Horrible Thought: Lowball Katrina Death Toll & Include It In Rita Deaths

[stopbush]

I wouldn't put it past them: keep the Katrina toll as low as possible, then release some of those deaths as having happened during Rita. The RWNM talking point will then be, "see, even with a huge heads up, great evacuations and the entire mechanism of government going full steam, a lot of people still died...so quit blaming * for the Katrina deaths...they would have died anyway."

I'm only saying this because a few weeks ago I read about hospitals with like 800 dead in them. Have those bodies been counted? I don't think so.

Tell me I'm wrong.

[BrainRants]

1. Hmmm, Repub gov in Texas?

There will be no deaths in Texas.

[stopbush]

3. But there could well be more deaths in NOLA, LA and east. n/t

[whistle]

2. Anything is possible....also the poor of New Orleans just may become the

...forgotten people of Bush's new Amerika, as the Houston Astrodome displayed persons have already been evacuated to other parts of the country.