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Those people who drowned in the nursing homes because no bus was deplyed to help them, would no doubt question your sanity. Unfortunately, they are dead while you are straining rescue resources by not evacuating. You must be special.

[John Jamieson]

"you are straining rescue resources by not evacuating."

I believe you have misunderstood me somewhere along the line.

1. I don't believe, nor it did I at the time, that the Super Doom move any sense.

2. I believe that if the same (or many more) buses had been used to evacuate further more lives would have been saved. Whoever we still have all most exactly the same problem in NO as we do today, because many, many people would have refused to get on those buses.

3. It's very likely that many buses would have been caught in the storm.

I'm very proud of Bush's performance. The Federal gov had no and has never had any role in evacuations.