Posted on 09/06/2005 5:56:44 PM PDT by bobsunshine
If true, who's fault is that? Oh right, Bush's.
Just curious, but are you smoking something?
I agree with the general content of your overview "You can't just snap your fingers and make this all happen. It takes time."
Would you state if Rudy, or someone of similar leadership caliber, would have acted 'differently' then the current head of FEMA.
"If you're going to persist in bashing FEMA's response to the Katrina disaster, please come up with at least a modicum of evidence to support your inane argument. If you can."
Where to start?
How about this?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478776/posts?page=50#27
Or what about the fellow at the end of this article:
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It wasn't until Friday that immense amphibious vehicles first carried tons of water and supplies through the flooded streets of New Orleans to trapped victims huddled downtown.
But the questions on everyone's lips remained: "What took so long and why are those people still there?"
Federal authorities had few clear answers Friday to calm a growing national anxiety about the plight of New Orleans residents stranded at the Superdome and elsewhere in the city after Hurricane Katrina struck the city Monday.
"It's an extraordinarily frustrating situation," Russ Knocke, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, said Friday. "We're bringing in supplies with every faculty and resources at our disposal."
Federal officials have said that same thing every day since Tuesday, yet the people displaced from their homes tell a different story.
"We were stuck in our house for 2½ days," said a sweaty and furious Donna Simmons who sat alongside Interstate 10 outside the city. "Our neighbor took his boat out and rescued us. The Coast Guard said they would come back, but they never came back. No police, no National Guard, nobody."
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff blamed the delay in aid on the one-two punch of Hurricane Katrina's winds and then the catastrophic flood that covered New Orleans after levees were breached by a rising Lake Pontchartrain.
"For those who wondered why it is difficult to get these supplies and teams into place, they are battling an ongoing dynamic problem with the water," Chertoff said at a press conference.
Nevertheless, television, print and radio reporters were able to make it in and out of the hardest hit areas of Louisiana and Mississippi throughout the week, adding to a sense of disbelief about what was holding the government back.
The frustration appeared to have reached President Bush, who flew to the region Friday.
"I'm not satisfied with all the results," Bush said during a stop in Biloxi, Miss.
I for one think the entire post-Katrina response totally rocked. And that's coming from someone who rarely, if ever, thinks the government does anything right.
Thanks Coop
"Do you really want to say that FEMA should have feed them before they evacuated their homes?"
Those at the Convention center were away from their homes for 5- 6 days w/ no food or water.
Oh no, the President was happy as a clam with Brown.... - Give me a break, does the President have to spell it out for you?
Maybe your question should be "Would Rudy have responded differently if he were mayor of New Orleans?"
The heads of FEMA and Homeland must go.
You have lost so many arguments on this thread and yet you continue to spout half truths,supposition,quotes from left wing clueless Bush haters. The last straw is quoting Broussard. Nobody is going to post to you anymore, because you do not get it, you are clueless about Fema and First responders. I spent 22 years as part of First responders and you don't have the slightest idea what you are talking about. Post to yourself last responder, and keep digging that hole.
Aha; troll #2(and counting). In your wildest dreams do you think it's possible Bush may have been alluding to La. "officials"? He intimated as much in one of his talks today. I expect most missed the little one sentence item though.
Maybe FEMA needs to establish a "disaster college" for incompetent state executives. Want to guess who might be the first two on the list? Full scholarships too.
"Stop worrying about the Dems"
Oh you mean the dems that let the communists kill 100 million in the last century? - The ones that snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in Viet Nam - or do you mean the Dems that invented the Welfare State that sentenced generations of poor to generations of being poor?
Lack of real leadership in a time a maximum crisis for our nation.
His bawling told me even he realized that he ought to have done the same thing.
I would have too. A friend's mother is on the verge of dying and they don't do anything? Something just doesn't compute.
Unmitigated troll language. You're a phony.
They knew about it because it was on television.
I don't know about you, but I don't want to have the government making decisions based on what's on television--the same medium that told us that New Orleans police had shot five contractors on Sunday. The local authorities should have informed FEMA, and they failed, and you're letting them off the hook.
Read 243 and have a nice day too.
And I am confident that our President will do the right thing and accept the resignations of those that were asleep at the wheel.
The Hurricane hit on Sunday - nobody had turkey dinner that night and that means sun, mon, tues, wedn, thurs/fri/
The Pres declared a State of Emergency on Sat and that is when Chertoff and Brown should have went to work.
Bush did not want to hear 5 DAYS LATER that they did not know that "there was a problem at the convention center".
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