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"Obwon" <obllOob@att.net> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 06 Sep 2005 20:04:01 GMT, slim
> <pickin's@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >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.
> >
> >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.

Amen! Thank you for stating the obvious for our Reality-Challenged
bretheren.
>
> Obwon
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