

Woulda, shoulda, coulda.

We can't change the past, can we.

Nevertheless, he was kinda fun when he was pissed, actually. Right after the RNC Convention was one time. He was pretty spiffy at the first debate as well. But I remember reading in Newsweek (or somewhere... damn my memory) that Shrum and Cahill told an aide to "restrain the candidate" when Kerry was about to give a speech to the VFW and wanted to mention the swiftboat liars. He was quite pissed. But Cahill and Shrum were afraid he'd come off sounding bitter. Hence, "Restrain the candidate!"

No, DON'T restrain the candidate. The candidate is a wonder to behold when he's angry.



I don't think the media like to show it much though. Often they'd show you Bush, but only tell you about Kerry. Filtered through their perspective, it was just the same old thing to them. Jaded bastards.

[burythehatchet]

17. boooosh ....compassion ....boooosh ....compassion

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:
:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

He's a freaking psychopath!

[C_U_L8R]

18. Where's the compassion????

How about.. Where are the indictments ????

[jenndar]

20. Thanks for posting that! Go, Kerry! n/t

[autorank]

23. Kerry's rokken!!! It's time and it's the real thing. This is very simple

Why didn't we know?

They knew?

They're guilty.

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[DanCa]

24. Go Kerry Go......

I'll never know why people didn't want to vote for this great man..

[PegDAC]

30. People did!!

Say it loud! VOTING MACHINE FRAUD!!

:mad: :puke: :grr:

[kerrygoddess]

33. Yes they did! N/T

[calmblueocean]

25. I blame the media.

Katrina is one dozens of detailed, well-documented examples of the Bush administration's gross incompetence and corruption. Whether it's the Medicare corporate giveaway or their purposeful misleading to get us into Iraq, the news media, when confronted face-to-face with true corruption, has bowed its head. They're terrified of alienating the psychopathic mouthbreathers who voted for Bush, terrified of being called partisan, terrified of being labeled unpatriotic. So they pretend that the monstrous reign of crime that is the Bush administration is just business as usual.

The rest of the country, seeing that the news media isn't telling them Bush is a criminal, assumes he must not be. And so the crime spree continues...

[petepillow]

27. “Where’s the accountability?" THERE IS NONE AND NEVER HAS BEEN ANY

Dem talking point anybody? This needs to be the theme that gets pounded into the public's heads. AN ADMINISTRATION WITH NO ACCOUNTABILITY CAN'T BE TRUSTED.

Anyone?
Anyone?
Beuller?

[smoogatz]

28. Knockout punch?

You're kidding, right? Bushco will continue sto stonewall, muddy the waters, lie, blame others and change the subject. As long as there's a Republican majority in Congress, they're accountable to no one.

[spanone]

29. There is no accountability among LIARS AND THIEVES.

Will the American people EVER have thier fill of this shit????????????????????????????????????????????????????

[pitohui]

31. thanks and i agree

however i would like more than just a statement, i would like to see indictments or impeachment\

how many times does a dude get to read the goat story while rome is burning before it is acknowledged that he is incompetent and should be removed from office for cause?

[madmark]

32. they got warnings on the al quada attack on 9/11; did nothing and

not only was there no accountability; they got rewarded with reelection; why would anyone that anything would be different with the Katrina warning and subsequent nonresponse.

[BlueEyedSon]

34. Where is the tiniest shred of competence?

:rofl: