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09-15-2005, 09:35 PM
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You've got to read this.....
 • On Friday night, August 26, 2005 before the Hurricane hit, Max Mayfield of the National Hurricane Center took the unprecedented action of calling Mayor Nagin of New Orleans and Louisiana Governor Blanco personally to plead with them to begin MANDATORY evacuation of New Orleans and they said they’d take it under consideration. This was after the NOAA buoy 240 miles south had recorded 68’ waves before it was destroyed. > • President Bush spent Friday afternoon and evening in meetings with his advisors and administrators drafting all of the paperwork required for a state to request federal assistance (and not be in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act or having to enact the Insurgency Act). > • Just before midnight Friday evening the President called Governor Blanco and pleaded with her to sign the request papers so the federal government and the military could legally begin mobilization and call up. He was told that they didn’t think it necessary for the federal government to be involved yet. > • After the President’s final call to the governor she held meetings with her staff to discuss the political ramifications of bringing federal forces. It was decided that if they allowed federal assistance it would make it look as if they had failed so it was agreed upon that the feds would not be invited in. > • Saturday, August 27, before the Hurricane hit, the President again called Blanco and Nagin requesting they please sign the papers requesting federal assistance, that they declare the state an emergency area, and begin mandatory evacuation. > • After a personal plea from the President, Mayor Nagin agreed to order an evacuation, but it would not be a full mandatory evacuation, and the governor still refused to sign the papers requesting and authorizing federal action. In frustration the President declared the area a national disaster area before the state of Louisiana did so he could legally begin some advanced preparations. > • Rumor has it that the President’s legal advisers were looking into the ramifications of using the insurgency act to bypass the Constitutional requirement that a state request federal aid before the federal government can move into state with troops - but that had not been done since 1906 and the Constitutionality of it was called into question to use before the disaster. > • Throw in that over half the federal aid of the past decade to New Orleans for levee construction, maintenance, and repair was diverted to fund a marina and support the gambling ships. Toss in the investigation that will look into why the emergency preparedness plan submitted to the federal government for funding and published on the city’s website was never implemented and in fact may have been bogus for the purpose of gaining additional federal funding. As we now learn that the organizations identified in the plan were never contacted or coordinating into any planning, though the document implies that they were. > • The suffering people of New Orleans need to be asking some hard questions as do we all, but they better start with why Governor Blanco refused to even sign the multi-state mutual aid pack activation documents until Wednesday, August 31, which further delayed the legal deployment of National Guard from adjoining states. Or maybe ask why Mayor Nagin keeps harping that the President should have commandeered 500 Greyhound busses to help him when according to his own emergency plan and documents he claimed to have over 500 busses at his disposal • to use between the local school busses and the city transportation busses - but he never raised a finger to prepare them or activate them. • > • This is a sad time for all of us to see that a major city has all but been destroyed and thousands of people have died with hundreds of thousands more suffering, but it’s certainly not a time for people to be pointing fingers and trying to find a bigger dog to blame for local corruption and incompetence. Pray to God for the survivors that they can start their lives anew as fast as possible and we learn from all the mistakes to avoid them in the future. >> > Thanks, > Brenda If this is correct, the Govenor of LA has alot of answering to do to the people who got screwed........ What do you think, legit or not..........?? 
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09-15-2005, 10:42 PM
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They ALL failed: the mayor, the governor, and the federal government. They ALL share in the blame. The mayor failed for not having a proper evacuation plan in place. The governor failed for not asking for the aid sooner. The feds failed for not saying "F*%@K the Posse Comitatus Act -- these are incompetent people, and we're sending FEMA in right now and stage them outside the city." Absolutely no one is free of fault here...
There is no way, NO WAY that pictures of dead people floating around in sewage water should be coming from this country. That is what you see in third-world, war-ravaged countries, NOT in America. This simply should not happen here. Juan
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09-15-2005, 11:19 PM
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 For every great thing this country has achieved in its history, it seems like some horrible thing like this and Iraq seems like it would have happend from 2000-2008. I guarantee you that this will be remembered as one of the worst 8 years of American history in hindsight, many years from now.
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09-16-2005, 02:04 AM
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A well informed friend of mine read, I think in the Wall Street Journal, that Governor Blanco was caught thinking a mic was off during a press conference and was heard telling an aide that she screwed up and should have called for federal aid sooner. That came out and now she's kissing President Bush's rear end. (Did you hear her speech where she lavished praise on him?) She was quick to throw blame at the feds but when she was busted she had to start back peddling and mending fences.
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09-16-2005, 02:20 AM
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It's Bogus
It sounded totally bogus to me so I took a look on Snopes.com and, sure enough, it confirms that what is stated in the email as fact, isn't. It was written to try to divert attention away from the failings of Bush and the feds since they've been feeling the heat lately. http://www.snopes.com/politics/katrina/nagin.asp
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09-16-2005, 02:30 AM
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09-16-2005, 04:33 AM
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Pathetic, just pathetic. They ALL failed.
What really tics me off though is this. Both of them have said they accept responsibility for the failure, now let's move on. When I was a kid, and even in life now, accepting responsibility for my failures didnt prevent me from getting that good ol ass wupin...... Though I believe that it is not a failure of action on the Presiden't part, I mean he is not the head of disaster relief, it is a failure of his team. The longer he waits for people to quit, he becomes complicate in the failure. The hell with the bush family loyalty program. Fire some damn people, including that stupid Homeland Security Sec and anybody else who was in charge. As for the Guvner and Mayor, the people should vote there asses out of office when they can. Maybe Arnold can start a recall drive. Corruption Corruption Corruption The city of NO has been looted for years and not just by the thugs
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09-16-2005, 08:58 AM
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