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Kathleen, I had a post from a list member citing where the Bush Administration cut spending for the Army Corps of Engineers to fix the levees before the hurricane. This and the Downing Street memo which claims the government "fixed" facts re WMD to go to war also deserves impeachment. And to think I used to be upset with Clinton and Monica!!! Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 7:40 AM Subject: Fw: A Letter to the Editor - Los Angeles Times This came to me via a friend of the writer. Takes your breath away, doesn't it.... K. Begin forwarded message: From: Alex Shapiro Date: September 2, 2005 11:28:50 AM PDT To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Letters to the Editor - Los Angeles Times To the Editor: President Bush deserves to be impeached. On Sunday afternoon, many hours before Katrina made landfall, I logged onto the weather.noaa.gov website. Continuing to the advisory page for the New Orleans area, I was shocked to read the most alarmist, nearly hysterical public advisory issued from a U.S. government agency that I had ever seen. The urgent weather message was time stamped 4:13 p.m. CDT, Sunday August 28, 2005 and it included the following sentences, directly quoted here: EXTREMELY DANGEROUS HURRICANE KATRINA CONTINUES TO APPROACH THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER DELTA DEVASTATING DAMAGE EXPECTED "MOST OF THE AREA WILL BE UNINHABITABLE FOR WEEKS...PERHAPS LONGER." "POWER OUTAGES WILL LAST FOR WEEKS...AS MOST POWER POLES WILL BE DOWN AND TRANSFORMERS DESTROYED. WATER SHORTAGES WILL MAKE HUMAN SUFFERING INCREDIBLE BY MODERN STANDARDS." Notice the government's use of the word "will," not "may." The United States government knew exactly what was headed toward the Gulf Coast, and consciously chose to do nothing. Armed as they were with such information of a pending catastrophe of an enormous proportion, they could have immediately begun to plan, organize and mobilize a response intended to spring into action the moment the hurricane passed. Instead, President Bush continued to relax at his vacation ranch, visit sunny southern California to tout his Iraq machismo, and look the other way as thousands of mostly impoverished people perished. Our President and his administration are culpable, and I believe that their lack of appropriate response to this crisis makes them evil, as well. Alex Shapiro Malibu, California ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn