Ok everyone please do not take this as a way for me to think Nagin is off the hook, either way he is guilty in my book.
That being said are we sure that all these decisions about not enforcing a mandatory evac for NO in the begining was Nagins idea... We have been witness over the days since Katrina came through of Nagin trying to do certain things within the city & Blanco shooting him down in public.
So the question I think that also needs to be asked & explored is this..., Did Blanco tell Nagin not to do the evac in the first place & then tell him to order it only after President Bush called her telling her to tell nagin to do so. Did she do/set things in motion beforehand to be able to lay blame elsewhere (on Nagin) if things went bad.
Like I said I'm not excusing Nagin one bit cause to me keeping ppl alive is more important then anything else, including my job. All I am saying is that Blanco has shown herself to be an extreme control freak & given that fact there may be much more that happened before Katrina came ashore then we know that could make this even more sickening then one would want to believe it could be.
I'm inclined to agree, Blanco is the one pulling the strings. The question is, who is pulling Blanco's strings?
Nagin had & has the power to call for an evacuation within his city. IOW, he didn't & doesn't have the power to send people & assets outside of the city. He needed/needs the state to evacuate people to areas outside of his jurisdiction. When people can & do evacuate on their own, their individual choice overcomes Nagin's limits on jurisdiction.