The emperor has no clothes.

Why were there no troops moving toward the Gulf Coast as soon as those levees broke? We have units in this nation that could have been moving within hours of a call from the president.

Did we not foresee the disaster that would occur if one of those levees broke? Actually, I remember seeing a documentary on just that subject about a year ago. “Water would be 10 meters deep in the city,” it was said.

Did we not just watch civil society break down as people looted Baghdad? We didn’t do anything to stop them there, and we should have learned from that blunder.

Shouldn’t we have been better prepared for this after spending billions on homeland security?

Are people actually going to say the president didn’t know, or that the local authorities should have handled it? Is anyone going to suggest that it wasn’t his fault that troops weren’t dispatched, even though he is the commander-in-chief?

I was never a fan of George Bush. The only thing he ever did right was go into Afghanistan when the Taliban wouldn’t give up Osama bin Laden. Saddam wasn’t a threat to us or our allies, and he was no worse than several dozen other dictators out there right now.

Lowering the pollution standards won’t make the air cleaner, and cutting taxes on the wealthiest Americans isn’t going to make life easier for anyone but the wealthiest Americans.

Kirk Leadbetter, Turner

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