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FEMA Pilot: Rescue Began Just Hours After Flood
NewsMax ^ | 9/6/05 | NewsMax

Posted on 09/06/2005 8:15:54 AM PDT by wagglebee

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The left has now conveniently forgotten the footage of people being rescued that was being shown live all day last Tuesday.
1 posted on 09/06/2005 8:15:54 AM PDT by wagglebee
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To: wagglebee

Bump for the good guys...


2 posted on 09/06/2005 8:17:25 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: wagglebee

The left has their agenda..


3 posted on 09/06/2005 8:17:27 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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"FEMA Pilot: Rescue Began Just Hours After Flood"

You KNEW this


4 posted on 09/06/2005 8:18:55 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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The 17th Street levee had begun to give way late in the evening Monday. Well into Tuesday, city officials were celebrating reports that the brunt of Hurricane Kartrina had missed the Big Easy.

"Let the Celebratory drinking begin in the French Quarter! We dodged yet another bullet! The Voodoo worked!"

5 posted on 09/06/2005 8:19:45 AM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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To: Mrs Zip

ping


6 posted on 09/06/2005 8:21:19 AM PDT by zip (Remember: DimocRat lies told often enough become truth to 48% of all Americans (NRA))
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To: wagglebee

So FEMA was saving lives instead of serving hot meals to those idiots befowling themselves in the Superdome. Shame.


7 posted on 09/06/2005 8:22:52 AM PDT by Poincare
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To: Poincare

befouling perhaps?


8 posted on 09/06/2005 8:23:50 AM PDT by Poincare
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To: wagglebee

This is the part of the story that is so quickly and conveniently forgotten by those whose only objective is to "bash Bush".

The first rescue helicopters (apparently the only conveyance that could have been able to arrive in the very short span of time after the levees burst) were driven off by shots fired from the ground, PREVENTING any serious rescue effort until the reinforcements arrived.


9 posted on 09/06/2005 8:25:05 AM PDT by alloysteel ("Master of the painfully obvious.....")
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To: Poincare

LOL!


10 posted on 09/06/2005 8:26:05 AM PDT by American Butterfly
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To: Poincare
befouling perhaps?

Were they perhaps throwing chickens at each other? :=)

11 posted on 09/06/2005 8:26:39 AM PDT by Bob
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To: wagglebee

Why doesn't the left put the blame where it really belongs, France.


12 posted on 09/06/2005 8:26:58 AM PDT by hflynn ( Soros wouldn't make any sense even if he spelled his name backwards)
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To: sheik yerbouty

Yes. But this time they really did have the assistance, and the wholesale, blind and unconditional assistance of the MSM which has pandered to the Liberal speakers and officials and which has perpetuated unofficial and spurious reports in the most shameful and irresponsible way. No Liberal mis statements or groundless conjecture has been challenged in my hearing. The MSM has actually outdone itself in the storm reporting compared to its reporting of the last national election in the US. If you thought the MSM could not outdo itself in its blatant bias reporting the last major political campaigns and national election you were wrong. These guys now have NO credibility are completely and I think, permanently unaccountable.


13 posted on 09/06/2005 8:28:40 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else." Lucius Septimus Severus)
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wonder why this report only appears on NEWSMAX... not AP, not Reuters, not CNN, and not even on the all mighty, FauxNews


14 posted on 09/06/2005 8:28:52 AM PDT by fhlh (.)
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To: wagglebee

The USCG was working once the winds went down enough to do so. By the first 24 hours, they'd worked literally around the clock, day and night, rescuing over 2,000 people, one person at a time. I'm just furious about the complaints of delay. Those Coasties risked their lives--hovering a helicopter in the dark in an area where there are powerlines and all manner of possible hazards can only be described as "heroic." And many of the pilots INSISTED on working round the clock.

I really, truly, despise the race-baiting, lying, conniving, dishonest pieces of scum that pass for the Democrat party.


15 posted on 09/06/2005 8:31:26 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: SMARTY

They are "no accounts" in many people's eyes..


16 posted on 09/06/2005 8:31:45 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: frogjerk
"Let the Celebratory drinking begin in the French Quarter! We dodged yet another bullet! The Voodoo worked!"

Voodoo,

Voodoo,

Voodoo you think you're foolin'?

17 posted on 09/06/2005 8:31:59 AM PDT by savedbygrace ("No Monday morning quarterback has ever led a team to victory" GW Bush)
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To: MizSterious

I remember watching live last Tuesday when they were rescuing people from rooftops, etc. But it's funny that the media isn't showing any of that footage anymore.


18 posted on 09/06/2005 8:33:42 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: alloysteel

Those weren't the "first" rescuers. The first ones were out there once the winds died down enough to fly a helicopter. The snipers didn't start until almost a day later. Nevertheless, the malice was just stunning--shooting at one's own rescuers? What madness. I would have forgiven the rescuers, all of them, had they just said, "Ok, it's all yours then." And left them to rot in the disease and filth.


19 posted on 09/06/2005 8:34:31 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: wagglebee

Hey....apologists for Bush can't have it both ways. First, they tell us that FEMA is not a first responder. Now, they tell us that was on the job from the beginning.


20 posted on 09/06/2005 8:35:48 AM PDT by Captain Kirk
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