Saturday, September 03, 2005

Questions to ask your favorite conservative

Courtesy of Tiny Cat Pants' Aunt B:

I was wondering when the last time was that a U.S. President has overseen so many separate calamities so costly to the U.S. population. There are an estimated 297,000,000 of us. We lost 2,986 people on September 11th. As of yesterday, we've lost 1,885 troops in Iraq and 233 in Afghanistan. Of the known dead from the hurricane, there are 411 direct deaths and 631 related deaths. Twenty thousand people are missing and the death toll will, when all is said and done, be in the thousands. Senator David Vitter thinks we should expect at least ten thousand dead.

And we still have three more years. Who in America will not have lost someone they know to a national disaster on Bush's watch by the end of this?

Seriously.

If someone had told you six years ago that one out of every 20,000 Americans would be killed by this Administration's decisions or bungling during times of calamity, would you have believed it?

I wouldn't have.

According to the National Weather Service, your odds of getting struck by lightning are one in 700,000.

That's right. You have a better chance of being killed during the Bush administration by the administration's incompetence than being struck by lightning.

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