CNN ping to the Today show ping list. A Democrat accuses Bush administration of "murdering" thousands in Louisana.
The Lousiana area needs to be turned into a temporary regional military area under military disaster recovery procedures run by Giuliani, Schwartzkopf or Colin Powell. Blanco, Nagin, and now this unbalanced chap can sit by on the sidelines and watch the response, and get counseling.
Bless your heart
Sounds very much like Broussard is trying desparately to cover his butt. As president, it's his job to see that there's not only a plan in effect, but also that it's carried out to protect his people. Sorry, Bro, but the buck stops at your feet.
Let them all scream and make asses of themselves now. As the facts come out, I believe the most damning material will be about the local and state authorities, although the Bushies will not look particularly good.
Isn't this the guy who refused to let the Red Cross into his Parrish because it was too dangerous due to the gangsters?
Did I get that right?
Democrat foot in mouth disease. Hillary'd better be careful as she demands a 9/11 type commission to assign blame.
Murder? That's a strong allegation and they better have plenty proof of that because the local Gov and Mayor of N.O. LA may just be the "murderers" after all is said and done.
Repeating falsehoods over and over (that FEMA failed miserably) does not change the reality that it was the LOCAL officials who did not follow their own evacuation plans and use the means available to them in those golden hours before the fury of the storm struck. And with the attention showered on New Orleans and surrounding areas, much-needed assistance was diverted from other much less densely populated areas, that suffered proportionately even more damage than that singular stretch of swampland (that never should have been built on) on the Louisiana Gulf Coast.
This bawling clown is under investigation for embezzling funds already, and that's before the feds look into what happened to the FEMA preparedness funds. That story he was blubbering about on CNN about the old lady "drownding" (LA parish presidents don't have to speak English) in the nursing home sounds very fishy since the water wasn't rising after it reached the level of Lake Pontchartrain on Thurs. Wonder who drowned her on Friday night? It wasn't Pres. Bush.
" the CNN interviewere did not call Broussard on his outrageous accusation that the Bush administration had "murdered" thousands of its citizens"
Heck, why should he? Some idiot on t.v. with Mike Myers the other day (nbc, I think) named Kanyeah (sp?) went off about the war in iraq and concluded that the President is a murderer, all on live TV for a relief effort plug. Disgusting.
This interview encapsulates EXACTLY what the problem is that state and WHY Hurricane Katrina became such a huge disaster there. Will anyone get it? Fat chance.
This guy's story sounds fishy.
They were able to talk to that officials mother for 4 days and none of them could hop in a boat and go pick her up?
I saw that interview and this guy was trying to absolve the LA Governor and blame this entirely on the Federal Government.
I figured he was a Democrat, but now the confirmation of it proves that this guy was put up to this. He was reading a script for pete's sake.
I am surprised, especially with the elected state officials, that they seem to forget that states are autonomous entities. The FEDS can't come in without the request of the Governor.
And even now, the Governor, apparently, keeps refusing to allow FED agencies to come in and do what needs to be done.
The Governor is apparently more concerned with trying to save her political career than in helping the people who need aid and assistance.
These people are not leaders--they are a bunch of shivering pansies.
That Aaron guy had a terribly sad story, to be sure...but that isn't the issue, in my opinion. Leadership should be shown in these times--and crying like a baby on national tv is not a sign of leadership.
They're exploiting it every and any way they can, starting with the absurd position that the storm - or its ferocity, depending on who you're listening to - was caused by Bush not signing the Kyoto Treaty. From there it's a plethora of allegations, from slow response because of all the troops and NG deployed in Iraq, to this.
"Round and round it goes, where it stops nobody knows." As long as they can make this crap up, it'll keep getting flung about, much as a monkey in a zoo, or for that matter an incarcerated terrorist at Gitmo, flings crap from its cage.