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Originally Posted by solletica
Or that the FACTS I posted (i. e. citations) about bush's bunglings (rejecting foreign aid, providing insufficient technical resources) were too much. . .
and the wonderful sanitation conditions that saved all those people!
A person's ignorance is measured by the competence of the people he/she voted for.
And as always, it speaks volumes. . .
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No one has denied that mistakes were made on a federal level but they began on a local and state level. Nagin failed to follow the Emergency Preparedness Plan which created many of the problems that the feds had to come clean up. You have seen the pictures of the buses sitting in the parking lot...he didn't use them. He didn't call for a mandatory evac until it was far too late and by then, anyone with the means to leave had already left, which included qualified bus drivers.
As for the sanitation, as I said before, that's to be expected when the city is under water. I never said that conditions in the Dome would be perfect but a lot more could have been done to prepare for the arrival of evacuees that everyone should have know would arrive. That's where they always end up! But Nagin failed to stockpile medical supplies, food, etc. even knowing that they were opening it up as a place for special needs people. As bad as the toilet facilities were though, the Dome was still much better than where the people came from and most should just been thankful that they made it there alive.
Despite the unsanitary conditions, only six deaths occurred there and yet there was at least 20,000 evacuees. How many more would have died had they not made it to the Dome????? Living conditions may not have been the best but it was better than dying.