[DTogo]

Maybe Canadian responders don't have to get the Governor's approval, hence they could just walk right in and do the job?

[sure_fine]

I saw the interview, that would be a sad note

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Of course, what the article omits includes: the governor wasn't saying "no", the Canadians' hands weren't tied by Posse Comitatus, and so on.

[hombre_sincero]

Why don't these propaganda mills ever publish the "reporter"'s email?

I have a nice short 2-word comment I wanted to send him.

[hardworking]

And is the MSM talking about this? I hope so. Sad, sad, sad and embarrassing day for us all. What a wake up call. Wonder who will hear it?

[mosquitobite]

Blanco wasn't afraid of the "power grab" by the Canadians. ;)

[Montfort]

Is the author related to that McCracken character on the John Boy and Billy Show?

[msnimje]

I flunked out of kindergarten, does that qualify me to a a journalist?

[pogo101]

The headline is B.S. It says the Canadian troops (to which we are grateful in any event, of course) "arrived in New Orleans" five days before domestic help arrived.

The body of the article says that the Canadian helpers were aiding St. Bernard parish, which had gone relatively un-helped because most of the (yes, already there) domestic helpers were focusing on New Orleans.

Well, duh. I'm grateful to the Canadians, but there were many more people trapped in NOLA than in St. Bernard parish, it would appear.

So we have a headline that's baldly inaccurate, so as to denigrate the domestic rescue efforts in NOLA.

[msnimje]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1479965/posts



In the words of Russ Honore, "THAT IS COMPLETE BS!"

[popdonnelly]

How did they get past the Governor?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Row boats can't navigate that fast.

[Blood of Tyrants]

St. Bernard Parish was home to 68,000 people but was virtually forgotten by U.S. officials who were concentrating their search and rescue efforts on New Orleans which is only a few kilometers away.

The one thing you can count on most is that the politicians will send help where the cameras are first.

[McGavin999]

Rescuers were working from the very first day. The Canadians just happened to be assigned to that sector. Sheesh, how stupid can you get?

[RangerVetNam]

If it was 5 full days before the other rescue workers arrived, then they got there before the hurricane hit and therefore were rescuing people before they needed rescuing! Pretty good, eh.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

The forty-six member Vancouver-based Urban Search and Rescue Team arrived in the St. Bernard Parish which lies east of New Orleans a full 5 days before American rescue units, and the volunteers worked 18-hour days rescuing 119 people in total.

This would mean that the Canadians arrived on August 25th, because the USS Bataan was there on August 30th.

I'm not buying this crap.

[kingu]

Whoa.. Hold on here. Wasn't this the fabled search and rescue team that was refused entry into the United States, that was sitting in Vancouver waiting for permission to come, that the liberal left kept beating the administration over the head with?

Gosh, glad they were busy working.

[mom-7]

I am getting sick of all the lies that are out there. Am I in a time warp or something? I saw coast guard helicopters last Tuesday afternoon pulling people out of the water, and the canadians got there before our military. Last time I checked the Coast Guard was a member of the USMilitary. Canadians got there 5 days before them, don't think so.

[ARealMothersSonForever]

Well, duhh.
I see the media making a big thing about the Mexicans headed to NO, via Laredo.
I think many Mexicans were there before FEMA, as well. If I had the wherewithall to google it, the headline would read:
Mexicans at the NO Convention Center MONTHS before Feds
:>)

[No Longer Free State]

The headline is bullshite. The canadians never went to New Orleans, and the airborne rescue was working the whole area long before the canadians got anywhere.