AlterNet: Post-Katrina Talking Points

AlterNet: Post-Katrina Talking Points: "After an interminable week of silence on the administration's shockingly inept handling of the Katrina tragedy, Democratic leaders finally spoke out, with Harry Reid questioning whether the president's vacation hindered relief efforts and Nancy Pelosi labeling him 'oblivious, in denial, dangerous.'

Missing was a direct critique of Bush's greatest vulnerability -- the tens of thousands of men and women and the hundreds of billions of dollars that he is squandering in Iraq instead of using them to really protect the homeland, including from Katrina and its aftermath.

In a stinging Wall Street Journal analysis of the administration's lethally slow response, the first two reasons given for 'why the U.S. didn't adequately protect and rescue its citizens' were, 1) 'the absorption of FEMA into the gargantuan -- and terrorism-focused -- Department of Homeland Security'; and 2) 'a military stretched by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which made commanders reluctant to commit active-duty units nearby.'"