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Originally Posted by Mrs. M
If you graduated from a four year university, you've been robbed!
First of all, do you even understand what Posse Comitatus is? A police force isn't what was needed right after Katrina, rescue efforts were!
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The rescue efforts provided by the Coast Guard were inadequate,
Clearly, the US military's resources would've come in handy.
And the notion that Posse Comitatus is even
relevant (which so many right wing posters have attempted to argue here), i. e. that NOLA and/or the state of LA would've raised a legal objection to the US military helping out is
also completely ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by Mrs. M
The US Coast Guard was on the job immediately and no one should argue that fact but further assistance was needed because of the idiots, Blanco and Nagin, that were in office at the time.
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Even if they did all they could do, the resources of the state and city would've been inadequate. To alleviate it, several nations provided modern ships, etc. to aid in evacuation but those were swiftly turned away by the airhead-in-chief. . .
First Draft: Bush Administration Turned Down Post Katrina Foreign Aid
It also didn't help that the airhead-in-chief had some
3000 of LA's national guard troops deployed in his silly war in Iraq.
(although Blanco herself stupidly didn't make use of all the ones she had).
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Originally Posted by Mrs. M
They simply were not prepared but go ahead and remain ignorant if you want since you're obviously so good at it. I LIVED through the disaster and I KNOW for a fact that the majority of the blame lies with those two. In spite of sewer backups which is only natural when the city is under water, other measures could have been taken, such as stocking the Superdome with food, medicine, water, etc. which would have gone a long way in aiding the citizens that showed up there.
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Even with all that, the Superdome would've been inadequate. Residents were in the Superdome for several days without any adequate sanitation or policing. People were being robbed, raped, and killed there. Additional water, food, and medicine would've helped, but still inadequate.
BBC NEWS | Americas | Survivors reveal Superdome horror
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Originally Posted by Mrs. M
We've had threats of other hurricanes in this area and at that time, many showed up at the Dome. Nagin should have known that this would happen again but remember, this man didn't implement the city's disaster plan nor did he call for a mandatory evacuation until tropical force weather was upon us. But go ahead, blame Bush for everything...
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Sorry, another of your incorrect assumptions--I've already stated
repeatedly that Nagin and Blanco were to blame as well. . .
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Originally Posted by solletica
State/local officials didn't do everything they could
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Originally Posted by solletica
FEMA slept (as well as the NOLA mayor and Gov. Blanco, of course).
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Originally Posted by solletica
Blanco was a fool
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And incidentally, the incompetent Gov. Blanco was voted into office by a
predominantly Republican electorate !
I'm only arguing that Bush is
also to blame. Even assuming nothing else, given the scope of the disaster, it's the height of stupidity for the feds to simply assume the state and NOLA had everything under control. . .
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In a catastrophic disaster like Katrina, tens or hundreds of thousands of lives are immediately at risk. State and local resources are exhausted from the onset, and government leaders are unable to determine or communicate their priority needs. National resources need to show up in hours, not days, in unprecedented amounts regardless of the difficulties.
Learning Katrina's Lessons: Coast Guard Modernization Is a Must
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The appropriate thing for a leader to do would've been to be proactive, to not only just accept the foreign aid that came in but also
break the law and send in the US military immediately (to keep law and order and aid in evacuations),
because, as is brutally obvious, NOLA was certainly
not going to object to that.
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Originally Posted by Mrs. M
The appropriate thing to do would
those of us that know better will continue to laugh at your ignorance.
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Speaking of ignorance. . .
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Originally Posted by Mrs. M
A police force isn't what was needed right after Katrina
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and who did you vote for in 2000 and 2004? ?
"Can I quit now?"
