[M. Espinola]

"Maybe your question should be "Would Rudy have responded differently if he were mayor of New Orleans?"

I believe we are cognizant of the answer on the local level as well as the federal - far better.

[ForGod'sSake]

Hey guys, this thread needs your troll power. Care to play?

Or how about here or here?

I think you'll find some convincing arguments that pretty much turn yours into so much detritus.

[defenderSD]

The main cause of the heavy loss of life from Katrina was that New Orleans' emergency plan for a flood was incomplete and inadequate and their implementation of this plan was a cluster f***. Maybe we've reached the point where all local emergency plans have to be approved by FEMA (because of incompetent local officials), but at this time that isn't required by law.