Where would New Orleans be without Bush?

"Tensions over funding for the New Orleans levees emerged more than a year ago when a local official asserted money had been diverted to pay for the Iraq war... Since 2001, the Army Corps has requested $496 million for that project but the Bush administration only budgeted $166 million." Full article

"You can do everything for other countries, but you can't do nothing for your own people. You can go overseas with the military, but you can't get them down here."
- Daniel Edwards, 47. New Orleans.

"We have individuals who are getting raped, we have individuals who are getting beaten. Tourists are walking in that direction and they are getting preyed upon."
- New Orleans Police Chief Eddie Compass, describing the situation at the Convention Center.

"I haven't seen a single FEMA [Federal EmergencyManagement Agency] guy. We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims, but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans."
- Terry Ebbert, New Orleans' emergency operations chief.

"They pulled guns and told us we had to leave that kitchen or they would blow our damn brains out. We don't want their help. Give us some vehicles and we'll get ourselves out of here!"
- Donald Dudley, 55, complaining that when he and other hungry refugees broke into the kitchen of the convention center and tried to prepare food, the National Guard chased them away.

Meanwhile, four days after Hurricane Katrina demolished New Orleans, Gulfport, and Biloxi, GW Bush went on Good Morning America and promised a rapid federal response. Definitely! The feds will be there! At some point they will arrive! Any day now! Just sit tight, N'Awlins, help is on the way... patience, patience...

Molly Ivins and Michael Moore say it all.
Quotes above from Yahoo news