In the Sept. 11 Sun Journal, there is a good timetable of what the president had tried to accomplish to get people out of the path of Katrina, and some of the problems associated with that effort. In the Sept. 4 edition, there was an article by Howell Raines claiming that the president showed a lack of concern and care and did nothing to help.

There has been a great outcry of blame on the president for anything and everything that has not gone “right.”

I wish to point out that George W. Bush did not make the hurricane. He did not tell other persons in charge not to do anything to help. He did not fly the planes into the World Trade Center, nor did he direct that operation. We should get off that theme and try to help, not just criticize.

None of the detractors has apparently ever offered any suggestions to help.

As for the people that demonstrated against the Blue Angels at the Brunswick Naval Air Station, I understand their feelings, but they must have their heads in the sand. We have a standing military to ward off attacks from hostile elements, and to try to keep these same people from being bombed. Would they rather just give up to other foreign threats, and actions of megalomaniacs?

Not me.

Hap Gallin, West Sumner