The BP oil spill is NOT "another Katrina"! (Graphic Image)

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There is no question that this spill is disastrous. The affects of it should not be downplayed and there needs to be investigations into what happened. BP can not be allowed to get away with this.

Having said that, anyone who says this is "Obama's Katrina" doesn't remember the horror of Katrina. As much as I absolutely can't stand what has happened I can not and will not compare oil floating in the Gulf to dead American's floating down the streets of a major U.S. city. These events are not comparable.

Will lives be shattered by this spill? Absolutely. Someone needs to pay for that. But 1,836 Americans died during Katrina. These were men, women, and children drowning in their own attics. They drowned in the street. Thousands and thousands of lives were permanently disrupted and they still live in ruins.

The bottom line is that right-wingers want to downplay the gigantic screw-up Bush was and compare Obama's reaction to this spill to the horror that was Katrina. They are wrong.

This is devastating:



This is something else:



And before anyone jumps on it I am very well aware of the rig workers that died. Those workers are important and I would not try to downplay their death in any way but there is a difference between death at the time of the incident and the amount of time Katrina victims were allowed to die. I am not saying there was nothing President Obama could do because obviously there were inspectors not doing their jobs but President Obama wasn't looking down from an airplane while workers burned days after the explosion.