BP Oil Spill is NOT Katrina is NOT 9-11

Stop comparing BP to Katrina and 9-11. This is getting tiresome, and its idiotic rhetoic coming from both the left, the right, and the media. These three disasters are unique. One was a terrorist act, one was the weather, and one was the result of gross negligence.

9-11 was caused by murdering jihadest terrorists bent on destroying not only Americans but anyone who doesn't follow their strict beliefs. It occured because the federal government failed to put the pieces together and see that such an incident was going to occur. The pieces were there but the CIA and the FBI did not communicate thus the puzzle was never put together. The BP oil spill had nothing to do with Jihad, was not an act of terror and its insulting to those who died on 9-11 to compare it to the BP oil spill.

Katrina was the weather. No one could have stopped it. However, we could have better mitigated before it by ensuring the integrity of the levees in a Cat 5 storm and we could have responded afterward better through FEMA. The key difference between Katrina and the BP oil spill is that the government does not have a federal agency with expertise in oil spills. We did however, have one to respond to Katrina (FEMA.)

The BP oil spill was caused because BP was too cheap to actually pay for good cement work. They ignored Haliburton's warnings when they were constructing the site and did not perform safety tests. Then after the spill, they kept underestimating the severity of the leak, which hampered clean up efforts. Most of the clean up is done by corporations with expertise in oilspill clean up. The government on the other hand has no such expertise and no agency to help out. There is little the government can do but pass legislation to regulate the oil industry so this doesn't happen again.

The BP oil spill's fault rests entirely on BP. Stop blaming Obama. Stop claiming that the government isn't doing enough. This is not something the government specializes in or had prepared for.

And for the love of all that is holy stop comparing this oil spill to events in the past to which it is NOTHING alike.

J Kuhl Signing Off