🚀 go-pugleaf

moorehead wrote:

> No, the fact that all available helicopters were in use rescuing people
> who were still holding on to trees near death and those clinging to
> rooftops kept them for lowering food to the people at the convention
> center and the superdome.  

You have a cite for that?

"All available" could mean six or seven actually in use,
while the feds were holding out hundreds.

>The choppers that were flying in close to
> the center of the city trying to rescue people there were being shot
> at, which didn't help much, either.

One helicopter was shot at.

I hope that you can understand that these people felt
betrayed and abandoned by the BU$H administration.

While the Big Easy drowed, The Big Easy President was on vacation.
 
> My heart goes out to the folks at the Superdome and the convention
> center - but they were at least alive and dry.  In a disaster of
> biblical proportions like this, the initial priority is to rescue and
> save those near death rather than improve the comfort of the living -
> sorry to burst that liberal wet dream your clinging to.

What wet dream are YOU clinging to?

the one that says it was OK for BU$H to vacation for three days
during "a disaster of  biblical proportions like this."????

-- 


Donald Rumsfeld: "If you're asking if there's a direct 
link between 9/11 and Iraq, the answer is no."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4865948/ 

On May 01, 2003, President Bush declared that, 
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

"I'm the commander -- see, I don't need to explain -- 
I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the 
interesting thing about being the president. 
Maybe somebody needs to explain to me why they 
say something, but I don't feel like I owe anybody 
an explanation. " 
- George "Dubya" Bush