Comments on: Do you remember Anna Pou?

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 10:14:44 +0000

The first sentence of Kycol’s 14 nails it for me. Nagin, Blanco, Bush, all their minions — hell’s bells, we might as well have had those children reading “My Pet Goat” on 9/11 in their spots, for all the use they were.

By: curious georgette

curious georgette — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 02:54:24 +0000

Silly OWIL @3. Of course there is no investigation, or even anybody asking for an investigation, since Rove and the Justice Dept. weren’t involved . . .

By: Confounded

Confounded — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:36:38 +0000

KyCol: what a dark time.

By: Kycol

Kycol — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:05:25 +0000

But wait, there’s more.
Just out today.

FEMA delivers incomplete disaster housing strategy.
By EILEEN SULLIVAN, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 47 minutes ago
WASHINGTON – A year overdue, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a draft disaster housing strategy Monday, which leaves it largely up to the next administration to figure out a way to avoid Hurricane Katrina-like problems that sent victims to toxic trailers.
“What FEMA delivered today is a strategy without a plan,” said Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu, one of FEMA’s strongest critics regarding disaster housing.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080721/ap_on_go_ot/disaster_housing

By: Kycol

Kycol — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:06:38 +0000

As far as I am concerned the whole sorry bunch can go to Gitmo for life regardless of their party affiliation. Cheney’s puppet must have been down for restringing during Katrina. A man like Truman or Ike would not have put up with this sh*t for one day.

By: curious georgette

curious georgette — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:52:26 +0000

As others have noted, there is plenty of blame to go around. So, if somebody’s calling for people to go to jail, it needs to be a call for across the board going to jail. Othewise, it looks like partisan politics to me.

By: Kycol

Kycol — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:47:30 +0000

CG, I just told what I found, I didn’t make it up. I did not vote for anyone in NO or La. I did vote for an idiot in D. C., twice (mea culpa).There are some local culpabilities reported on the link. What did you find?

By: curious georgette

curious georgette — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:11:08 +0000

Kycol, are there any government officials in Lousiana that ought to be in prison, too? Given all the materials you have cited, surely there was some mention of state and city incompetence as well. I’m sure you saw the same photos of flooded out school buses that were never used to evacuate people prior to the hurricane, so surely you could come up with at least one example.

By: Kycol

Kycol — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:57:13 +0000

Obs, As should presidents, FEMA Directors and Homeland Security Chiefs.In addition to civil damages there is room for criminal charges in the Washington. Here is a compendium of Katrina failings that will increase you B/P.
http://www.benfrank.net/blog/katrina_lack_of_response_archive/#red_cross

By: Kycol

Kycol — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:51:08 +0000

A few notes on Katrina
After reading some of the following it is clear that there are some SOB’s still in Washington that belong in prison.
Question: Can an outgoing president pardon himself?
Here is the link for the following and a lot more.
http://www.benfrank.net/blog/katrina_lack_of_response_archive/#red_cross
Homeland Security won’t let Red Cross deliver food

Saturday, September 03, 2005
By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them to do the same.
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Airboaters stalled by FEMA
On standby since Monday, the pilots — many from Central Florida — have spent thousands of their own dollars stocking their boats and swamp buggies with food, water, medical supplies and fuel.

But the Federal Emergency Management Agency will not authorize the airboaters to enter New Orleans. Without that permission, they would be subject to arrest and would not receive security and support services.
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Paperwork from DC late to arrive- prevents National Guard from helping
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state’s National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn’t come from Washington until late Thursday.
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Daley ’shocked’ as feds reject aid
A visibly angry Mayor Daley said the city had offered emergency, medical and technical help to the federal government as early as Sunday to assist people in the areas stricken by Hurricane Katrina, but as of Friday, the only things the feds said they wanted was a single tank truck.
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Northern Command was in position, waiting for Presidential orders
We had the USS Baton sailing almost behind the hurricane so that after the hurricane made landfall it’s search and rescue helicopters would be available almost immediately. So we had things ready. The only caveat is, we have to wait until the President authorizes us to do so. The laws of the United States say that the military can’t just act in this fashion, we have to wait for the President to give us permission.
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FEMA prevents water, fuel delivery- cuts communication lines!
On Meet the Press, the president of Jefferson Parish in New Orleans, Aaron Broussard, said that FEMA turned away aid and cut their communication lines!
Ad Nauseum !