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The mayor ONLY gave the evacuation order when TOLD TO DO SO by fed's.

The Mayor left hundreds of city municipal buses and New Orleans school buses to flood in their parking lots.

The mayor ordered evacuation centers in the Super Dome and Convention Center - But failed to stage food and water in either place for the tens of thousands he had DECADES to plan for a hurricane.

The Mayor had no police control, and no police to control because HE (and previous administrations) fed a corrupt and racist police dept.

The mayor had failed to maintain HSI pumps and levees.

The mayor failed to remove people from the Dome when they could have WALKED OUT - through knee-deep it is true, but he left them there in their (his own) squalor.

The mayor and Governor HAVE NOT YET signed papers to give the fed's local authority to take control - but this was requested and signed by AL and Missip. governors BEFORE the storm hit.

http://www.philly.com/mld/miamiherald/news/special_packages/5min/12505019.htm

Posted on Mon, Aug. 29, 2005

U.S. GULF COAST
Storm carries multiple threats
Hurricane Katrina threatened to submerge 287-year-old New Orleans, create numerous dangers

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050901corps,1,7189346.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for flooding

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5239074,00.html

Blanco said President Bush called and personally appealed for the mandatory evacuation for the city,

http://www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26
City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan"

http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/091904ccktWWLIvanFlaws.132602486.html

Ivan exposes flaws in N.O.'s disaster plans
05:09 PM CDT on Sunday, September 19, 2004
"They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," Latonya Hill, 57,

an interesting video link:

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/player05.html?090305/pol_blame_090305&Your_World&Blame%20Game&acc&Politics&-1&exp

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05242/562353.stm

As dawn broke on the day after Hurricane Katrina's landfall...The federal government began rushing baby formula, communications equipment, generators, water and ice into hard-hit areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, along with doctors, nurses and first-aid supplies.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/050901/480/flpc21109012015

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050903/pl_afp/usweatherresponse_050903203446
Disintegration of New Orleans police slowed response: guard commander Sat Sep 3, 4:34 PM ET

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/08/16/national/main636126.shtml

Charley Cleanup 'Organized Chaos'
PUNTA GORDA, Fla., August 15, 2004

that quick response fueled suspicion that he is using disaster politics to help his campaign in one of the most critical battleground states, a notion the president dismissed Sunday.

"Yeah, and if I didn't come they'd have said he should have been here more rapidly," Mr. Bush said.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9177135/

Why is the relief effort taking so long?
Analyzing the government's response to Hurricane Katrina

Updated: 5:02 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2005
: Unless you're going to drop the palates from 10 or 20,000 feet on the heads of these poor people

http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1094262

Poll: Bush Not Taking Brunt of Katrina Criticism
Hurricane Preparedness Is Faulted; Fewer Blame Bush for Problems