[satchmodog9]

When this gets to the Post, let us know.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

The Washington Times puts its similarly named counterparts in New York and Los Angeles to shame.

[cajungirl]

I think this may get legs. Good article. Well written.

[Charles Henrickson]

New Orleans Ignored Its Own Plan

Bush's fault, of course.

[Hetty_Fauxvert]

A state-of-the-art mobile hospital developed with Homeland Security grants to respond to disasters and staffed by 100 doctors and paramedics was left stranded in Mississippi because Louisiana officials would not let it deploy to New Orleans.

Red Cross officials say the organization was well positioned to provide food, water and hygiene products to the thousands stranded in New Orleans. But the state refused to let them deliver the aid.

Aaaaarrrrgh ....

At least this is finally being reported in the MSM, though. Let's see if any of this info makes it into Hillary's precious commission.

[atomicpossum]

The facts are out there. They won't go unnoticed forever.

[Wuli]

"Confusion reigned in Katrina's aftermath. A state-of-the-art mobile hospital developed with Homeland Security grants to respond to disasters and staffed by 100 doctors and paramedics was left stranded in Mississippi because Louisiana officials would not let it deploy to New Orleans."

Another one of those missing links, either carefully avoided or never even looked into by the LSM, because then that idiot Governor would have had to recieve the public's rath, and the LSM was having none of that.

[Shermy]

"The city of New Orleans followed virtually no aspect of its own emergency management plan in the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina."

I read the article. Where did they not follow their plan?

[ncountylee]

"Two days after the storm hit, the governor issued an order for buses to roll, but by then hundreds of buses in New Orleans were underwater and useless. "

Hundreds perhaps thousands dead because of these two pukes.

[ASA Vet]

September 2^nd

[mrmargaritaville]

Look-let's face it-it's all GW Bush's fault. The evacuation plan would have worked if Bush had not had the Dept. of Def shoot down the space ship that Louis Farrakhan and the infamous Rita X have talked about. That space ship was the REAL evacuation plan.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

[The plan does not say how such an evacuation should be executed, but states that a full evacuation of the city would take 72 hours, and that the city knows that there are "approximately 100,000 citizens of New Orleans [who] do not have means of personal transportation."

The guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has little jurisdiction to act on its own but is designed to work with local authorities, suggests that local evacuation plans "coordinate the use of school buses and drivers to support evacuation efforts."

Neither New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin nor Mrs. Blanco ordered buses to take people out of the city before the storm. Two days after the storm hit, the governor issued an order for buses to roll, but by then hundreds of buses in New Orleans were underwater and useless. ]

About says it all.

Paging Sentator Landrieu. Paging Senator Clinton. Paging Senator Kennedy. Paging Congresswoman Pelosi. Paging hairman Screamin' Dean. Etc.

[PhilipFreneau]

>> New Orleans Ignored Its Own Plan <<

And Stone Philips of NBC just finished his "report" on what when wrong in New Orleans (a propaganda piece to shift blame to FEMA) with final recommendations and warnings by His Royal Mayor Nagin. I cannot believe America has digressed so low. I worry about the possibility of God's Wrath on this modern-day Sodom and Gomorrah.

[swheats]

One of the most amazing things is that it appears that our local officials are not or will not take terrorist attacks seriously either. It would have been very convenient to strike us in the midst of another calamity such as a natural disaster.

I'm somewhat surprised that we haven't seen or heard a tape from bin laden or his cohorts commenting about the flooding in NO.

After viewing this photo essay it does cause one to ask what happened. The timespan between Katrina and the flooding.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Uc=14ewb3ap.b147fdut&Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Bump.

[Happy2BMe]

NOLA ignored it's own evacuation plans ..

[PISANO]

Rush did 2 hours on this last week.........bout time someone else picked it up.

[Mind-numbed Robot]

The more we know and the longer we consider what happened it seems improbable that this was unplanned chaos and incompetency. Planned chaos makes more sense of the facts. Motive? Rid the city of all the "undesirables", dump their costs on others, and make tons of money rebuilding a new city with no derelicts, at least at first.

Democrats and their buds get rich, the Republicans and Bush get the blame. That connects the dots better than anything else.