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President George W. Bush has consistently maintained that there is
a link between the events of September 11, 2001 and the dictatorship of
Saddam Hussein, contrary to all available evidence. This has been the
consistent White House fallback position since the failure to find
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the invasion. And now that
Hurricane Katrina has devastated the Gulf Coast and in particular New
Orleans, Bush is making a political though not causal connection between
the destruction caused by four human-hijacked airliners and an act of
nature. The usual liberal Democratic response is to strongly deny all
such associations. This is a massive mistake, for undeniably there is a
strong correlation between all three events. That statistical link is the
incompetence of George W. Bush.
Bush was given an intelligence briefing in August of 2001 which
clearly outlined the possibility and immanence of terrorists flying
airliners into tall buildings in a major American metropolis. He ignored
this warning in favor of clearing brush down on the ranch. He was advised
that no WMD's were likely to be found in Iraq, and that the program which
would have led to their development had been severely curtailed if not
abandoned within a few years of the first Gulf War. The invasion was
launched in spite of these truths, and thousands dead and billions
squandered are the result. And when he was warned of the possibility of a
catastrophic weather event striking the New Orleans area, he nonetheless
led the fight to reduce funding for the
strengthening of dikes and levees. Even when the hurricane had already
struck and flooding began, his response was lackadaisical at best. More
death. More national treasure of all varieties lost.
In the business world of which George Bush is so proud to be not only
a member but its chief lobbyist and benefactor as well, such a level of
incompetence almost always leads to a very quick firing. Business has
always been very harsh on failures. Someone who has failed so abysmally
in the business of government should fare no better.
