🚀 go-pugleaf

slim wrote:
> 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.

"Holding out" choppers?  Yeah, that's it!  Brown and Chertoff were
there on the helo pads telling the pilots to wait a few more hours
because not enough black people had drowned yet!

Cuckoo!  Cuckoo!


>
> >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.
>

That's amazing that you have verified only ONE chopper was shot at,
particularly when it was reported not only by numerous piots, but it
was even brought up by NOPD during one of their earlier conferences.

Be that as it may, even it were true that "only one" chopper was shot
it, the dynamics have immediately changed, because none of the other
pilots now if they will be shot at next, and now there's a whole new
security requirement in trying to assist the victims.  As just an
example, the recent incident involving the Army Corps of Engineers
being shot at on Danziger bridge by a gang of armed looters - LUCKILY,
they had an armed police escort who fired back, killing two, wounding
and arresting the others.


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

And I hope you understand that fantasy delusions are just that -
fantasy delusions.  The feds, who had to overcome not just 25 feet of
floodwaters and impassable roads, they had to overcome an incompetent
mayor and governor who had refused to implement their own evacuation
plan.


> While the Big Easy drowed, The Big Easy President was on vacation.
>

Liar, liar, pants on fire.  Presidents don't take vacations.  Except
for that 8-year vacation Clinton took, but he was, um, "unique" in
having a level of incomptence heretofor unseen in Amercan presidents.


> > 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."????

As I said, presidents don't take vacations.  They travel from one
location to another, but being the president follows.  The president
was on scene faster than I expected, actually - it was still an
unsecure city mostly submerged on his first visit....bravo zulu, mr.
president.  

mj