[Torie]

The locals have been head down, ostrich style, and I think FEMA has used their "all is well" estimates to plan their own operation.

I guess none of them watch television or listen to the radio. In any event, nobody has said "all is well" ever. They have said the precise opposite.

[jeffers]

Utter BS.

The governor was saying NO was under complete control for TWO DAYS, while hospitals and police stations were being overrun.

The local officials are STILL claiming that only 100,000 people stayed behind, while pre-storm estimates expected 600,000 and at least one report puts the figure as high as 800,000.

Any operation that goes in assuming police control of NO and 100,000 refugees will big down and fail if the umbers are mucvh higher and at this point, failure will be measured in terms of an extra 10,000 or more body count. The grace period is over. From here on out we have to execute.

[bvw]

We do have Soledad Obrainless overtalking the Director of FEMA, throwing words into his mouth, none of which were relevant to what he was saying except as to make him into a callous ogre and CNN replaying hisher words overlayed with images of crying staving children --- pure emotional propaganda of the worst kind.