Political Cortex: Brain Food for the Body Politic

One car flipped over completely in the parking lot out front. Across the street, a lawyer's 2-story office building had its roof ripped off.  A couple blocks away, a bank building had its entire roof ripped off.  A jewelry store, a men's tore, an antique shop all experienced broken windows and roof damage.  50% of the businesses experienced some damage.  Electricity and water were knocked out for 95% of Fort Lauderdale and Broward County residents.  

It seemed that heaven was pouring out Hurricane Wilma's wrath and anger over the way man has treated planet earth's elements.

L.A. and San Francisco are well known to have a series of earthquake faults running under their downtown areas.  That hasn't stopped profiteers from building 50-story buildings.  A quake of sufficient magnitude which conceivably could demolish both cities' downtown areas, would be hastily labeled by the media, "an act of Nature", never once relating either hurricane and earthquake disasters to man's greedy nature.

The USA can take a shameful bow, for being the world's number one polluter, generating more than 50% of the world's pollution.  Fifty-three Nobel Prize winning scientists have declared that the "pollution" is generating "greenhouse gases", which in turn are heating up the oceans.  This effect in turn has been creating more powerful hurricanes than ever before.

Radio big mouth Rush Limbaugh declares there is no connection between hurricanes and the pollution spewed by big industrial businesses.  He states this was no scientific expertise.  Right now Rush is busy with his high-powered attorney Roy Black trying to keep secret the full extent of his drug addiction problem in the past.  (We hope it is all in his past.)

As for President Bush, he fears that to ask big business to control its pollution could be too costly, hurting the US economy.

After Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Wilma, the question must be asked, "What has allowing pollution to continue unabated in certain industries done to our economy?"

It was not the brightest economic idea to cut nearly 50% off the budget to fund engineers to study the best way to protect the levees in New Orleans from flooding the city in the event of a hurricane.

Perhaps what happened in New Orleans represented the greatest lack of planning for a national disaster in the history of the United States.  Bush hastily congratulated his appointee to FEMA, Michael Brown, for doing a good job in handling the disaster.  The world watched TV in horror as they saw thousands of people without food or water in the New Orleans Superdome.  Days upon end these people suffered.  Over a thousand people died in this disaster.  There are even claims that in a nursing home some individuals were euthanized.

Between taking bows for appointing Brown, Bush was using Air Force One to fly over the Gulf Coast of New Orleans and Mississippi.  Photo ops were always present.

Finally, amid swelling public outrage, Michael Brown was quietly assigned another job.  

Daily disclosure of the details of how the US was led into the Iraq War with false information and forged documents persist.  We were now being informed of the extent of the Administration's wrath at anyone who dared stand in the way of Bush's determination to wage war in Iraq.  Scooter Libby, an underling of Cheney's, was revealed as the leaker of the CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.  Was this a vengeful response to her husband Joseph Wilson, who went to Africa and revealed to the Bush Administration that the claim of Saddam Hussein obtaining uranium from Niger to create nuclear weapons was false?  

Brushing any information or individual aside, Bush and Cheney, along with Rice, Powell and Rumsfeld, went to war.  Before 9/11 war against Iraq was being discussed.  9/11 provided the perfect trigger mechanism to enrage the American public via the media supplicants to launch the Iraq War.  All of this nightmare war, with Americans dying daily in an unnecessary Iraq conflict, was the backdrop for the Hurricane Disaster in New Orleans.

Having plunged the US into a staggering national debt, having launched an unnecessary and illegal war on false information, all the USA needed now was the second powerful hurricane, Hurricane Wilma.