Re: Bush is either a liar, or an idiot, or both.

Fred Bloggs wrote:

And then the stranded population in New Orleans was just a very small fraction of the total stranded all throughout the Gulf Coast. The military was ordered to mobilize a relief effort for the whole region- and this means ships and heavy air transport- and this is exactly what they are doing. They are not going to drop everything and possibly abandon the other people just to make a publicity coup for the group in New Orleans. And on top of that, New Orleans had security and control problems which required additional planning and deployment- makes their situation worse because it's going to take longer.

Crap.
Tens of thousands of people crowded into a small space without food, water or law should have been THE priority. It was certainly easy enough from a logistical POV.

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