From Mediacorps News

In June 2004, southern Louisiana’s emergency management chief Walter Maestri told the local Time Picayune newspaper that federal funds appeared to have been diverted instead of paying for repairs the state’s dykes, designed to protect the low-lying region from flooding.

“Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us,” he wrote at the time.

“It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay.”

Wow - I’ve been coming across dozens of things like this in the past week, partly from research, partly from your emails. And it’s outrageous. FEMA reports, articles in scientific journals and mainstream publications, interviews… it’s simply unbelievable. It seems that as far back as 2001, people in the bayou and around the coutry were already making their voices heard about the disaster preparedness in New Orleans just so in case something happened, they could blame the President.

Yes, that’s right, as early as the first Bush budget, there were people preparing to set the President up. Looking forward to the blame game, no doubt, should something terrible happen. A secret liberal-funded program of covert “public warnings” and “widely-circulated scientific reports” and “vociferous protests” was organized under the radar, ensuring that those documents would be sitting there in the archives like time bombs, waiting for the moment that something went wrong…

The saddest thing is that the American people are falling for it, and they’re starting to blame the President for his Iraq War and tax cuts and attendant budget cuts, the things that the vast left-wing conpiracy now claims kept us from spending the necessary funds to prepare for Katrina. In other words, the liberals have sandbagged President Bush by foreseeing and documenting their foreseeing of a completely random and unforeseeable event.

See how devious they were? They made the President look bad by publishing their warnings about something that nobody ever coulda seen coming! And now they point to those things as though listening to ‘em would have made some sort of difference. Where were all these “scientists” and “local officials” back when the budgets were being drawn up? Were they helping out? Nope. The record shows that all they were doing is bitching and moaning, protesting and making dire predictions, not engaging in the process at all.

Don’t fall for their lies. Or their “truths.” Or their “irrefutable evidence.” Don’t be their patsy. Instead, listen to the President’s radio address and be grateful that you live in a country where the forces of negativity and blame haven’t completely taken over. Because those America-haters are doubtless already out there predicting the next disaster, writing their little journal articles about the next earthquake or climate change or crisis that overtaxes our already committed military. And you can be sure that when the next totally unforeseeable calamity comes and claims the lives of thousands of Americans, they’ll be there with their magazines and videotapes and internet links, playing the blame game all over again for their partisan political motivations.

Let them. We’re the greatest nation on earth, and we don’t need their kind.