#23 Postby camilletider » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:01 am
Granted that many of us are frustrated by the level of human suffering and are not asking the all the right questions in all the right ways but I have a few that I believe are reasonable:
Yes, I know Mr Bush can't step in until the Governor makes it official and asks for the National Guard and Federal Aid all that slop. I'm not sure of the exact date but I believe that was done a few days ago. Even if the Louisiana people drug their feet about it, the sheer scope of human suffering should have had the President and a few of his neccessary officials ready to act the minute they were called upon for at least the few following acts.
You are going to tell me that the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States of America could not have at least:
1) Had a few Blackhawk's loaded with water at the very least and perhaps even some food and a few basic medical supplies lifted to the islands of stranded people. The newspeople it seems to me, and I am no fan of the press, shamed them into finally delivering some water in this method to some of the massed islands people at various places on I-10. BUT NOT UNTIL THURSDAY? GIVE ME A BREAK!
2) Depending on when aid was requested, could not a few platoons of armed guardsmen placed around the Superdome? How about some Special Forces units to protect the hospitals when they came under fire? If one of our embassies came under attack we would get some kind of unit of this nature on site so fast it would make your head swim.
3) The failing pattern here is, that for some unknown reason, the government all the way up to its Commander in Chief is hiding behide some insane ideal that everything must be done all at once in huge lumps or not at all. All the self-congradulation, buck passing, excuse making, and general bs is not going to change the fact that just a few small common sense steps to preserve basic human needs of food, water, and just some presence on the ground to make a statement that order will be kept would have went a long way.
Go ahead. Tell me about this law and this barrier and whatever else was in the way but think about it. Over the course of this weekend and first few days could not just these few leaders have jumped through whatever hoops were neccessary? Just how much guidance in the form of discussion back and forth would it have taken. Surely the Governor and Mayor would have listened to whatever laundry list was required of them to receive the proper Federal aid quickly. If not it was obviously their fault but I wonder just how forthcoming these discussions were from the Federal side. If the Feds saw they were not trained and didn't know the drill, for the sake of the people in NO they should have bent over backwards to expedite the situation ANY WAY THEY COULD. What was lacking while many are suffering horrifically? Simple human will power and that is why many in America are furious with her leaders.
Another thing to consider:
_The first forecast that actually had NO directly in the bullseye did not come out until Friday night. No one, and I mean on one, could have evacuated that city in that amount of time. That as many got out as they did without a hundred wrecks and shootings means someone did something right. I lived in NO for six months and I never thought they could even come close to evacuation in less than five days.
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