Originally published September 23 2005
Bush should be impeached for ignoring warnings of American tragedies, columnist says
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Dr. Paul Craig Roberts says Bush's focus is supposedly a war in the Middle East to protect America from terrorism and to ensure America’s oil supply in a lewrockwell.com article, but he has failed in both regards and should be impeached for ignoring warnings of New Orleans' vulnerability to flooding.
The raison d'ętre of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East in order to protect America from terrorism and to insure America's oil supply.
Bush's single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history.
The US has lost its largest and most strategic port, thousands of lives, and 80% of one of America's most historic cities is under water.
Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project (SELA) in order to protect the strategic port, the refineries, and the large population.
During 2004 and 2005 the New Orleans Times-Picayune published nine articles citing New Orleans' loss of hurricane protection to the war in Iraq.
Every expert and newspapers as distant as Texas saw the New Orleans catastrophe coming.
But President Bush and his insane government preferred war in Iraq to protecting Americans at home.
Bush's war left the Corps of Engineers only 20% of the funding to protect New Orleans from flooding from Lake Pontchartrain.
Despite the dire warnings delivered by the 2004 hurricane season, the Bush administration made deep budget cuts for flood control and hurricane funding for New Orleans.
This is the slowest emergency response by the US government in modern times.
By the time the Bush administration could organize any resources for New Orleans, many more people had died and the city was in total chaos.
The destruction of New Orleans is the responsibility of the most incompetent government in American history and perhaps in all history.
Bush's pointless war has left Washington so pressed for money that the federal government abandoned New Orleans to catastrophe.
Because Bush started a gratuitous war egged on by a claque of crazy neoconservatives who have sacrificed America's interests to their insane agenda.
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