I disagree. To not have a plan in place for a category 4 hurricane and/or a levee break in New Orleans is criminal, nothing short of criminal. What about Ivan last year? It isn't as though this was not both foreseen and predicted. Granted that the people there need to spend their time rescuing people, those of us unable to physically help right this second can sure take notice of the poor planning and above all horrendous implementation.
Dana On 9/2/05, Matthew Small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's far too easy to point fingers at people in a situation like this. > Nobody expected this to need 40,000 troops on the ground just to deal with > the rampant looting and criminal activity. To compare this with the war is > just looking for another way to embarrass people in charge who have an > enormous job to do. I'm not a fan of the Bush administration, but this is > doesn't have anything to do with the Bush administration, which is the > underlying point of her remarks. > > I watched Diane Sawyer's interview with GWB yesterday morning and Ted > Koppel's interview with the head of FEMA last night. Neither of these > interviews were meant to provide the public with really useful information > - > rather, they were asking questions that were unanswerable and purposefully > meant to make these people look as bad as possible. Here's a paraphrased > snippet: > > TK: "We've heard reports from FEMA that there are 5000 people at the > convention center. We have reporters on the ground who estimate 15000. How > many people are in the Convention Center?" > > FEMA: "I sent General XXXX in to estimate the people there. His estimate > was 25000." > > TK: "We've been reporting these kinds of numbers for day now. Aren't your > people watching the news???" > > FEMA (angrily but cool): "No Ted, we haven't had time to watch the news. > We're too busy trying to save lives." > > > I think ANYONE who thinks that we're moving too slow and not doing > everything we can is deluded as to what can be done in a situation like > this. It's an incredible thing which happens only once every thousand > years > or so, so it's just not possible to be prepared for this. It's so classic > to blame the people who are trying to help as not doing enough for you. > There's never any responsibility to be taken for these people not getting > out of the city. True, there are thousands of poor, but instead of waiting > to be rescued as calmly as possible, they've created a situation that > makes > it impossible to rescue them. Looters, shooters, rapists, killers - this > is > a situation of their own making, nothing that the federal, state, or local > governments can do could have prevented that. > > Matthew Small > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:172419 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
