Mayor of NO just made an SOS statement to CNN saying they are desperate

[Scout1071]

despite what the President is saying, he says things on the ground are critical and they need help right away.

[Hobarticus]

1. God DAMMIT...I hereby commandeer Marine One in the name of the

people of the United States!!!!

[phantom power]

2. I don't understand.

Can't they get even a single load of food and water to the convention center? For the love of god, they could have back-packed it in by now.

[DBoon]

3. They were able to do this in Afganistan

what's the prob here?

[Spike from MN]

5. Halliburton probably had the contract in Afghanistan

so there was money to be made. There's no profit in bring in food and water to the people in NO. Also, since most of those stranded are probably poor and have the wrong color skin, they don't count as far as the current administration is concerned. If rich white people were stranded, you can bet things would be a LOT different.

[lancdem]

4. I'm sorry, Mr. Nagin

The president doesn't give a shit.

[Synnical]

6. Fema - national disgrace

http://www.thetimesonline.com/articles/2005/09/01/updates/top_stories/6bb8a3e577221e6c8625706f00608ffd.txt

But an angry Terry Ebbert, head of New Orleans' emergency operations, watching the slow procession from the Superdome, said the Federal Emergency Management Agency response was inadequate.

"This is a national disgrace. FEMA has been here three days, yet there is no command and control," Ebbert said. "We can send massive amounts of aid to tsunami victims but we can't bail out the city of New Orleans. We have got a mayor who has been pushing and asking but we're not getting supplies."

He said the evacuation was almost entirely a Louisiana operation. "This is not a FEMA operation. I haven't seen a single FEMA guy."