Two things about that statement. First of all, there are AP wire pictures of helicopters delivering MRE's and water to the people at the convention center on Thursday. That was the first day anyone bothered to tell federal authorities that there were people at the Convention Center. It was also the first day news reports appeared that people were at the convention center. As late as Friday, media idiots like Geraldo were reporting that people at the Convention Center had received no food or water. That was a blatant lie, as pictures showed pallet after pallet of water and MRE's being distributed to people there before Geraldo even showed up. Please do not bite off on the distorted picture you are getting from the media. As you are fully aware from events at Fallujah, the picture provided by the media is so fuzzy and unreliable that it is safer to assume it is wrong than right. Friday was 4 days since the hurricane left and 3 days since the major flooding hit. If anybody was in that Convention Center for five days without food or water, it is clearly not the fault of FEMA or the military. A better question would be, why was anyone directed there at all (it was not a planned shelter), and if the city directed them there, why did the city not supply provisions for at least one or two days. Again, your frustration here is being misdirected.
My gripe is that life-saving is job #1 and the relief effort was mis-directed.
I will never forget the video of the woman that died in her wheel chair while news crews drove in and out of the city freely.