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"moorehead" <moorehead_johnson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> 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.

Who said anything bad about the Coast Guard strawman? We were bashing bushy
cause that's what he deserves....but nice try to tie him in with the real
heroes.....typical of your ilk....jump on the coat tails of the heroes, but
distance yourself from those who screw up...including your own
administration....putz.

>
> > >
> > >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
>