Reply #47: Minstrel Boy, I was watching the local news on the NBC affiliate [View All]

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in D.C. this morning. The anchor said that a van full of water, food, supplies, medicines, as well as Loudoun County sheriff's deputies and fire and rescue workers left Leesburg, Virginia this morning, heading for the Gulf Coast and New Orleans. They had to turn around and come back, because FEMA HAD NOT GIVEN THEM THE NECESSARY AUTHORIZATION TO GO AND DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES.

This is absolutely outrageous. I called this morning to volunteer with the Red Cross and be sent to the Gulf region. As of 1:25 EDT, I still haven't heard anything back (although they may call later).

How, the name of everything that's holy, could something like this HAPPEN? This is AMERICA, for God's sake. We can send troops to Iraq to fight a war we shouldn't have started to begin with, but we can't send troops to help people in the LARGEST humanitarian crisis we've ever had in this country? Dear God!