aaron brown says feds say louisiana death toll shouldn't pass...

[RepublicanElephant]

...2,000.

they're gonna make darn sure this doesn't surpass 9-11.

[stepnw1f]

1. or the numbers of Iraqi War Dead

Obvious isn't it?

[troubleinwinter]

2. More than Iraq, but less than 9-11. Should roll in about "2,500"

[autorank]

3. I hope it's zero and this is a mistake. It is not a reasonable estimate.

This "counting" process does not reflect reality. There were 2 million people in the metro area, at least .5 in the hardhit cityand other areas. They have no idea. It's a morbid spin.

[Davis_X_Machina]

4. Diebold is in charge...

...of the tabulation, and the official death toll is 82.

[dweller]

8. correct that, it's 43.

and upon that number the bell should toll.

dp

[dflprincess]

5. They might think more than Iraq would help them

There's been a few letters to the Minneapolis paper defending the body count in Iraq by making such inane observations as "more people are killed in car accidents" or "more people are murdered in U.S. cities" (I don't understand this logic). A higher count in Louisiana and Mississippi would give them another comparison that makes no sense.

[milkyway]

6. The computer simulations that had tens of thousands dying must have

been fucked up, just like the exit polls.

Lying about the body count is the cornerstone of the bush propaganda offensive. Let's see if the corporate media swallows it as easily as they did the fraudulent election results.

[KharmaTrain]

7. Do Numbers Matter?

Would it have mattered if it was 5,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 dead? The horror here wasn't the dead, it was and is how the living were treated and are going to be cared for.

There were deaths caused by negligence and those must be investigated independently. There are people whose lives have been destroyed who still haven't reunited with other family members, yet alone look toward rebuilding their lives from the bottom up.

There tends to be a morbid fasciation with the death toll here. Some how the higher it is, that some indication of how evil and callous the booooosh regime is...while others will use lower numbers to say this wasn't as bad as what it was.

The facts are people have and will die in natural disasters...and this one has no parallel. Gulfport and Biloxi were turned to splinters and people died there. You can't blame this regime for that.

However, there stood five long, hot days where thousands of living people in New Orleans were deprived of food and water. They were kept as prisoners in their own city as the federal government played games and their manchild preznit couldn't be bothered with another "problem". This negligence that shouldn't require a body count number after it...just accountability...and those who were directly responsible for preventing food and water from getting into the city during those five days should be held accountable.