[link|http://blogs.washingtonpost.com/earlywarning/|Michael Brown was set up]:

It's so easy to blame Michael Brown, but he got his marching orders from someone else. Weapons of mass destruction, not waves of mass destruction, are the president's priorities. Want to get on the White House Varsity team. Get with the program.

The same obsession that led the Bush administration to see weapons of mass destruction and terrorism in every tea leaf and go to war in Iraq now guides the entire federal government disaster response effort.

How do I prove the point? I've got the goods.

Saying Brown was powerless is going a bit far - he didn't do his job.

Cheers,
Scott.