On Aug 30, 1:23 pm, "Eisboch" wrote:
"hk" wrote in message

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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.