New Orleans collects dead as officials dodge blame

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N03371064.htm

New Orleans collects dead as officials dodge blame

NEW ORLEANS, Sept 4 (Reuters) - New Orleans began the gruesome task of collecting its thousands of dead on Sunday as the Bush administration tried to save face after its botched rescue plans left the city at the mercy of Hurricane Katrina.

Except for rescue workers and scattered groups of people, streets in the once-vibrant capital of jazz and good times were all but abandoned after a mass exodus of hundreds of thousands of refugees into neighboring Texas and other states.

Battered and sickened survivors made no attempt to disguise their anger: "We have been abandoned by our own country, " Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, just south of New Orleans, told NBC's Meet the Press.

"It's not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans," Broussard said. "Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureacracy has to stand trial before Congress now."

[whistle]

1. Who in New Orleans are actually collecting the dead?

[jus_the_facts]

2. for what it's worth....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4628192

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=155&topic_id=2340&mesg_id=2340

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3954289

[neweurope]

3. I'd think a NORMAL government of a CIVILIZED nation would

employ those specialists now... the experts who worked after the Tsunami, too, people who can identify the dead by their teeth etc. If they did I'm sure we would have heard of it. It is really incredible. What scares me most is that evidently they are very cocky and think they'll get away with it. So what do they know that we don't? Some of us DID fear that something terrible would happen in September...

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Remember Fallujah

Bush to The Hague!

[FlaGranny]

9. Same old, same old -

the continually deny what we see with our own eyes.

Obviously, they are still not allowing civilians to do any rescues. I thought I would see the flood areas swarming with airboats and private jon boats, etc. Where are they? I've been watching those helicopter scenes and it is obvious they are still not allowing private rescuers in.

[Rebel_with_a_cause]

4. This is where we could really use Bush's help

I want to see that slithery snake vomiting his guts out at the first whiff of death.

[anitar1]

15. How about having the whole PNAC bunch pressed into

body retrival work. That would be a pleasure to see. Frist,Hastert,DeLay and Gingrich can also help.

[NoQuarter]

5. One correction...

New Orleans began the gruesome task of collecting its thousands of dead on Sunday as the Bush administration tried to save face after its botched rescue plans left the city at the mercy of Hurricane Katrina.

You can't botch a plan that didn't exist.

[kestrel91316]

12. Not quite. I think their plan was to let the poor simply DROWN, then

they would just pick up the bodies at leisure.

They never expected those folks to FIGHT their way out to safety. They never expected there to be anybody needing rescue.

[KamaAina]

6. I've always liked Aaron Broussard

When I lived in N.O. (early '90s), he was mayor of Kenner, the city in Jeff Parish where the airport is. He was the sole elected official in the suburbs who actually (gasp) cooperated with New Orleans, for instance by joining the Regional Transit Authority (the rest of JP runs its own dinky sorry-ass system). There was even talk of him going for Governor someday. Ah, what might have been...

edit: authority not administration

[donco6]

10. He was very impressive on TV.

I like him.

[UpInArms]

7. Scummy the Dummy was rude to survivors

from your link:

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld toured a medical facility at New Orleans' international airport on Sunday. He spoke and shook hands with military and rescue officials but walked right by a dozen refugees lying on stretchers just feet away from him, most of them extremely sick or handicapped.

He acts as though they're not alive nor human.

A piece of fecal matter is more compassionate.

:argh:

[Olney Blue]

8. You go in with the feces you have, not the feces you wish you had.

[Chicago1]

11. Wayne Madsen Report says...

that the dead are going to be buried in Mass Graves.

It's on the Sept 4th posting. Does anyone know anything about this?????????????????????????

[Demeter]

16. They'd Better Not Try

that would be the ultimate insult, especially after all the time and resources identifying the 9/11 body fragments. It's not like they were burned and blown to bits, just drowned, starved, and killed by neglect.

[texpatriot2004]

13. The title says it all, but I think Broussard is right, especially about

this:

"It's not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans," Broussard said. "Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureacracy has to stand trial before Congress now."

[JoFerret]

14. YES

...asap.