Dazed and Confused

So let's see. The mayor of a large city does NOT prepare for a major hurricane, despite the fact that the city is below sea level.

Despite the fact that there was a mandatory evacuation order, city and school busses sit un-used in flooded parking lots. Thousands could have been saved.

Madatory evacuation in ANY hurricane means that police call and knock on all doors, and list next of kin for those unwilling to evacuate. Yet, we are to believe that ALL of the evacuaees were UNABLE to leave. The truth is that many were UNWILLING to leave and now we find out that over 10,000 may now be FORCED to leave at the barrel of a gun.

The mayor orders those who remained into a crowded auditorium and tells the victims to "pack three days of food" and treat the evacuation as a "camping trip".

In the meantime, the federal government offers to send in troops, but cannot do so without the permission of the state governor. So the governor decides that she needs "24 hours" to think about it, while thousands die.

FEMA, which could have been sent in right away, had the governor approved, needs 48 hours to send in workers because of UNION rules.

Red Cross workers, who had ice and clean fresh water, are turned away because state workers tell them that they might hamper rescue procedures.

In disasters outside of USA borders, army troops can be sent in immediately. But in the USA, only the governor can send in the National Guard, and those efforts must be coordinated by the state and localities.

So we are to believe that this mess is ALL George Bush's fault? Hate George Bush?
What an excellent target!

No, it is EVERYONE'S FAULT. It is the bureaucratic system and the bumbing that is at fault. Racism? What a load of CRAP.

Short of Julius Ceasar or Martin Luther King, Jr., NOBODY could have worked within those constraints and done any better.