Reply #13: The enormity of the catastrophe [View All]

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was such that the WH must have known at the start that nothing could be done to fix it anytime soon. If Obama had gone down when it first happened he would have only ended up looking weak and ineffectual. If he had sent the military down there at the beginning, then BP could have shifted the blame for the lack of solution from themselves to the U.S. Military. Obama did the right thing by sending all the scientific and engineering experts to Houston. BP could have escaped blame, responsibility and liability, if Obama let the military intervened too early.