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Yep. You are absolutely right. Bush acted perfectly...no problem. The feds have no responsibility to save lives if the state structure fails....Do I have the latitude to denigrate your opinion?...Go stuff it. We will see how this sorts out but thank goodness it won't be sorted by folks who are so wrapped up in Bush worship they can't see the truth. It would have been enough for me if he had acted to send in the MPs two days before he did on Thursday. That means Tuesday PM when it was clear things were seriously broken and the Governor was not going to get it together. They would have been in the city Wednesday and the debacle at the Superdome, Convention Center and other places in the city would not have happened. It would have been enough for me if Tuesday FEMA had used Chinooks to airlift food and water in the massive amounts that had been prepositioned to the Superdome. That would have been enough for me..for starters...The fact that the LANG was not prepared to assume security is a MAJOR deficiency that was visible very early on and that is where the support from the feds was truly lacking. I don't blame Bush for anything in this whole mess except that last point. The FEMA thing has the hand prints of Congress all over it. But not putting down the insurrection is something Bush should have moved on fast. It inhibited all other necessary activity. Period. If that seems "silly" to you, too d@mn bad. At least now he is fully engaged and performing well.

Don't let your ignorance stop you from spouting your opinion.

How many Chinooks does FEMA own?

Under what authority can the President send in troops?

Looting and insurrection are not the same.

Your sarcasm about Bush worship won't fit when you talk to me 'cause cannot substantiate it from anything that I've ever written on FR about him. I didn't even vote for him the first time. Sarcastically claiming that he worked 'perfectly' is the type of immature comment reserved normally for children.

But unlike you I know a bit about emergency management and working in austere conditions.

FEMA is a SUPPLEMENTAL not primary relief source. They are not intended to be on the spot in the first 72 hours.

Other state's national guard cannot just go into LA without the governor's invitation. She didn't do it when she should have.

The result is that the state and local folks failed abominably and folks like you, Al Sharpton, Hillary, etc took pot shots at the wrong target.

Continue keeping your mind free from facts on this.