People dying in New Orleans streets

[NNN0LHI]

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1876802005

The people of New Orleans desperately begged for help as sick and injured disaster victims were dying on the streets.

Refugees demanded food and water as dead bodies piled up in the chaos and rescue crews were nowhere to be seen.

[JoFerret]

1. Visualize impeachment

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[azoth]

4. Oh that's been my mantra for quite some time.

It's overtaken om mani padme hum as my focus.

[Teaser]

5. Visualize an insurrection.

nt

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[jsamuel]

2. GOD HELP THEM!!!! This is GENOCIDE!!!

[cliss]

30. Yup. As Bush meets with cabinet officials,

he feels strangely good today. He sips some Ecuador coffee, and drinks some Perrier water as they review the situation down in N. Orleans.

"How much can they take?" Bush asks a FEMA official.

"I don't think much more, sir. The fatalities are WAY more than they initially estimated. We could see deaths over 100,000 at this rate".

"OK, send down about 50% of what they need. Then let's play the waiting game. We'll tell them it's on the way, hold on, we care about you".

Bush smiles. He knows he's getting a two-fer.

[demo dutch]

3. Cnn is reporting that a convoy with food/water will arrive in 30 min at

Convention Center.

[peacebuzzard]

6. 5 days late

and with orders to shoot and kill.
This totally sucks.

[jsamuel]

7. while denying international help too

[peacebuzzard]

8. unfrickinbelievable nightmare

[alarcojon]

11. Typical Bush hubris

Ever the fucking cowboy. Asswipe.

[ElectroPrincess]

22. Here we go with the "herd werk" comment when he's completely

gone stupid. I know when it's coming because he first gets that glazed "deer in the headlights" look.

Disgusting! I'm so embarrassed that this incompetent man is our President. Shameful!

[truth2power]

28. He's not a man. He's a THING!! n/t

[MisterP]

36. think the leadership'll decide to suddenly pull back to Little Rock

and lay out a story 'bout a pot-shot for the next few days?

[peacebuzzard]

10. I resent the residents being labeled "refugees" by the media.

the whole damn nation is mad I tell you. Sick sick sick nation of bigots.
these are citizens damn it citizens!!!!!

[scarlett1]

12. I've been calling them displaced persons

Although they are being treated by the Bush Administration like they are refugees.


- Why does Bush care more about Iraqi's than the poor in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast? - I don't know - but he does.

[peacebuzzard]

14. Just read a thread in GD about a new term. "American refugee"

There are just no words to describe this horror.

[JoFerret]

43. He cares about Iraqis??

Since when? I don't think so.

[VegasWolf]

13. Has Bushco started calling them "insurgents" yet? nt

[peacebuzzard]

15. I think the LA and MS governors have all but put the label on it

by they way they describe the consequences of the actions of this hungry, thirsty and wasted city trying to care for the old and babies themselves. It certainly isn't coming from them so far.

[Maggie_May]

16. Please vote

http://www.cnn.com/
Has President Bush done enough to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina?
Please email call your Representatives and let them know what a disgrace they our to all of us. Make this administration responsible for there incompetence!

[catmandu57]

17. They fixed it

I tried to vote a while ago and nothing registered.

[Lochloosa]

27. Try again

Has President Bush done enough to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina?

Yes 20% 1625 votes

No 80% 6379 votes

[JustSayNO 2 Sheeples]

18. Results

Right now, 80% are saying NO, he's not doing enough. Of course, those 20% who think he can do no wrong are voting too.

[Gregorian]

19. This is insanity. Just like NORAD on Sept. 11th.

They could have been on top of this from the very first moment the weather was detected. People were screaming about the lack of preparation the day before this happened.

But the Illegal Cheerleader is busy looting the Meddle East. So our troops and equipment are elsewhere.

This is yet another act of criminal neglect.

Step aside, Bush, Cheney, rove, and the rest of this illegal gang of thugs!

[cobaindrain]

20. Welcome to Baghdad

[ElectroPrincess]

21. Bush just said, I want to tell people in "this part of the world"?!?

Bush is one ill man, both physically and mentally = presenile dementia. Who is REALLY running our country?

[ElectroPrincess]

23. Shit! Again, he's gone stupid, "We will rebuild this part of the WORLD?

How about your homeland?!? How about the American States of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana. Moron! Please please don't let him talk anymore? I can't handle the shame and embarrassment that THIS MAN is, in fact, Our President. :cry:

[melody]

32. yet more proof

He sees this country as just one little part of the world and not as his own country.

[VegasWolf]

34. "Rebuild this part of the WORLD" What a fucking idiot! nt

[Gregorian]

24. Rumsfeld

Am I running the country? Yes I am. Am I the president? No, I'm not. Will bush be impeached? Maybe.

[Geo55]

25. GLOBILIZATION.......you people are only a "problem"

to be dealt with....if we can minimize the cost to "us"

[Endangered Specie]

26. Just as the mayor said

http://www.atypical.net/mm/nagin.mp3

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[calimary]

37. A car doesn't get you anywhere when you can't afford the gas.

And their references to "house" often reflects a shack, a crowded little apartment. "The projects." In fact, that's what I heard a lot - references to their living in "the projects." Read: SLUMS. I used to refer to "going to my house" when I myself lived in a little apartment, or even dorm room in college.

Let 'em eat cake, 'eh?

Many of them DID have a few supplies - which by now have been exhausted, BTW. And you can't very well stockpile a lot of supplies when you don't have that much money anyway, and if you live in a little place with very little room in it to store stuff, can you? OVER AND OVER I've heard people saying they wanted badly to leave but couldn't, because they couldn't afford to get out, or couldn't afford to buy gas, or maybe their cars weren't working in the first place and they couldn't afford to pay for a decent car repair job. Or some of 'em broke down on the way. Or some of 'em waited in lines on the freeways (did you happen to notice how backed-up the interstates out of town were, in the days leading up to Katrina making landfall?) so long that they ran out of gas, too.

Even well-heeled tourists at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in the French Quarter have reported that they, too, tried to leave when warned. And when they tried, they'd found that the airport had closed and there were no more flights out, so they, too, were stuck.

Yes, and many of them who KNEW they were living in a below-sea-level bowl and it was just a matter of time before this happened, had been begging and pleading with the federal government to fund the Army Corps of Engineers projects and other FEMA projects to shore up the levees that were well-documented and well-studied enough for people to recognize they might not hold through a Category-Five hurricane. For YEARS some of these people were begging and pleading. In vain.

Welcome to DU, and please don't be so eager to blame or to judge. I live in earthquake country. It is common knowledge here that you need enough life-sustaining supplies to last you three days without help. COMMON KNOWLEDGE. But for these people, three days are already long gone. It's been longer than that - that they've gone without help. If they HAD laid in survival supplies for three days, those supplies would be used up by now.

[bread_and_roses]

41. Do a little reading before making such judgments

Most of the inner city residents who are poor DID NOT have the means to leave, NO provision was made to help those POOR people who did want to leave, and many if not MOST people who are poor - including the working poor - do not have enough money to put in three days supply of food, etc. by the end of the month.

People who are poor are also understandably reluctant to leave possessions which they will not have the means to replace if they think the odds are that they can ride it out and protect their homes. Like many not so poor who feel the same for whom replacing possessions would be less of a hardship, for that matter.

WHY was no help to evacuate offered to those who wanted to leave but lacked the means to do so themselves????

And WHY, knowing so many would stay, were emergency plans not made for immediate LARGE SCALE Disaster Relief???

Look at the Poverty level in the City of NO, look at the % Minority population, and then look at who was left behind with no provision for their care in the wake of a disaster. And what good does blaming the victim do anyway?

[NNN0LHI]

42. These people already paid their FUCKING rent to someone for the month!

Did the people in the photos you seen look like someone with the kind of extra money to take a fucking out of town vacation somewhere else for a few weeks or months? Use your fucking brain.

Don

[cobaindrain]

31. good thing there are Assault Weapons on the streets in a time of anarchy

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[Bridget Burke]

35. No, YOU'RE really thick! "crappy life choices"?

Yes, there are some assholes with guns on the loose.

But the vast majority of NO's citizens aren't involved--even though you would no doubt consider them of a lower socioeconomic group than you.

[tlcandie]

38. Nice.... and what log did you float in on?

n/t

[ElectroPrincess]

40. Gator, is that you? LOL /eom

[VegasWolf]

39. Send in Charlton Heston to speak up for the NRA. nt

[JoFerret]

44. New Orleans: the big disconnect

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.response/index.html

Nice CNN piece on what the officials said and what the witnesses reported.