[Hodar]

"If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature," said Joe Cook of the New Orleans ACLU.

Let's analyze this logic of Mr. Cook's for a second.
1. Don't eat poison - oops, I warned you so if you do it, it's my fault.
2. Smoking is unhealthy, so if you do it, it's my fault
3. Don't drink and drive; if you do it, it's my fault

And people wonder why Americans believe that the greatest threat that our country is going to see is not some terrorist; but the ALCU.

[Glacier Honey]

It's still Bush's fault

If Kerry would have been elected - this would have never happened!!!

(Sarcasm)

[speekinout]

I think you are overreacting to the fact that this came from the ACLU. I almost never agree with them, but this time they are right. NO has asked for evacuation in the past, and they had ample opportunity to find out why not everyone did, and to fix the problem.

They did nothing.

Past experience should have been more than enough to tell them they needed a plan to bus people out. That would have been much easier last Sat. than it is today.
They could have Medi-Vac'd out the most seriously ill from the hospitals last Sat.

They did nothing.