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Chris wrote:
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>>Chris wrote:
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>>>"Chris" <vscooter@nospam.copper.net> wrote in message
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>>>>"Obwon" <obllOob@att.net> wrote in message
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>>>>>Please Phil, there were offers of help pouring in from
>>>>>all over the world.  Bush kept them out by refusing
>>>>>aid.
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>>You are wrong, Foriegn aid is being accepted.
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>>>>>There was plenty of food and water in NO, it was
>>>>>in the stores that had been abandoned.  Obviously there
>>>>>was a plan...   To see to it that as many people would
>>>>>die as could be killed by benevolent neglect.  Everyone
>>>>>was working hard to keep aid,  food and water from
>>>>>coming in.  Or do you somehow believe that it takes
>>>>>three days to drive trucks from Texas and Fla to NO?
>>>>>
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>>The Govenor of the state of Louisiana blocked food and supplies from
>>reaching people trapped at the New Orleans Convention Center and the
>>Louisiana Superdome.  Those were supplies had locally.
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>>Now as to getting trucks in from Texas and Fla, the roads were not
>>passable.  It takes to to map and safe route for convoys to travel.
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>>>>Yeah, it is funny how kids could steal school busses to get people out
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> but
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>>>>the government couldn't get military trucks in for three days.....those
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>>>must
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>>>>be some damn powerful busses. Oops, I ruined another one of the bush
>>>>faithfuls arguments...damn me all to hell.
>>>
>>Sorry to bust your bubble, but the mayor of New Orleans had hundreds of
>>buses available to evacuate people on.  Houston;s Metro offered to send
>>every available bus to N.O. to help in the evacuation of the city but
>>were turned down by the mayor.
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>>As for the kid who stole a bus, the question is where was he when he
>>found the bus and where were the people he picked up located?  Could it
>>be he originated from an area not as flooded ans the rest of the city?
>>How long did it take him ot get out?  How many times did he have to
>>change route?  YOu know it is easy for someone who lives in the city to
>>find route out.  For those who do not it is not easy to get into a
>>flooded city not knowing which streets are passable and which are not.
>>It takes time to map a route that is safe and passable.
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>>MRC
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> 
> So you are saying there is no one from NO in the military who knows there
> way around the city? And have you heard of this new thing called GPS and
> satellite imaging? You could find your way around downtown Baghdad at night
> in a snowstorm...so don't tell me they couldn't fine their way around NO in
> the daytime....


No, I am not saying that but the majority of the Guard units brought in 
did not know the city.  This is not star trek.  Gizmos are nice but a 
GPS can not tell you what is passible or not.  Not all guard units have 
the latest GPS systems.  Satilite imaging is not something that 
individual units have nor is something the Guard units are equiped with. 
  Further more Saltilite imaging does not tell you what is passiable 
(i.e debris or water depth).  When disaster strikes, GPS and Satelite 
imaging  can be worthless wheter you are in Bagdad or New Orleans.

MRC