Do you seriously think the US would send in military units to perform relief work unarmed? Not even side arms? In New Orleans, snipers on the ground were shooting at unarmed National Guard helicopters. Do you think the feds would order regular army helicopters to not return fire? Part of the job of sending in the military is to restore order. That is police work.
Police work is for the local authorities...they could have coordinated their efforts with the DoD to insure stability in the region. The solution would have been as simple as putting some armed NO cops on the helicopters or sending in the NO cops ahead of the military to secure the perimeter. Not to mention the fact that if NO had actually had those 700 non-existent cops, they wouldn't have had such a problem. Someone needs some serious jail time over that one.
"Do you seriously think the US would send in military units to perform relief work unarmed? Not even side arms? In New Orleans, snipers on the ground were shooting at unarmed National Guard helicopters. Do you think the feds would order regular army helicopters to not return fire? Part of the job of sending in the military is to restore order. That is police work."
I hate to say it but this was simply not the case. The media simply became hysteric but 99% of the reprots the media treated as real were simply BS
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2002520986_katmyth26.html