MUST READ (We should all e-mail this to our Senators/Reps tomorrow -- Republicans need to come out fighting):
NO SHAME
THE FEDERAL RESPONSE TO KATRINA WAS NOT AS PORTRAYED
Jack Kelley
Sunday, September 11, 2005
It is settled wisdom among journalists that the federal response to the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina was unconscionably slow.
"Mr. Bush's performance last week will rank as one of the worst ever during a dire national emergency," wrote New York Times columnist Bob Herbert in a somewhat more strident expression of the conventional wisdom.
But the conventional wisdom is the opposite of the truth.
Jason van Steenwyk is a Florida Army National Guardsman who has been mobilized six times for hurricane relief. He notes that:
"The federal government pretty much met its standard time lines, but the volume of support provided during the 72-96 hour was unprecedented. The federal response here was faster than Hugo, faster than Andrew, faster than Iniki, faster than Francine and Jeanne."
You can read the rest of the story at
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05254/568876.stm
WOW . . . While this Flight 93 movie is difficult to watch, it's an absolute must see!
Night all!
Thanks again Deb, for great info. I will definately be sharing this with a few folks. Ummmm, Boxer and DiFi come to mind!
Thanks as always for your great article finds! I've told several people about the "real" story behind the response and they're all surprised by the utter failure of the mayor and governor.
Hope you had a good day. I watched several shows about 9/11 and what led up to it and what happened today; I do not think I could bear to watch the movie about Flight 93. God bless every innocent who lost their life that day, and those who miss them.
DrDeb, thank you SO much for that link. I've been saying the federal response was NOT SLOW from the beginning. Trying every which way to get the truth out as best I can from the grassroots. I agree. We must send this to Republican congress-critters, as well as to every newspaper and TV station we can think of. The MSM has maligned a magnificent job by federal first responders who saved thousands of lives.
Thank you, Link Lady, for that article.
If I hadn't seen Brit Hume back Juan down on Fox News Sunday this Morning, I would have begun to think that even Fox News got it wrong.
I have to think that some of the folks on FNC have read Wolfstar's most excellent pictorial essay - and gotten even their own misguided thinking straightened out.
Does anyone but me remember that FEMA didn't show up in Charleston after Hugo for a MONTH, and they had already been busy with their chainsaws, helping each other get the trees off of their houses, off of their streets, before the National Guard or FEMA showed up!!!!
Okay, okay, maybe since Charleston was a huge Navy port at the time, and a LOT of the residents of Charleston were US Navy (by younger brother was there at the time, BTW) they had the advantange of a lot of "Navy-types" around who are pretty self-sufficient, and who know how to help each other.