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Originally Posted by wjxxx
Are you suggesting that local government should evacuate people before flooding ?
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This is exactly right. The Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, is completely at fault. He knows his city better than anyone and should have transported people using their mass transit system long before the storm hit. The problem was that he was paralyzed by 'analysis paralysis' and simply could not make the decisions he had to make. Then he goes and blames it on the federal government. He was supposed to follow certain protocols and he didn't. The governor of LA was supposed to follow certain protocols and she didn't either. Then, through their inability to act, the city is faced with 10's of thousands of deaths, and they want to push all of the responsibility off on FEMA (which does have it's own faults) and try to absolve themselves of any responsibility. It's simply a case of politicians covering their asses at the expense of the victim's lives. It's a sad, sad thing. GWB said 3 days ago that the response was totally inadequate and accepted the responsibility of FEMA's fuck up. He then repeated it the next day. But you see how fast the active military got moving once he mandated they move in. It was the lack of local leadership that caused this problem and they most certainly have the blood of innocent people on their hands for their incompetence.