Wake-up
The human tragedy and the incompetent execution debacle of emergency response by the President and his senior leaders have no defense. It is a public disgrace. And as a country, we are in grave danger with this unimaginative, negligent, bureaucratic, incompetent leadership in charge. BUSH and brigade, who by their own actions, poor judgments and results achieved, have demonstrated before the world, and before our eyes, that they are incapable of leading and protecting this country. What we are witnessing is just an example of their limited capacity for real leadership, with three or four days notice. The president and his leadership at a levels, by the multiple news conferences just today, seem to be stating they were “totally overwhelmed” by having a two dimensional emergency in the same area ---- hurricane and a secondary levee breakdown. What will be their response, if we, God forbid, have another multiple state tragedy or major multiple terrorists attacks that have been promised soon. Obviously, we are unprepared as a country with leaders who haven’t a clue how to manage a wide scale emergency response.
ARE THESE THE LEADERS YOU WANT TO ENTRUST WITH YOUR LIVES, YOUR FAMILY and YOUR COUNTRY TO AT THE TIME OF AN EMERGENCY?
The BUSH and brigade incompetence and lack of preparedness and personal negligence in a timely response was not due to complexity. Arranging for busses, food and water, are pretty basic common sense first priorities, which should have been handled adequately with three days notice. Many emergencies do not have such luxury of advanced notice. God help us if we encounter one.
Although the hurricane took its toll, the president and his brigade bear the accountability for the grievous breech of leadership competence that has directly caused massive abuse and disrespect for our citizens and the death of untold thousands.
BUSH and his senior leaders are also accountable for proving to us that their policies and leadership skill are a national threat to our security.
BUSH and SENIOR ADMINISTRATION FAILED MANAGEMENT 101
I personally spent over twenty years with IBM Corporation as a leader. From our first management 101 class, we were taught how to develop, plan, implement and achieve superior results. We were also taught that in an emergency, we were to use common sense and leadership judgment and that we would be held accountable for our leadership actions and decisions. Additionally, we were instilled with the “sunshine test” ----- which said, if our behavior, actions, decisions and results achieved were headlined in the news and had implications on people and the company, we would be fired. This was done routinely in circumstances with far less ----- far, far less then what we have witnessed in this inexcusable leadership response to a dire emergency.
This is not a failure of those on the ground and in the air that are working their hearts out to help people. This is failure of epic proportions by senior leadership of BUSH and his administration at the top levels.
CAN WE AFFORD TO WAIT FOR ACCOUNTABILITY?
BUSH and his BRIGADE have escaped accountability for anything up to this point -------- we sit with outrageous deficits, a war out of control, thousands of our young military dead in illegal war, estimates of up to 100,000 civilian casualties of a self-proclaimed war president, our reputation through the world has plummeted, our dollar is weakening, gas reaching as high at $6.00 gallon this week, our infrastructure crumbling while Halliburton’s pockets are stuffed with our money, healthcare and schools in devastation many part of our country, homeless and poverty with inadequate care and concern. With all these pressing issues, we have a President, so out-of-touch, that he feels he can afford the longest vacation in presidential history with a country out of control and unprepared to protect its citizen at the most dangerous time in our modern history. It is appalling. KATRINA and it tragic outcome has given us a heartbreaking window into the mess that this administration led our country into since it took office. Read American Caesar for a deeper glimpse.
ARE THESE THE LEADERS YOU WANT TO ENTRUST WITH YOUR LIVES, YOUR FAMILY and YOUR COUNTRY TO AT THE TIME OF AN EMERGENCY? Read this.
Debbe Kennedy
Founder, Global Dialogue Center
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thanks for your analysis! still waiting for the political fallout of this emergency, maybe at 2008!
Posted by: Afrit | June 11, 2007 at 07:22 AM