Landrieu slams FEMA - 9/3

[reprehensor]

Landrieu slams FEMA

U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., Saturday accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency of failing to accept offers that would have eased post-hurricane problems in New Orleans -- including a plan for the Forest Service to douse fires in the city with aircraft used to fight fire.

On Friday, Landrieu asked President Bush to appoint a cabinet-level official to oversee Hurricane Katrina relief and recovery efforts. She reiterated that request on Saturday.

"Yesterday, I was hoping President Bush would come away from his tour of the regional devastation triggered by Hurricane Katrina with a new understanding for the magnitude of the suffering and for the abject failures of the current Federal Emergency Management Agency," Landrieu said. "Twenty-four hours later, the President has yet to answer my call for a cabinet-level official to lead our efforts. Meanwhile, FEMA, now a shell of what it once was, continues to be overwhelmed by the task at hand.

Landrieu said that FEMA has inexplicably failed to take advantage of offers of help.

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[bpilgrim]

1. "FEMA has inexplicably failed to take advantage of offers of help."

thats where we all break out our tin-foil

peace

[applegrove]

2. Why - it would compete with all the reconstruction Halliburton wants

to do. Hurricanes (& the longer aftermath of destruction the better) are simply an opportunity to corporations. Don't we get it yet?