After eight straight days listening to pot-bellied armchair quarterbacks (in the media, on FreeRepublic and elsewhere) throwing mud on FEMA, the Coast Guard, Nat. Guard and the rescue crews, etc. --- I have no qualms about calling these critics every name in the book.
This was a monumental effort the likes of which we've never seen, and all some people can do is throw mud, as if THEY are know-it-all experts.
The way I saw it, FEMA's helicopters and trucks spent the first day or two of the crisis plucking out every person they could reach off rooftops and from the swirling waters with direct air and ground missions.
After they got the most precarious people, they switched over to transporting supplies while at the same time continuing to rescue people as they came across them.
These rescue personnel did a good job under the circumstances, and it is sickening to read critics day after day after day, especially those whose feet never evene got wet.
It was leadership that was lacking as well exemplified in Chertoff's incredibly weak interview here.
And, I do not watch MSM and from what I've heard their "criticisms" are ludicrous nonsense.