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I'm sure I have missed this in all of the thousands of threads, but I get this impending doom that Al Quaida is just rubbing their hands in glee watching all of this chaos. Their concerns that they might have had that our Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness programs would be able to handle a large scale attack have been put aside. They see the chaos that has ensued...surely it must be tempting for them to take out additional cities with a nuke or bio attack right know so that they can throw the whole nation upside down. Regardless to say, right now would not be a good time for them to proceed with any of their dastardly plans....

you know, it's harsh to say it, but if we are playing the blame game, we can lump in The President, The Govenor, the mayor, local authorities, FEMA...etc.

yet no one ever mentions the individuals responsibility to take reasonable precautions.

I know everyone says, "oh, but they are poor, so we can't expect them to behave in a reasonable manner"
but I don't buy that argument.
Being poor does not absolve you from common sense.

If we want to blame people, then we should blame ALL people that have created this situation. and yes, that includes the people who sat in their apartment with a bag of Doritos and a 2 liter of Pepsi knowing full well a hurricane was bearing down on them...i know it sounds kinda harsh, but few people should have even been in New Orleans to begin with

but in hindsight, we should wait on the blame game for a while.....it really doesn't matter now, we can only carry on from where we are. But I wish that the folks who are trying to blame this on Karl Rove would stop and think for a moment....

Sec. Chertoff is on CNN and he's really spinning this badly. He's essentially saying that FEMA is struggling because of the unprecedented scale of the disaster...a catastrophic flood in a major US city and hurricane damage along the gulf coast.

Sorry, this is a load of BS. It's not like this result wasn't predicted in the wake of a cat4/5. It was predicted up to a year before the actual event. The feds have really dropped the ball. Five days after the event people are still being raped, bodies still rotting, looters still looting and people still dying in public. And don't give any excuses about local incompetence hindering efforts. Thats a cop-out. Given local incompetence, the Feds should have been in override mode from the moment Blanco started having a breakdown on live TV.

This is a huge debacle on every level.