CNN: Barbara Star from the Pentagon..."Waiting for a request from

[Roxy66]

the President".....talking about deploying resources. WTF!!!! Send the goddamned Troops in!!!! What is wrong with this President!!!!

[rodeodance]

1. news said yesterday that the ships were on the way!! what!!

[leftchick]

11. One just left VA

the USS Shreveport. Will arrive in a few days. :(

[MadeinOhio]

2. Apparently he is a crack addict.

I say suspend plus remove him immediately awaiting trial and have someone else take the helm at the White House. This CAN and SHOULD be DONE!

[Stephanie]

16. that is the only logical explanation

[HereSince1628]

3. He's a dry drunk, who avoids responsibility and can't feel other's pain

I think that sort of sums up the reports of his clinical problems.

[rodeodance]

13. maybe his task force is still sleeping?

[xultar]

4. I thought they said the ships were on their way already. They may be

talking about additional troops.

[Roxy66]

10. Why are these other resources on Stand-by?!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

33. I read that it was going to take 3-4 days

just to load the ships and get them ready to leave port.

[Roxy66]

35. They knew this was going to be bad 3 days before it hit

[CatWoman]

48. he sure got those troops in Iraq in a hurry

just sayin.........

[hlthe2b]

5. Good. Now it is ON THE RECORD...

this schmuck and his negligence is truly going to be responsible for the loss of life and distruction... Save this statement and link....It will be needed to pound the voters with later.

[peekaloo]

6. Awaiting the dry drunk to dry dock.

[Wickerman]

7. He wants to do it during Prime Time

get the most media coverage. Everything is staged.

[LSK]

31. hes 2 days too late

He should have been making speeches Monday night...

[Connie_Corleone]

8. WTF is he waiting for??!!!!

What an incompetent ass!!!

[leftchick]

9. I thought she said from the civilian authority at FEMA

I didn't hear her nmention the asshat. At any rate WTF? They should have been racing to the scene yesterday!

:grr:

[Bonhomme Richard]

12. Would someone please interrupt his golf game.

Paging a President, Paging a President.

[rodeodance]

18. Fox saying the Pres. has authorized NothCom to.... some authoritive

figure is talking--preson from LA talking.

[rodeodance]

23. 'officials in LA" is what they were described as--those saying Pres. has

already authorized NorthCom.

[Connie_Corleone]

24. I think he was from FEMA.

[yellowcanine]

22. Bush is too busy eating cake with John McCain. Let ME eat cake!

[WiseButAngrySara]

46. Let B* et al eat YELLOW Cake from Niger....n/t

[oasis]

14. Hundreds of military trucks, busses and school busses should have been

deployed to take folks out before the storm. Efforts should have been made for coordination between state, federal and military.

The feds, under Bush, dropped the ball once again.

[Hobarticus]

15. How'd NO vote, in '00, '02, and '04?

After all, why should Homeland Security and FEMA dollars go to places where non-donors live?

[Darkhawk32]

25. What Parrish is New Orleans in? n/t

[Hobarticus]

26. I believe the area covers a few...

Jefferson, Orleans, Plaquemines, St. Bernard and St. Tammany Parishes, I think?

[Darkhawk32]

27. In 2000, Orleans Parrish went HEAVY to Gore.

137,630 to 39,404

What's the population of New Orleans? That's a pathetic turnout it looks like.

[Hobarticus]

29. WAY pathetic...n/t

[Darkhawk32]

44. The LA Dem Party needs to be aggressive in '06 and '08. Get those folks

registered to vote!

[malachi]

40. 2004 Kerry 77% - Chimp 22% - 484,674 (city proper) population

President: Orleans County (LA)
Updated 11/3/04 4:58 AM ET
100% Precincts Reporting Incumbent* declared winner

Candidates Votes %

John F. Kerry (D) 151,686 77%
George W. Bush * (R) 42,760 22%
Ralph Nader (I) 823 0%
Michael Badnarik (Lib.) 379 0%
Michael A. Peroutka (CST) 136 0%
David Cobb (Green) 135 0%
Walter F. Brown (I) 88 0%
James Harris (SWP) 54 0%
Gene Amondson (Lib.) 25 0%

Source: AP

[Hobarticus]

43. You know, one can only hope that *'s just incompetant...

and not plain ol' evil, to turn his back on these people.

[GalleryGod]

17. I Guess "Big Time" Cheney is in the bunker with Haliburton

getting all the i's dotted and t's crossed on the construction contracts:puke:

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. Is he waiting for NO to be completely submerged before he reacts?

He should have been on this BEFORE Katrina made landfall, by organizing efforts to get EVERYONE out of harms way. I remember dumbass giving an interview to a German reporter after 9/11. The German reporter asked bunnypants why he was flying around the country on that day and numbnuts said he was 'just trying to get out of harm's way.' To bad thousands in the path of Katrina didn't have that option! I hate George W. Bush!

[leftchick]

20. This is what FEMA and HS SAY they are doing...

It sounds like one two Navy ships are actually on their way. All of the rest of this has not happened yet...

Military Response

The Pentagon has sent the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan to the Louisiana coast. The ship's helicopters are being utilized for rescue missions. The ship can produce large quantities of fresh water and is equipped with 600 hospital beds. Several Navy ships are on their way from Norfolk, Va., including a rescue and salvage vessel and the USS Iwo Jima, another amphibious assault ship.

A floating hospital based in Baltimore, the USNS Comfort, is expected to depart for the Gulf coast in a few days.

More than 100,000 U.S. Army National Guard troops have been activated and sent to the area. Army Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum said Guard members along the Gulf Coast are performing a variety of missions, from providing security at the emergency shelter at the New Orleans Superdome, where thousands of local residents are seeing refuge from Hurricane Katrina, to assisting with emergency evacuations.

"We learned from hurricanes in Florida that recovery takes weeks and months, and not days," Blum said. "So we are looking at this recovery operation with the long haul in mind, and we are setting ourselves up to have an extended, protracted response, as necessary, until normalcy is restored to these communities."

More than 40 U.S. Coast Guard aircraft from as far away as California and Massachusetts, along with aircraft from the Army and Air National Guard, have saved hundreds of people since the hurricane made landfall Monday. The Coast Guard received more than 350 requests for help yesterday, many from urban areas in New Orleans, but also from along the Mississippi coast, where people were stranded on rooftops due to severe flooding.

Additional Coast Guard small boats and cutters are poised to join the search and rescue efforts today, and will stage off the coasts of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi to provide communications and fueling for aircraft, as well as to patrol nearby waterways.

Other Coast Guard assets, including hazardous material disposal teams, aids to navigation teams and disaster assistance relief teams, continue to work in conjunction with local, state and federal agencies on other relief and recovery missions to minimize the economic and environmental impacts from the hurricane.

The Air Force is deploying a C-5 Galaxy to Louisiana and a C-17 to Mississippi. Both are large cargo planes. The C-5 is carrying swift boats, which can maneuver in shallow floodwaters to ferry rescue workers and victims. The C-17 can evacuate 36 sick and injured people at a time. In addition, Black Hawk helicopters have been flying search and rescue missions in Mississippi.

http://homelandresponse.org/full_story.php?WID=13942

[SlowDownFast]

47. Too late, too little.

This shit shoulda been mobilized 3 dayz ago.

[auntAgonist]

21. Aren't some on their way?

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/08/31/D8CAPLL81.html

[LSK]

28. on D-Day the Germans did nothing for many hours

Because Hitler was sleeping. No generals did anything and many beleive that was one of their downfalls. Large divisions of Panzars idled on the backroads waiting for orders to attack.

[riverwalker]

30. total complete incompetance

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050831/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/katrina_pentagon

"Wednesday morning, four Navy ships loaded with supplies — ranging from food and water to soap and medical supplies — were preparing to leave Virginia, and expect to arrive in the Gulf by the weekend, according to the Navy." :grr: :grr: BY THE FREAKIN' WEEKEND!?

"In addition, the hospital ship USNS Comforf was leaving Baltimore en route to the Gulf region and eight swift water rescue teams from California were on the way to Lafayette, La., to help pull stranded residents from their flooded homes and neighborhoods."

JUST LEAVING NOW? FROM CALIFORNIA?

:wtf:

[CottonBear]

32. Bu$h should've sent in Nat'l Guard & Army Corps of Engineers

BEFORE the hurricane hit. They should have sent regular army too. They should have reinforced ALL levees and provided extra pumps. They should have forced or paid the airlines to fly in empty planes and fly out passengers. The cruise ship should not have put off passengers in NO. They should have evacuated ALL of the hospitals by bus, ambulance, cargo plane or boat or whatever other way they could. They should have gone door to door and evacuated EVRYONE from their homes without the means or way to leave. The Nat'l Gaurd could have stayed in the Superdome then immediately deployed onto the streets of the city along w/ the engineers and other emergency workers.

The FEDERAL gov't should have done this all prior to landfall.
They did not and now people are dying/dead and NO is ruined

My husband's family survived the storm up in Lacombe, LA (across the lake.) They foolishly stayed in their homes but are somehow OK and by some miracle their homes did not flood. They have trees on the houses and other damage. They are very lucky.

[H5N1]

45. You are hired!

There is some food for thought

[SlowDownFast]

49. CottonBear for Prez!

Or someone else with some COMMON SENSE.

This shit ain't rocket science. A good leader would have done the above.

[jimshoes]

34. Contingency planning for this disaster

should have been in the works when it was obvious this hurricane was headed towards NOLA. A real leader would have been on the job.

[mod mom]

41. BFEE doesn't believe in contingency plans-just look at Iraq. nt

He is our leader in theft only.

[in_cog_ni_to]

36. He's getting 'even' with all those Democrats

who didn't vote for him. That bastard needs to be DRAGGED out of D.C. and IMPEACHED! He's MENTALLY ILL! Noone in their right mind would let human beings suffer this way. That SOB is playing politics with the lives of millions of people!:grr:

[Roxy66]

37. Ships wont reach Louisiana for 5 days!!! (Just on Faux News)

[morgan2]

38. lets the homes break

then let halliburton and bechtel rebuild the US. Sounds like a perfect cash cow to me.

[VLC98]

39. Give him a few more hours...

he's not quite finished reading "My Pet Goat".

[SpiralHawk]

42. "Hang Loose." - George AWOL Bush

as usual