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We Shut Down the Bridge
Washington Times & UPI via NRO ^
| Sep. 9, 2005
| Shaun Waterman
Posted on 09/09/2005 11:06:37 AM PDT by hipaatwo
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To: dirtboy
So why didn't Sheppard Smith just call the Red Cross and tell us why they said they couldn't deliver food and water. He is a reporter isn't he?
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:45:17 AM PDT
by
Tarpon
To: dirtboy; Mo1
Rush is reading this now. Ok I want to know his freep name!
To: Tarpon
I want the truth first, is that too much to ask? What you are injecting here is demonstrated to not be truthful. The bridge was closed long after the hurricane was gone.
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:45:38 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: silverleaf
That bridge was not a Gretna city street, so shouldn't this police chief be facing state or federal charges?
To: hipaatwo
Rush is hitting on this right now.
105
posted on
09/09/2005 11:45:45 AM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
To: IronMan04
After a storm the bridges must be inspected.After the evac.
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:45:55 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: plain talk
Good points.
And wouldn't the whole point of La emergency management plans be to cover these situations?
This area's had hurricane evacs before. No one noticed this 'til now? Very unlikely.
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:46:25 AM PDT
by
hlmencken3
("...politics is a religion substitute for liberals and they can't stand the competition")
To: IronMan04
Foot traffic across a causes a bridge to carry a weight load which is greater than vehicle traffic.What kind of IDIOCY is that? This bridge carried fully-loaded trucks.
You're pulling stuff out of your a** now to defend this.
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:46:29 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: IronMan04
the Crescent City bridge was inspected...by FEMA.
To: andyk
Rush not totally blaming Lawson. Yup, let's save the property. Sigh.
110
posted on
09/09/2005 11:46:50 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: andyk
Did Rush just agree with the police?
To: Al Gator
Why couldn't he and his force guide people THROUGH his city and on their way? Why leave them trapped in NO?
To: Tarpon
So why didn't Sheppard Smith just call the Red Cross and tell us why they said they couldn't deliver food and water. He is a reporter isn't he?You aren't interested in the truth. You want to spin this away.
Shep was there and saw the suffering. People could have been let out on foot. They weren't.
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:47:42 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: hipaatwo
114
posted on
09/09/2005 11:47:42 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
To: hipaatwo
115
posted on
09/09/2005 11:47:45 AM PDT
by
Mo1
To: WestTexasWend
Gee, ask Governor "Blubbers" Blank-O. I think she would consider it to be "her" bridge.
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:48:08 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
To: hardworking
Well, I and 800,000 other people evacuated from Manhattan to Queens on foot on September 11, 2001.
The police conducted the whole thing with complete calm and professionalism and I didn't see a single person get injured or menaced.
When a few people tried to start trouble verbally, the police let them know that they would regret it if they didn't shut their mouths.
Apparently I work in the only major city in the US with a competent police force.
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posted on
09/09/2005 11:48:30 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave troops and their Commander in Chief)
To: hipaatwo
US 90 was open right on through Gretna and westward toward Baton Rouge -- it would have been an easy matter to drive buses out of New Orleans and....
Oh.
I forgot. Mayor Nagin doesn't know how to drive a school bus...
Damn.
My bad...
118
posted on
09/09/2005 11:48:42 AM PDT
by
mhking
(The world needs a wake up call gentlemen...we're gonna phone it in.)
To: dirtboy
The story at the bridge could easily have been woven in from reports like what shep said. I could write one heck of a believable, fictional story out of all of these reports.
Do you believe the police started shooting over 500 people's heads on Tuesday before they even talked to them? ...and that oif they did, a few of the enlightened ones were able to creep up on these shooting police and engage them enough to get such a story?
Read the entire report from the two so-called journalists and tell me if you think that is how it really went down. If you do...then we simply disagree because I do not.
119
posted on
09/09/2005 11:48:42 AM PDT
by
Jeff Head
(www.dragonsfuryseries.com)
To: hipaatwo
Did Rush just agree with the police?
It was hard to tell; it sounded like he was just reading from the article, but I was busy FReeping...
120
posted on
09/09/2005 11:48:54 AM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
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