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On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:04:01 GMT, slim
<pickin's@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

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>moorehead wrote:
>> 
>> Jeffrey E. Salzberg wrote:
>> > > Mike is just upset that Bush wasn't down there from day one,
>> > > personally throwing sandbags on the levee.  Anything less than that
>> > > isn't enough.
>> >
>> > I'd've settled for military assistance arriving sooner than 4 days after
>> > the hurricane.
>> 
>> The coast guard was plucking people out of trees and from rooftops
>> within hours after the storm.
>> 
>> What was slow was the evacuation - but at least those people at the
>> superdome and at the convention center were on relatively dry ground.
>> The lives of those needing rescue takes priority over moving those who
>> are uncomfortable, particularly when the routes to get in to the city
>> are impassable.
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>The Coast Guard was the only Federal Agency with any BALLS.
>
>They didn't WAIT AROUND SITTING ON THIER ASSES,
>they went out and saved lives like true HEROS.
>
>THANK YOU COAST GUARD!!!

  It is indeed fortumate that they didn't need
Presidential approval to move.  They are a domestically
empowered agency, unlike the military which had to wait
three days,  while people were dying,  to get Bush's
signature approving their distribution of aid.  72
hours is a very long time,  wouldn't you think?
Especially when your sitting in a stadium in 100 degree
heat and feeling your life drain away because there's
nothing to eat or drink.  

  Think of just how painful it must have been to the
fathers,  mothers and children,  sisters and brothers
alike.  To have to sit there and wait for food and
water that never came in time,  while your grandmother,
grandfather, son, daughter, brother,  sister or mother,
fell ill,  overcome by the heat and died in front of
you while you stood helpless,  unable to do a damned
thing.

Obwon
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