[joinedafterattack]

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that President Bush had called and urged the state to order the evacuation.

[Abathar]

Thanks for the link, I am going to slither through the sewer at DU and see if I can post it there, just to see if I get banned doing it. Every single person over there blames Bush, I wonder if maybe this can sway them a little. (snicker)

[oldbrowser]

Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said that President Bush had called and urged the state to order the evacuation.

The Army Corp of Engineers commander has stated that the emergency preparedness plan for NO in case of anything higher than a Cat 3 hurricane was complete evacuation of NO.

The levees were not designed to withstand anything higher than a Cat 3 hurricane.

[Arkie2]

So if Bush hadn't urged the evavuation the gov and the mayor would have sat on their a$$e$ and the death toll would have been astronomical.

[LucyJo]

BTTT

[GretchenM]

a big fyi from an article before the hurricane hit

[Columbus Dawg]

http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=144232

I posted this article a couple of days back on another thread. Read the last paragraph. It clearly states that what you are saying is FACT.

I am from Ohio, home to the least popular governor in the nation, Governor RINO Boob Taft, who was just convicted of ethics violations. As much as I rip on RINO Bob, I am pretty confident that he would be handling this situation much better than Governor Blanco currently is.

There are problems everywhere in that zone of destruction along the Gulf Coast. Yet, the folks in Mississippi and Alabama, along with certain parishes in Louisiana, have been handling themselves in an amazing way given the circumstances.

[Roscoe Karns]

"Wha..?"

[crazyhorse691]

Excellent find. Won't mean a thing to the moonbats.

[Jaded]

MARK

[maridee]

Thank you for this! I am so sick of the msm and liberals in general blaming Bush for this disaster.
What in the world would have happened if they never called for a mandatory evacuation?

As to the pictures of the school buses, I could never understand why they did not assist those without cars to evacuate with any buses that might be available, and then to see these buses just sitting in water blows my mind.
Unbelieveable.

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Ancient history - no one will recall this. We need to keep this up front.

[AmericanInTokyo]

I've said for a number of years on FR, that, for starters, we need to actually declare GANG MEMBERS as domestic terrorists, officially, through laws, and if possible suspension of Constitutional Rights for them, and consider them dangerous fifth columnists, placed in enemy combatant status, and completely disarm all gangs (150,000 members alone in LA) in a massive, long term, national military sweep. Illegal aliens should also NOW all be deported!! Screw the ACLU, MALDEF, John Edwards and Jesse Jackson. The great majority of the American People will not anymore stand for it. There is no more tolerance of vast sums of criminals like this in our major cities no different than terrorists. It is untenable that we can allow such to live or exist in our country on the streets. Ghettos are NOT just 'their' problem. It, and their criminal elements, are A NATIONAL SECURITY INTERNAL VULNERABILITY.

If, after this New Orleans fiasco, gangs are able to continue to exist in huge numbers in SF, Chicago, Detroit, NYC, Washington, Baltimore, Atlanta, Boston, Memphis, you name it, then we are a nation are truly screwed...for the integrity of our cities CAN NOT BE GUARANTEED in the event of a major pandemic, or weapons of mass destruction attack such as a suitcase nuke.

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From the Google cache can? Why wouldn't CNN have this story still up?

[weegee]

Great find.

The left has gone blog crazy forwarding the rants from the mayor and Lord Ho Ho (Michael Moore) blaming Bush for the flood.

I've gotten sick of their partisan crap.

I support the President but I don't support the flood.

[Lady In Blue]

Bump for later read.

[RGSpincich]

Of course Bush was on top of this. We all know that. I would like to focus on the rescue and recovery aspect but these donkeys keep wanting to go political on this.

[delacoert]

Bump

[Chicos_Bail_Bonds]

bttt

[kabar]

It would be interesting to get a timeline on when Bush called and how much time elapsed before ordering the mandatory evacuation. I watched the announcement by the Governor and Mayor on Sunday morning, August 28. Mississippi did a little better.

"Gov. Haley Barbour declared a state of emergency on Saturday and forecasters predicted the storm to make landfall anywhere from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana.

Mike Womak, deputy director of the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency, said that Hancock County was the only area of the state under a mandatory evacuation order on Saturday afternoon.

"However, all three coastal counties are in the process of making their final preparations for issuing their evacuation notices," Womak said, adding the orders could be issued Saturday or Sunday."

"The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency also urged people to heed the orders."

"I'm very concerned about people in Mississippi and Louisiana who have watched these storms the past two years hit Florida and Alabama and may have a little lackadaisical attitude toward this thing," FEMA director Michael Brown told AP Radio.

Hurricane Katrina could plow through Mississippi beginning as early as Monday

[lapsus calami]

 

 

Everybody should stop by and take a gander at this thread

 

 

Check out evacuation instructions from NOLA website

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1475714/posts