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Brown admitted that he looked at Katrina as a garden variety hurricane last Sunday while the NWS was posting about "incredible suffering" in a forecast that scared the daylights out of most people who saw it.

Brown showed up on television claiming that FEMA was taking care of the people in the Convention Center while thousands of people were shoved in like so much cordwood.

Brown claimed in subsequent interviews that they didn't "bring the right equipment" because the locals didn't tell them what to bring -- and while this points back at Nagin and Blanco, this does not exonerate Brown. His agency should know the basic equipment to bring.

Chertoff's agency is supposed to coordinate what's what in a disaster; his agency should have been in touch with locals in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama even before landfall in order to begin to marshal resources. DHS didn't.

Had this been a terrorist-driven disaster, DHS still wouldn't have been able to handle themselves.

As I said, there is plenty of blame to go around.

The locals didn't even look at their own disaster manuals and resources.

Blanco looks like she's been sitting on the couch eating cookie dough ice cream with her deer-in-headlights face. Give her a remote control and that picture would be complete.

"Brown claimed in subsequent interviews that they didn't "bring the right equipment" because the locals didn't tell them what to bring -- and while this points back at Nagin and Blanco, this does not exonerate Brown. His agency should know the basic equipment to bring.

It's one thing to criticize but before you do you really ought to understand how the system is suppose to work.

"Chertoff's agency is supposed to coordinate what's what in a disaster; his agency should have been in touch with locals in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama even before landfall in order to begin to marshal resources. DHS didn't."

That is BS. They had assets moving as early as Thursday and Friday. I know at least three human assets that were down there and in place by Sunday. First responders are the locals and they request stuff from DHS and FEMA. That is how the system works. You may not like it but that is how it works.