Jamie McIntyre CNN: Explaining the relief delays

[BootinUp]

paraphrased:

Because so many NO police left, this complicated the situation. The military had to wait for more forces to arrive. If they went in quickly they could have suffered losses. But they are upset that these cops left.

irony alert.

[cthrumatrix]

1. Northern Command was the military relief --- but had to wait for bush...

he waited and people died

[MadeinOhio]

2. That's why we needed an entire army to put down the city.

:eyes:

[lebkuchen]

3. No matter how this debacle is spun, Americans now know

that when the next disaster hits in their neighborhood, whether manmade or natural, they'd better be able to take care of themselves because they can't expect their government to be there for them in their time of greatest need.

[edhopper]

4. Just the begining

of MSM letting * off the hook....more to come.

[Bumblebee]

8. No -- he has always done that and unlike people like Brown,

Cooper, Soledad O'Brien, etc, he has not changed his tune. That's all there is to it.

[Bumblebee]

5. He is always an apologist for them.

Aaron Brown is good at subtly challenging him.

[Spazito]

6. I think you are going to hear that the police leaving was another

pile of crap, just like the 'firing at choppers' has turned out to be. I bet the majority stayed on, this is just another sorry excuse to try and blame the people on the ground that were actually doing something. Beyond pathetic.

[leftofthedial]

7. and the cops blame the school crossing guards

"went in quickly"

you mean like when invading Iraq?

[MO_Dem]

9. This is just some more from

the Department of Poor Excuses. Or is the Government of Poor Excuses? w is a poor excuse for a president, for sure, as are all his appointees.

[Zenlitened]

10. Um, don't most disaster plans include scenarios where the local forces

... police, fire, EMT... are wiped out for one reason or another?

I mean, isn't that part of the PLANNING process?

And then, once you've imagined that possible scenario, don't you come up with contingency plans to work around it?

:shrug:

[donco6]

12. Yes!

We just had a disaster drill in our district, and one scenario we played out was what would happen if the police responders were all taken out (in our case it was due to gas leak/explosion). That was BASIC part of the drill.

[Zenlitened]

15. I thought so. And do you know what my disaster training is? Zilch!

Nada. Nothing. Zero.

Yet even I know the basics like this. So any Bush apologist presenting himself as an "expert" and spouting such nonsense needs to be laughed out of the room.

If not beaten senseless with a whiffle-ball bat. :D

[donco6]

17. The whole POINT of being a disaster preparedness expert

is to be able to think of just such scenarios - AND how you would deal with them. You poke and prod at the boundaries of your combined capability and figure out where you're weak. We discovered quite a bit of stuff that we needed to fix. And we're just a little podunk school district.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

11. What hogwash. Pure unadulterated BS because:

1. The police did not leave their posts until they realized THEY had been abandoned along with everyone else in New Orleans. So they have confused effect with cause.

2. There would have been greatly reduced violence, looting, etc. if the National Guard had been swiftly in place LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

3. We send the National Guard into F!!@#ing Baghdad for Chrissake!

4. So, they decided the violence was too much for them, but not the stranded citizens?!!!!!

5. But not too unsafe for all the great reporters who went in and out day after day. The weenie military commanders could have followed the CNN trucks or the Fox trucks or the MSNBC trucks. If they are so chickenshit then they need to be relieved of their commands. Just the every one else up the chain of command.

Or, were they stalling for other reasons?

[BootinUp]

13. yes it is n/t

[donco6]

14. Fox example.

As much as I hate to bastards - they pointed out several times, "Here we are at the supposedly "dangerous" area, and what do you see? People sitting here. People sweeping up trash because there is nothing else to do. Where's the danger? Get people in here to help!"

[Garbo 2004]

16. He's saying the US military was afraid to go into NOLA without police

protection??????

Sacramento's urban search and rescue team, specializing in water rescues, was sent to Louisianna on Tuesday. And they're firefighters. Other such teams also were sent from other parts of California.

[GoldenOldie]

18. He's speaking from the Pentagon - Their script his mouth!