Mandatory evacuation ordered for New Orleans (Please keep this post - BUSH ORDERED EVACUATION!)

NOLA ^ | 8/28/05

[areafiftyone]

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.

[Just mythoughts]

BUMP!!!!!!!

[BallyBill]

It is terrible that US Bush supporters actually have to join in on the blame game, but the Bush bashers started a ghoulish and pathetic attack. It is our responsibility and not the administration to get our hands dirty.

[Prophet in the wilderness]

Maybe that was their plan all along before , during, and after the hurricane.
How can we, the NEW MEDIA get this truth out to the American public, that President Bush told them ( mayor of N.O. and the Gov of LA ) to evacuate days before the hurricane hit ? and the incompetence belongs on the backs of the liberals, the mayor of N.O. and the Gov of LA.

[ThomasNast]

I hate to suggest it, but I wouldn't put it past the Democrats and the race baiters to hope for black suffering as ammunition to use against Bush.

For the last forty years or so, it seems that blacks are the most important Americans. If you upset them, offend them, look at them the wrong way, they can extract all kinds of monies from your city or state or business. Now if Bush does ANYTHING that can be taken as offensive then they can destroy him politically.

[G.Mason]

"Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding."

As this report was filed at "8/28/2005, 10:48 a.m. CT", President Bush most certainly had called Blanco on Saturday, August 27th, the same day the President declared Louisiana a disaster area. Katrina did not hit New Orleans until early a.m. Monday morning.

[Yasotay]

The government at ALL levels FAILED.

[kenth]

Yeah, that's a damn shame. I wish he'd had some buses before the hurricane hit.

[johnny7]

They did less than let them just stay... the cops avoided them.

I heard Shepard Smith say countless times that the patrol cars were just “driving around... just watching”. Then, when the water came in from the lake... they just evaporated.

[Reagan Man]

Buses that Mayor Nagin never used to evacuate the people of New orleans who had no way out of the city prior to hurricane Katrina hitting the Gulf Coast.

[TomGuy]

Mayor Nagin was saying on a tv interview as Cat-5 Katrina was nearing N.O. that his attorneys (city) recommended he NOT call for a mandatory evac due to potential 'liability' issues.

Afterward, the Mayor has been saying he couldn't get any responsive, decision-maker at the govern's office to act/respond/help.

Texas officials say they could not get any responsive, decision-maker at the govern's office for their offers of assistance.

Michigan (IIRC) officials wanting to offer NG support, say they could not get any responsive, decision-maker at the govern's office.

More and more it is seeming that the 'problem' was with the governor's office. FEDs needed the governor's OK because the governor is the state executive. Locals needed the governor's OK because much of the assistance has to come/be initiated by the state executive.

[cwb]

I saw this last Sunday and have been noting it since then. And I can even tell you the reason why SHE did this. After last year's failed evacuation of New Orelans when Hurricane Ivan "didn't hit," the city planners took a lot of heat for inconveniencing people. She waited for someone else to take the responsibilty so she could blame them if Katrina didn't hit. She noted that Bush not only ordered the evacs, but he also declared a state of emergency before she did.

From the start this crisis has been handled, politically. She failed to use the national guard in its proper "law enforecment" role because she didn't want to be held responsible for Guardsmen shooting "poor, black people." How could she even order this when her own AG and Mayor were helping to justify this looting under a "need to survive."

[tiki]

I also heard that the NOAA guy asked the mayor to evacuate.

[headsonpikes]

You are right - that pathetic cow is simply trying to avoid all respponsibility for anything.

Is she in hiding?

She ought to resign in disgrace.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Also keep in mind that lots of blacks ignored the evacuation order. It's that mentality some blacks have in NO - "I ain't going nowhere the gov't will come anyway...."

[cwb]

Mayor Nagin is an idiot. After last years Ivan debacle...when the hurricane didn't even hit his city, he was warned by the Red Cross of the cities failure. They even told him that they would not be setting up shelters in his city for anything greater than a Cat-2 since the city was too dangerous.

Nagin responded by noting that he could use the Superdome, but people even warned that it would turn into an island. He later said that he would than have to evacuate the city. He had at least a year to put in place a plan after these warnings and did nothing to evacuate any of these people.

[gaspar]

And I think most on the Gulf Coast knew that New Orleans was a sink of corruption and a city that would implode in the wake of a natural disaster.

[Dems_R_Losers]

These idiots did not even start a contraflow on I-10 until Sunday, mere hours before tropical storm-force winds started pounding the area. To my knowledge, there was NEVER a mandatory evacuation order given in the City of New Orleans. I happen to believe this was because the fool mayor knew damn well that if he issued a mandatory order he had a responsibility to get all the poor folks out of the 9th ward and he had no way to do it. He also probably knew that the second he gave a mandatory order, the looting would begin. So he just closed his eyes, ran for Baton Rouge, and hoped for the best. Idiot!!!!

I have this image in my mind of a whole bunch of corrupt local fatcats sitting at their TVs on Sunday thinking, "holy shit, it's the Big One, we dodged it for years while telling all the poor bastards we were preparing for it, and they're all gonna die because we put all the money in our own pockets. I had best get the hell out of Dodge."

[kenth]

Some did, but some whites did too. A lot of people ignored the order. But, all those who went to the Superdome can be considered as those who wanted out. Had they made buses available to take people out of the city before the storm hit, those people could all have been on them. The Superdome could have been left open for those who initially decided not to evacuate.

[G.Mason]

"Too bad they had no buses."

That's for sure!

King Nagin to knaves: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"

Knaves : " I'm afraid they all drowned in the parking lot, your highass".

[backhoe]

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