amazing videos and links on Katrina

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Why were the citizens of New Orleans trapped by armed guards inside their own drowning city?

Why weren't they allowed to leave through interstate 10 and walk across the bridge to escape the waters and food shortages?

Why were volunteers and donated goods being TURNED AWAY by military forces?

I suggest watching two news clips currently on ifilm:

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2678976
(I've never seen reporters this hopeless and dismayed, especially on Fox News of
all places!)

http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2678978
(in this one, a preachers relays several post-Katrina stories including the one
where FEMA cuts the emergency phone lines and the sheriff has to reconnect them
and post armed men to protect them (purportedly...))

There's lots of videos here:

http://youtube.com/results.php?search=katrina

read the following two first-hand narratives:

http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/article_18337.shtml

and

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html