I think its ridiculous to place blame for "how things were handled" on Bush, he is one man.... I'm not a Bush fan by any means, but lets keep realistic here...
I don't think the statement can be made that Nagin & Blanco needed to "work out their differences" because they were both very much insistent on evacuation of the city & getting those levees repaired & trying to get help to the people who were in trouble.
As far as that "lack of ordered evacuation" --They did order evacuation of the city, and the people who could comply, did. Some people (like 2 good friends of mine) could not, because their car was in the shop & the time frame was certainly not long enough for them to plan pack & vacate.
Quote:
Committee Chairman Tom Davis, R-Va., cautioned against too narrowly assigning blame.
"At the end of the day, I suspect that we'll find that government at all levels failed the people of Louisiana and Mississippi and Alabama and the Gulf Coast," said Davis.
|
That's a good quote, right there. A situation like this isn't something where the finger can be pointed at one singular level of government, or even during one time frame. If we wanted to get really nitpicky, we could start blaming the government levels that even let New Orleans be built in the first place, knowing it was in amazingly high risk for flooding.