September 01, 2005 

Odd mood, a comingling of many different thoughts and feelings, and the murky emotional soup that it creates is both familiar and unknown.

Tense muscles, grim mood, sense of void, all reminiscent of the days after 9/11. Saddness, disbelief, horror, it's all there, like 4 years ago, but this time it's not terrorism, but a natural disaster that's to blame, and the mind fumbles to comprehend. The last time we encountered such tragedy, it was man made, there was someone to blame, but with a hurricane, you can't demand accountability from rain or go to war against mother nature.

Or at least that's how it seemed at first, that the tragedy was an act of nature, but as the days drag on, the true tragedy is anything but natural. A hurricane caused the initial damage, but that pales in comparison to the damage the goverment is causing in their slow, inept response. The hurricane could not be prevented, but the horrific tragedy that's followed did not have to happen, it could have been prevented.

The questions are futile now, but asked regardless. Why wasn't more done to evacuate before the hurricane? Why did Bush wait 3 days before going to Washington to deal with the crisis? Why didn't the goverment prepare? Why weren't they ready immediately after? Why is it that reporters can get into NOrleans, but the goverment cant? The hurricane was expected, they knew for days it was coming and would cause massive damage, so why did the goverment sit on its ass while several states were nearly wiped off the map? And why do they continue to sit on their asses while people die?

So many questions that shouldnt have to be asked and won't be answered, not truthfully, anyway. But it will be interesting, to see how they spin this. Bush went into Iraq claiming it had weapons of mass destruction but, when he was wrong about that, suddenly the war was to liberate the people. So what will it be in the wake of Katrina? How do you explain racing to war but taking your time rescuing your own country from a disaster?

This is just scary.

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