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None of this is President Bush's fault. But I want certain facts nailed down legally before I commit to blaming Blanco for stopping the Red Cross. I want proof. And I want credible justification for doing so. If there is proof that she stopped the Red Cross, and there is insufficient justification, then she needs to resign or at least answer to Congress.

I agree, but I think most of the blame belongs in Nagin's lap. The full force of the storm missed New Orleans, it was the flooding that did all the damage and Nagin knew about the Levee's and his own Evacuation plan called for the use of city owned Buses and yet he never deployed them to remove the most vulnerable in his City to safe ground.

The Governor is simply not capable of leading, and the Mayor is even less of a leader

The Red Cross leaders have said on the Larry King show that the La Homeland Defense People have kept them out of La..

Below is reply to this thread where shield links us to the Red Cross's site and they detail that they have been kept out.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479829/posts?page=56#56

SEE WHAT THE RED CROSS SAYS ON THEIR WEB SITE:
Hurricane Katrina: Why is the Red Cross not in New Orleans?

Access to New Orleans is controlled by the National Guard* and local authorities and while we are in constant contact with them, we simply cannot enter New Orleans against their orders.

The STATE Homeland Security Department had requested--and continues to request--that the American Red Cross not come back into New Orleans following the hurricane. Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.

http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html

56 posted on 09/07/2005 8:26:31 PM PDT by shield (The Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God!!!! by Dr. H. Ross, Astrophysicist)

And I want credible justification for doing so

There would be credible justification IF the evacuation plan had been implimented.

The justification would be that if the plan had been implimented AND everyone who could get out on the buses was already out, AND it was too late to send the buses back to pick up the stragglers AND the only possible way out was to walk, THEN you wouldn't want to have food and water in a place where they might think they were safe. At that point, you would want the few stragglers to attempt to walk out because it would be far safer than to remain in the city.

However, the evacuation buses were never utilized and I want to know why.