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On Aug 30, 1:23 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
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no the feds had the responsibility.
and 100 school buses that hold 40 people aren't going to evacuate a
city
of several hundred thousand.

nothing is ever the chimps fault is it.

But...Bush had all of years of "executive experience," as a business
executive and governor, and, of course, all that "military experience."

What he didn't have and doesn't have is judgment. and neither does
McCain.

That situation was totally screwed up from the beginning. Seems to me
Bush
initially did what he was supposed to ..... make federal help available,
but
the operational decisions were left up to local and state governments, as
they should have been. Bush earned the reputation of being too late to
act
because the locals dragged their feet. If I recall correctly, Bush had
to
*order* them to start an evacuation.

Eisboch

I read the Hurricane plans for NO and they called for the city to
order an evacuation, not the feds, Ray is simply wrong. Lets do the
math (a difficult thing for a Dem). 100 busses each carrying 60
people can carry 6000 people in one trip. 4 trips in one day would
give 24000 people. Pvt autos could take out another 100,000 people if
they had been ordered to evac when the Bush admin asked Blanco to do
so. Pvt bus lines could easily have carried another 25000 people.
Airlines could have carried another 25000 ppl. If the evac had been
done when their own plans called for it to be done, there would have
been no problem. Nagin and Blanco ignored their own plan. The feds
had no authority to order an evac, the authority was given to Nagin
and Blanco in the plan.

do the math. and then you make up fake numbers.

At a news conference at 10:00 a.m. on August 28, shortly after Katrina was
upgraded to a Category 5 storm, New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin ordered the
first ever mandatory evacuation of the city, calling Katrina "a storm that
most of us have long feared."[25] The city government also established
several "refuges of last resort" for citizens who could not leave the city,
including the massive Louisiana Superdome, which sheltered approximately
26,000 people and provided them with food and water for several days as the
storm came ashore.[26]

Staff Writer."26,000 shelter at Superdome." Times-Picayune. August 28, 2005.
Retrieved on 2006-06-05.



"In a September 26, 2005 hearing, former FEMA chief Michael Brown testified
before a U.S. House subcommittee about FEMA's response. During that hearing,
Representative Stephen Buyer (R-IN) inquired as to why president Bush's
declaration of state of emergency of August 27 had not included the coastal
parishes of Orleans, Jefferson, and Plaquemines.[15] (In fact, the
declaration did not include any of Louisiana's coastal parishes, whereas the
coastal counties were included in the declarations for Mississippi[16] and
Alabama.[17]) Brown testified that this was because Louisiana Governor
Blanco had not included those parishes in her initial request for aid, a
decision that he found "shocking." After the hearing, though, Blanco
released a copy of her letter, which requested assistance for "all the
southeastern parishes including the New Orleans Metropolitan area and the
mid state Interstate I-49 corridor and northern parishes along the I-20
corridor that are accepting [evacuated citizens]."[18]



1.. ^ "[1]." Governor Blanco asks President to Declare an Emergency for
the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina. August 27, 2005. Retrieved
on 2007-09-01.