Do ents Show Katrina's Political Storm

[Nbadan]

Do ents Show Katrina's Political Storm
By CONNIE MABIN, Associated Press Writer
20 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS - As Hurricane Katrina roared ashore and began its assault on homes and lives across Louisiana, a political storm was brewing in the Louisiana governor's office and the White House, newly released do ents show.

Memos, handwritten notes, e-mails and phone logs turned over late Friday to congressional committees investigating failures in the government's disaster response shed more light on what happened behind the scenes in the frantic days surrounding the Aug. 29 storm.


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The 100,000 pages of do ents that Blanco sent to Congress on Friday include a series of letters starting with one Blanco sent President Bush a day before the hurricane hit.

"I have determined that this incident will be of such severity and magnitude that effective response will be beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments and that supplementary federal assistance will be necessary," Blanco wrote.

Yahoo News

...but, but, Governor Blanco never 'formally' asked the FEDS to step in and handle the Hurricane Katrina evacuation efforts in NO right? In fact, she impeded FEMA from properly doing its job or so the spin goes.

Ah yes, the bull keeps piling on.

[bigzak25]

Dan, bull piling is the norm in washington and quite frankly in politics EVERYWHERE.

if that letter is authentic? yeah, that's egg on the face of Bush.

but you guys are throwing so many, ones bound to hit from time to time...

However, I must also note the fact that, according to your post, the office sent 100,000 pages of do ents and letters.

And this one happened to be sent at the last minute. YES, the day before Katrina hits is last minute.

Let me say this. Was Blanco on Television and Radio telling her residents to get the out of dodge? Show me that tape or recording. Cuz this sounds like a piece of paper to cover someones ass and point the finger. Tape don't lie.

Show me where She said it to the PEOPLE ahead of time.

[George W. Bush]

Do ents Show Katrina's Political Storm
By CONNIE MABIN, Associated Press Writer
20 minutes ago



Yahoo News

...but, but, Governor Blanco never 'formally' asked the FEDS to step in and handle the Hurricane Katrina evacuation efforts in NO right? In fact, she impeded FEMA from properly doing its job or so the spin goes.

Ah yes, the bull keeps piling on.

I swear, I DID NOT HAVE EMAIL RELATIONS WITH THIS WOMAN.





But I thankyou for your support.

[George W. Bush]

Fri. Aug. 26--blanco declares state of emergency
Sat. --blanco and nagin tell everyone to leave, blanco asks bush to declare LA a major disaster area/fed state of emergency
Sun. mandatory evacuation orderd
mon. storm lands
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they're all ing idiots and should be fired

Okay, I shoulda listened. I ed up. What about the people that didn't leave. They didn't listen either.


I mean, whaaaaattss the deaaaaalll with thaaat.

[Chef]

Okay, I shoulda listened. I ed up. What about the people that didn't leave. They didn't listen either.


I mean, whaaaaattss the deaaaaalll with thaaat.

now that has got to be the biggest crock of bull i ever heard.

what about the poor people that coulnd't. Your right, you DID up. Don't do it again or you'll have a million man march you don't want to see cracka.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

No..yall have it all wrong..gtownspur is MEXICAN
THATS why he's republican

get it straight

[Cant_Be_Faded]

or is he mexican because he is a republican?
complete wastes of oxygen and carbon always confuse me..

[Vashner]

n pathetic...

It must suck to be a liberal.. living in a world of ing over and over again...

While Bush rides your ass like a ing rodeo clown... ya'll es.

[gtownspur]

or is he mexican because he is a republican?
complete wastes of oxygen and carbon always confuse me..

Hey , i thought you said you were gone once and for all because i hurt your feelings. Your just a little twink who couldn't put up and now you decide to talk about me. I bet you think about me all the time. Funny how when you were gone i never mentioned your name. But you can't stop talking about me because you secretly admire me.

Go back to the basketball forums and brag about how you have a shirtless Vince Carter pinup next to your N'sync poster. If you said you were never gonna post again, atleast be a man and sac up.

[DarkReign]

Again with male fascination, Gtown.

Seriously, what is up with that?

[gtownspur]

The only male i'm fascinated is with myself.,

Was my jokes making you have a chubby and you feel uncomfortable about that.

[SA210]

Again with male fascination, Gtown.

Seriously, what is up with that?

It's scary.

[gtownspur]

and full of hate

[SA210]

^^^ There u go. The truth shall set u free.

[gtownspur]

While i'm on a role with the Truth, your full of .
And yes, it has set me free.

[Nbadan]

More damaging do ents surface for FEMA

FEMA realized its response to Hurricane Katrina was "broken" and braced for rioting over woefully low supplies in Mississippi in the days just after the storm, according to new do ents released Monday.

The correspondence among Federal Emergency Management Agency officials, provided by a special House committee investigating the government response to the storm, follows the release last week of more than 100,000 do ents by Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco. Taken together, the details from both states provide evidence that FEMA was unable to provide fast help at disaster sites — even when the needs were obvious.

"This is unlike what we have seen before," William Carwile, FEMA's former top responder in Mississippi, said in a Sept. 1 e-mail to officials at the agency's headquarters. He was describing difficulties in getting body bags and refrigerated trucks to Han County, Miss., which was badly damaged by the Aug. 29 storm.

"I personally authorized Han County to buy refer (sic) trucks that had been carrying ice becasue (sic) the coroner was going to have to start putting bodies out in the parking lot as his cooler was getting full," wrote Carwile, who has since retired from FEMA. "Still lots and lots of bodies out there."

The next day, in another e-mail to headquarters about substandard levels of food, water and ice being distributed in Mississippi, Carwile reported: "System appears broken."

San Francisco Gate

[gtownspur]

FEMA was not designed to handle a vast wide emergency reaching across three states. But i guess FEMA was all that was evil, and kathleen blanco is the Margret Thatcher of the LEft.