OMG this Brian Williams show about Katrina

[proud2BlibKansan]

:cry:

In the United States of America.

Never forget.

[Skittles]

1. I will never forget

I have a searing memory of angrily thinking, "Bush says he'll bring democracy to Iraq when he cannot even get a little girl off a bridge in LOUISIANA?" :mad:

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I'll never forget just staring at my TV and sobbing

Hubby came in and turned off the TV and took me by the hand and made me go do something other than watch TV and cry. I'd been sitting there for hours. Lost all sense of time.

[Skittles]

5. I watched it all unfold as I worked all night

there are 14 big screen TVs going across the room....I remember the moment it hit me that, holy sh** - this is REALLY bad :cry:

[emmadoggy]

12. My kids were only

3 1/2 years old at the time, but they still remember how I cried and cried as I watched it all unfold on TV. I think it scared them a little to see me so upset, esp. my daughter.

It was excruciating to watch and yet I couldn't NOT watch. I was SO fucking pissed (and dumbstruck) at all the incompetence.

[dkf]

2. Yup. And then this man made oil spill.

[Renew Deal]

4. It's still unbelievable to me that this happened in the US.

No response at all for days! A country that spends so much on the military and they can't respond to a catastrophe within a couple of days? It's a fucking crime.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. I seriously doubt the official death toll

I was in New Orleans in March of 09 and met this local guy who had live there all his life. Rode the cable car with him for a couple hours. He said everyone he knew knew people who just disappeared and never came back, never contacted their families. He had 3 family members who are just gone now.

He thought there were at least 20,000 fatalities.

[aquart]

20. I would not be the least bit surprised.

Since Katrina, mentions of 9/11 leave me baffled and embarrassed. No terrorist ever destroyed a city. A CITY! While dust settled in downtown, the rest of us had our homes and our lives, even if not our jobs.

They kept trying to tell me fewer died in New Orleans and I did not and do not believe them.

[NOLALady]

25. You are so right.

Most locals really believe the death toll was at least 10,000.

There were so many unclaimed bodies. That makes me believe entire families/communities were wiped out.

The ritual is to check on family, extended family and friends before and after storms. The only way so many bodies could be unclaimed is if no one was left to look for them.

[Warpy]

9. There was a tremendous response

but it was kept outside the city, help sitting on the I-10 pavement for 5 days while the National Guard adhered to Chertoff's paranoid disaster manual that said everybody in that city was contagious from germ warfare and the city had to be completely sealed off.

That's the part of the disaster that no one has ever bothered to verbalize and that no one has ever taken responsibility for. Help didn't get to those people because help was prevented from getting into the city.

That's the real tragedy here, not the neglect, the premeditated and vicious adherence to an obviously misguided disaster manual because everybody was just following orders and by god, somebody at the top had to tell them different.

Brownie was too involved in fine dining and schmoozing to care.

[aquart]

21. Chertoff who looks like an undertaker?

Another one who will never be punished.

[Warpy]

22. More like the corpse

and I suspect you're right.

I count him about 30% responsible for the deaths but 100% responsible for the prolonged misery of people sitting on roofs and in the stadium, waiting for rescue that was prevented from entering the city because he was a paranoid damned fool.

[applegrove]

7. I can't watch. I just don't feel like being upset. That is still the most gawd awful

moment in American history.

[liberalmuse]

8. I'll never forget.

It was the worst moment I've experienced as an American citizen - watching other Americans needlessly die because of apathetic and inept leadership. I remember finally screaming and crying in the car after hearing a radio report describing the human misery. No, I won't be forgetting this fucking travesty. Ever.

[azureblue]

10. Wife & I have tried to watch

Spike Lee's "If God is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise" twice. Me, having lived there for years and my wife a native, we could not make it through the movie. We would start crying. Spike showed the truth- real, unvarnished and in your face. It exposes the appalling stupidity of Bush and his bunch of morons, and, when that empty headed grinning idiot comes on the screen to tell everybody that "help is one the way" I just want to throw a brick at the TV. Especially when you see the horror the residents of New Orleans went through, and still are living in to this day..

This week end, if you have not seen the Movie, please, in honor of the city and the people dies in the Flood, please watch it.

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. I saw about half and fell asleep

Not from the film. LOL. Long day at work.

I plan on watching it again this weekend.

[wtmusic]

11. If I recall correctly, Brian was busy shilling for W when it actually happened

and didn't give a rat's ass until he could make a buck doing a tearful retrospective.

I'll pass.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

16. Thank you. That's exactly how I remember him.

Anderson Cooper he is not.

[Hannah Bell]

14. another reason bush = murderer. they did it on purpose so people would die. i hate that slimy

worthless scumbag.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I had a bumper sticker on my car for a couple years

THEY IMPEACHED FOR MONICA
WHY NOT KATRINA

[Hannah Bell]

17. he should have been impeached & more. worst president/war criminal ever.

just a slimy gangster.

i caught just a bit of the brian williams thing -- the bit with him dropping down into NO to "comfort" the people, the shitsack. they should have lynched him.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. The important thing was to turn the page, look forward,

pretend nothing bad happened. Too bad a person with some ethics did not get into office, a person who cared about justice. Too bad indeed.
Remember Condi Rice shoe shopping during Katina? I do.

[aquart]

19. Not ever.

And I'm still waiting for an accurate body count.

[Fuzz]

23. I was just going to post about it. Watching it now. Heartbreaking.

And it's pissing me off all over again.

[Dappleganger]

24. We taped it to watch together.

My husband, myself and our three older teens.

There aren't too many people that I hate but I fucking hate George Bush!

[NOLALady]

26. Can't watch.

The memories are still fresh and painful.