The USNS Comfort has not left yet!!!

[KyndCulture]

CNN reports it will leave by midnight tonight and arrive on SEPTEMBER 8th!!!!!!!!!!

What the fuck?! It will be used for a morgue by then.

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. We knew that on Monday when they announced

that they were sending ships.

Too little, too late should be Bush's new motto.

[displacedtexan]

It's leaving tonight.

Such a waste of time!

[Inland]

2. Rename it the "Cold Comfort".

It'll be a very amusing pun for the WH as it will be chilling the corpses in the morgue.

[leftchick]

rename USS Coffin

:cry:

[Ninga]

3. We have descended into a "three stooges government"

[Tesla]

4. There is alot more than 3!!!!

The number is unbelieveable!!!!

[greekspeak]

7. Can you photoshop that up?

PLEASE?!?

[KyndCulture]

5. My Navy vet boyfriend says that a ship can get underway

in 4 hours in an emergency, they are trained for that. This is RIDICULOUS!

[chelsea0011]

6. When that hurricane went Cat. 5 and heading to New Orleans

the USNS Comfort should have started to get ready to leave to a closer location.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Actually, those ships can usually leave fairly quickly.....

So when the hurricane was a strong category 4 and obviously going to make landfall along the US gulf coast (perhaps the Bush admin thought it would jump off into space or something), the order should have been given for them to leave port and start making their way somewhere safe (like Key West) from the storm, but close enough to be in the disaster area within a day after the storm.