HEADLINE: 'NEW ORLEANS LEFT TO THE DEAD & DYING"

[Bluebear]

NEW ORLEANS - Thousands more bedraggled refugees were bused and airlifted to salvation Saturday, leaving the heart of New Orleans to the dead and dying, the elderly and frail stranded too many days without food, water or medical care.

No one knows how many were killed by Hurricane Katrina's floods and how many more succumbed waiting to be rescued. But the bodies are everywhere: hidden in attics, floating among the ruined city, crumpled on wheelchairs, abandoned on highways.

And the dying goes on — at the convention center and an airport triage center, where bodies were kept in a refrigerated truck.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday that she expected the death toll to reach the thousands. And Craig Vanderwagen, rear admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service, said one morgue alone, at a St. Gabriel prison, expected 1,000 to 2,000 bodies.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/hurricane_katrina

[MellowOne]

1. Hey! I posted that two minutes before you.

LOL

[Bluebear]

2. Isn't that the saddest headline MO? nt

[MellowOne]

5. It's a devasting article

Especially three babies dying at the convention center because of dehydration.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

3. Welcome.......

to George W. Bush's America.

Can I get a "Mission Accomplished" on this one, Fuckface?

[meganmonkey]

4. Oh man...

:cry:

I can't believe this is real

:cry:

[ohio_liberal]

6. "Three babies died at the convention center from heat exhaustion"

Babies dying from heat exhaustion. That is fucked up.

[journalist3072]

9. It's damn inexcusable....Beyond rhyme or reason

We as a nation will be judged.

[leftchick]

12. bush murdered them

I am sure one of the babies was the one on msnbc that that distraught mother could not revive.

I really do not recognize this country anymore.

:cry:

[xchrom]

7. thank you george bush.

[Bluebear]

8. Mission Accomplished. n/t

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. Most of those people could have been saved

but Bush stalled and did nothing for as long as possible. The let them die on purpose.

[jsamuel]

11. wow

[Rainscents]

13. I heard on CNN... BushCo wants mass grave dig up for dead

Can you believe this shit??? My mouth drop to floor when I hard this this afternoon!

[bridgit]

14. "World Stunned as U.S. Struggles with Katrina"

"Anarchy in the USA" declared Britain's best-selling newspaper The Sun.

"Apocalypse Now" headlined Germany's Handelsblatt daily.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0902-04.htm

[NYC]

15. Rate the article.

Let everyone know that babies died of lack of water. The Superdome was just emptied today, Saturday.

The last 300 refugees at the Superdome climbed aboard buses Saturday, eliciting cheers from members of the Texas National Guard who were guarding the facility.

Why did this take so long?

At the convention center, people stumbled toward the helicopters, dehydrated and nearly passing out from exhaustion. Many had to be carried by National Guard troops and police on stretchers. And some were being pushed up the street on office chairs and on dollies.

Currently 1,636 votes. 4 stars.

[leftchick]

16. bush's "Man Made Disaster"....

<snip>

The overwhelming majority of those stranded in the post-Katrina chaos were those without the resources to escape — and, overwhelmingly, they were black.

"The first few days were a natural disaster. The last four days were a man-made disaster," said Phillip Holt, 51, who was rescued from his home Saturday with his partner and three of their aging Chihuahuas. They left a fourth behind they couldn't grab in time.

...oh that poor baby they left. :cry: