Id love to know what you would have done that W didnt do.
The day that it became apparent that this thing was coming in (Saturday) I would have ordered the military to begin stockpiling supplies in every major city in the region that was not going to be hit with Cat 5 conditions so that the minute that the meterological all clear was given those supplies would have been ready for people.
In New Orleans and Mississippi people went for days without help from FEMA. There are people who probably died that could have been saved if only teams had been there.
Biloxi was a mess after the storm yes. Every sign was gone and whole sections of it were nothing but rubble. The guys should have still been down here that Monday cleaning up and Bush should have found a way to make it to Mobile or Baton Rouge by Tuesday and he should have stayed personally overseeing the efforts.
Thats what leadership is and thats what I would have done. It would have been my priority. If necessary I would have called every unit we could spare from overseas back home to help with the recovery.
Take what Norman Schwarzkopf and Colin Powell did during the Gulf War and apply that to the preparations for the storm. That’s what should have been done.