Guest G and other Bush apologists (far be it from me to injure your tender sensibilities by calling you Bushites)--

Opening 2 paragraphs of top story in today's Wall St. Journal (6 Sept 2005):

"Just two weeks ago, five state emergency managers brought a tough message to a meeting in Washington with Homeland Security Michael Chernoff and his top deputies."

"We told them straight out that they were weakening emergency management with potentially disastrous consequences," says Dave Liebersbach, the director of Alaska's Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The department's focus on terrorism was undermining its readiness for other catastrophes, said the visiting officials, who included emergency managers from Mississippi and Alabama."

I don't expect they wanted to be prophets.



I have a lot more to say, but no time now.