🚀 go-pugleaf

Obwon wrote:
> 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.

They are definitely heros, which is why it sickens me that so many
Bush-bashing leftists would demean and demoralize their efforts for
political gain.

> >
> >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.

Active duty military does require presidential approval, but the
National Guard fall soley and completely under the direction of the
state Governors.  You're not the least bit bothered that Governor
Blanco sat on her fat ass and did nothing with the Louisiana State
Guard while people died?

Are you also not the least bit bothered that Louisiana State officials
blocked loaded Red Cross trucks from going to the Superdome immediately
after the storm because they didn't want the superdome to be a "magnet"
for victims?

>  72
> hours is a very long time,  wouldn't you think?

Absolutely.  I'm amazed that Blanco and the mayor both havn't been
brought up on criminal negligence charges.  It is unthinkable that
neither the mayor or the Governor would have thought ahead to ensure
the Guard were positioned in the Superdome with food and water and to
provide security.

> 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.

I feel for them, definitely. The mayor and the governor's incompetence
let them down, starting with their failure to use their own fleet of
city buses and school buses to evacuate the people out of the city. I
hope the good people of Louisiana vote out both the Mayor and the
Governor and elect competent leaders who know how to respond to a
disaster, like Mayor Giuliani and Governor Jeb Bush.

mj