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Keith Olberman's editorial on the City of Louisiana

Keith Olberman of MSNBC had a brilliant editorial tonight about the federal government's handling of Katrina. It's a must read. Here's the link - read it all - and here's a snippet:

But, nationally, these are leaders who won re-election last year largely by portraying their opponents as incapable of keeping the country safe. These are leaders who regularly pressure the news media in this country to report the reopening of a school or a power station in Iraq, and defies its citizens not to stand up and cheer. Yet they couldn't even keep one school or power station from being devastated by infrastructure collapse in New Orleans — even though the government had heard all the "chatter" from the scientists and city planners and hurricane centers and some group whose purposes the government couldn't quite discern... a group called The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

And most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection — or at least amelioration — against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological.

It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water.

If the Federal Government can't get a truckload of water to a desparate New Orleans in five days, how can it protect us terrorism? What happens if a dirty bomb hits New York City or another hurricane hits the country?

by John Legler, Guest Columnist
September 5, 2005