Breaking CNN Banner.........

[OhioChick]

AP: Sweep of New Orleans finds far fewer bodies than expected, suggesting death toll may not be catastrophic 10,000 feared, authorities say. Details soon.

http://www.cnn.com/

[Bumblebee]

Beginning of a cover-up?

"authorities" as in federal?

[FormerRepublican]

1. Coverup?

[Lost-in-FL]

2. Are they done looking already?

:shrug: :hurts: At least it didn't took as long as getting help

[Connie_Corleone]

3. Meaning, no accountability from Bush.

Why are reporters saying that bodies all over the streets??

Bush could kill us all and the report would say "Fewer Killed By Bush Than Expected."

[AX10]

4. "So it doesn't really matter who's dead because....

not as many have died as first thought" That's the line of 'logic' in Bushworld.

:eyes:

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Come on folks

try not to sound like death-mongers.

If the count is actually lower then expected we should all be thankful.

[randr]

12. Right on

[Bernardo de La Paz]

13. Thank you for saying that, DYEW. Less death is good. Let's hope it's true.

[tinrobot]

18. Just hope they count everyone

...all we're saying.

I mean, there was a report that they ordered 25,000 body bags. Had to be some basis for that.

[Douglas Carpenter]

23. let's at least wait and see what the report actually says

and let's see what the facts are...remember, the media has shown more willingness in the past week than it has in the past five years to take on Bush...I'm not sure that this will last. But, let's wait and see

[Individualist]

24. "If"

the count were lower than expected, I would certainly be thankful. However, what "authorities" are reporting this to CNN? My bet is FEMA. No credibility.

[jackstraw45]

6. Let's hope so....

remember when the 9/11 death toll was over 10,000?

I HOPE it's less than that. Doesn't change the botched federal response one BIT.

[ronnykmarshall]

38. That's what I was thinking.

When the towers fell, I kept thinking the toll would be well over 10,000.

This is good news.

[KingFlorez]

7. 10,000 did seem like a big number

After 9/11 people we're speculating 50,000 dead, so these estimates from disasters aren't always accurate.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Bull puckey!

------------------------------------------------------
Ditch Bu$h and save the Gulf: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=106&topic_id=22507&mesg_id=22507

Then save the nation!
http://timeforachange.bluelemur.com/electionreform.htm

[KyndCulture]

9. Spin spin spin... I'm not sure I believe this at all... nt.

[Junkdrawer]

10. That was quick......and you thought FEMA was doing a bad job...

looks to me that FEMA is doing a GREAT job - covering up, that is...

[zbdent]

11. Bush must have joined the search

. . .

[bloom]

14. sounds like a PR campaign - what the FEMA people are really trained for...

From Democracy Now! today:

"But one of the things, Amy, that is not being talked about a lot is the fact that the East of New Orleans, of the city of New Orleans has largely been untouched by anyone. Rescue workers haven't made it there, journalists haven't made it there. I was talking to a Louisiana state trooper yesterday who said that he flew over the area in a helicopter, and he said that there are bodies and animals floating everywhere and that the military is guarding the area, preventing people from coming in on boats, that they have M-16s and that they're preventing people from coming in. There are reports that in one school, for instance, in that area, that there could be upwards of hundreds of bodies in the east of New Orleans, and people are not able to get in there, as well.

You know, right now, the official death toll of hurricane Katrina stands at something like 294, but as with we hear those numbers we have to understand that in St. Gabriel’s, which is not far from Baton Rouge, where I am now, they have set up a massive warehouse that is going to serve as the main morgue. They have brought in more than 25,000 body bags into the area. So we're just now at the beginning of what is going to be a very, very horrifying aftermath as the city itself dries up."

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/09/1411242

[deminks]

15. This is why there are no pictures, and the evacuees

are scattered from hell to breakfast. No one can compare notes. Worked well in Iraq.

[uppityperson]

16. "Finds" is the word here

How many bodies were "found" after 9/11? How many bodies will not be found in NO? (never recovered, dissolved, predators got, etc)

[Moosepoop]

17. ACK!!! The Quaker Oats guy zooming around above the banner

I thought at first it was Ma Barker Bush... it scared me!! :scared:

[stellanoir]

19. come on guys

Of course we'd love to hear reports of lower casualties than anticapated, but the reality we already know is that the folks indulge in "fuzzy math", whether it pertains to costs of the Medicare bill, no bid contracts, numbers of protesters, vote tallies, or countless dead Iraqi's.

I'd love to give them the benefit of the doubt and think that they just really suck at bath math and counting, but after all that's transpired, I think it's intentional deceipt and totally deplorable.

[jsamuel]

20. If you believe this, you are gullible

[meegbear]

21. Only a few thousand? A mere pittence, nothing to bother with

:grr:

[Kolesar]

22. Just like the stories that WMDs were found in Iraq

Two years later, and most Americans had the false impression that WMDs actually were found. It was a stunningly successful misinformation campaign.

[samsingh]

25. the hope the death toll is much, much lower.

[in_cog_ni_to]

26. I thought the estimate was 40,000? Then yesterday I saw a 10,000

estimate and today it's fewer. I don't believe them. It's a cover up. Why else do they not want journalists filming bodies? They're LYING, AGAIN.

On edit...I dO HOPE this is true, but I honestly doubt it. They're lying. As usual.

[OhioChick]

27. I don't buy this.......

It's far too soon to release such a statement as this. Makes one wonder.

[ret5hd]

28. It is VITAL... IMPERATIVE...NON_NEGOTIABLE...

We must have a PUBL IC, OPEN, VERIFIABLE list of the dead in NO. Otherwise, this administration can claim WHATEVER number they like!

[Be Brave]

29. Kick this. And a few members of the media should be at the

morgue 24/7.

[OhioChick]

32. Aren't the media hovering outside of the morgue?

Another thread stated that someone in the area said that trucks were coming in one after the other day and night.

Not one death can be swept under the rug.

[Be Brave]

33. Yes, they've been reporting from there about the preparatiions.

I just don't want them to be distracted and drop the ball.

[Junkdrawer]

31. Hell, we can't get that for our votes...

"you just want a higher death count for political purposes. How ghoulish are you anyway?" wait for it...

[ret5hd]

37. i guess in one sense they would be right...cause i want Truth.

[justiceischeap]

30. An initial sweep.... those are the operative words.

I doubt they've had time to go house to house. There are many areas that are still under water. Not that I want some huge death toll but they have no where near begun the actual search and recovery. They probably stood on a street corner turned 180 degress and said, "Yep, fewer than expected."

[Individualist]

36. Also from the AP article

which is posted on www.nola.com: "Numbers so far are relatively minor as compared to the dire projections of 10,000," Ebbert said.

So far? They've just started recovering bodies! I'll be very interested to hear what Mayor Nagin has to say about Ebert's statement.

[lizlib]

39. oh I doubt this story

we need to count the missing when its all said and done. somehow I doubt they have been in every attic of every house. Maybe thats why they aren't allowing cameras in anymore... so we can't see the bodies when the water drains.

[rocktivity]

34. That means Nagin and Blanco did a better job than everyone thought, right?

:headbang:
rocknation

[OhioChick]

35. Good point.........

If this is in fact accurate.