To the editor:

Ms. Sarah Ashley Posch (Public Forum, Sept. 17) seems to believe that someone who doesn’t share her belief in God by extension believes that President Bush “conjured up Hurricane Katrina.” I don’t believe in God and I don’t believe that President Bush conjured up Hurricane Katrina.

I do believe that he should have waved his hand and commanded some attention toward global warming at the Kyoto Conference five years ago. Research (if you believe in research) has shown a very probable link between global warming and our increasingly violent weather.

I do believe he alone could have spake to Congress and commanded appropriations for funds to strengthen and hold the levees.

I do believe that had he smote the ground running he could have provided loaves and fishes – and bottled water, naturally – to keep his flock from dying of hunger and thirst as they were sitting in wheelchairs, lying by the roadsides, in attics, on rooftops and in that horrific conference center.

You’re half right about being scary, but it’s not scary, he’s scary.

Deirdre O’M Humphrey,

Lawrence