Hurricane Katrina Damage

[pretence]

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A lot of the problem is that so many of the troops are out fighting "wars" in different counturies. Resources are spread too thin to react in time to a crisis of this size in a timely fashion. 2 billion has already been spent on the "war" in Iraq. Bush needs a reality check stop thinking about his greed and start thinking about the people.

[DreamGirlie]

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http://www.homesforkatrina.com/

http://www.openyourhome.com/

[pretence]

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http://www.homesforkatrina.com/

http://www.openyourhome.com/

Have you offered your home?

[EvenSteven]

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^Have you stopped drinking Guiness long enough to form an intelligent thought?

[pretence]

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^Have you stopped drinking Guiness long enough to form an intelligent thought?

Whats Guiness? We only have Guinness here.

Care to clarify Steve?

[TomTom]

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I wouldn't blame Bush for doing nothing. From the outsider perspective I have by watching TV and reading newspaper, it looks to me like it is all a bit unorganized and I don't know if you guys in America are aware of this but the World asks itself why it takes so long to help people and why they do it on their own only. We had a (not comparable to the Hurricane because it was way smaller and didn?t result in such a horrible amount of Destruction) flood here in Germany last month and Soldiers from France and Belgium came to our aid and helped German Soldiers in the crisis center. Aid organisations like the Red Cross and others did their best in rescuing people and saving anything that can be saved...I see no shame in that but an opportunity for countries for a closer relationship as a positive side effect. What Politics can achieve speaking of tolerating and welcoming other nations in 10 years can be done from people who work together for 2 weeks in a crisis IMO. I just read that the European Union has offered help as well and it is known to the US government for Civil Security (don't know if this bureau is called like that, I translated it from the News) but so far they did not even bother to answer.

[Jenks]

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Seeing a lot of, "I heard this" "I heard that"...

anyone care to quote actual sources from print or news media? or is all this information/misinformation coming via carrier pigeon?

[TomTom]

What would you do with a link to a German newspaper?

http://www.n-tv.de/574780.html

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID4692830,00.html

here you can read two articles if Google is any help in translating. These are from official and serious news sites and not from yellow press magazines...you should know me better, Bryan. :wink:

[skahound]

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or is all this information/misinformation coming via carrier pigeon?

[Kinetic]

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^^^

Actually TomTom, that reminds me...when I went home about two hours ago, they were talking on the news with a guy from a Portuguese organization who specializes in these situations (A.M.I.), and he was saying something along the lines of :

- I?ve worked with American emergency relief teams in various parts of the world, namely Bosnia, Congo, and Indonesia, they have the best knowledge, the best equipment, the best expertise, I can?t understand what?s happening, when the most powerful country in the world, the country with the largest ammount of resources fails to deal with this situation so completely. I know how they work, so I am utterly dumbfounded by what?s happening...

Then there was this UN guy being interviewed on CNN, the reporter kept dogging him "why aren?t you helping more? What are the other countries doing, what are they offering?", and all the guy kept saying was "well, we have everything ready, we just haven?t been asked for help yet, we can?t just force our way into a country like that".

As a side note, which is somewhat related, it was also in the news yesterday that there was a massive earthquake drill in Japan involving 1 million people. They say they?re preparing for the "Big One"

[DreamGirlie]

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http://www.homesforkatrina.com/

http://www.openyourhome.com/

Have you offered your home?

I dont have any room so why would I

[FM]

The Mayor is getting pissed...and rightfully so...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.nagin/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html

About time someone started to speak up...

Now there's fires breaking out...boy if things can't get any worse...

[evangelion]

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Seeing a lot of, "I heard this" "I heard that"...

anyone care to quote actual sources from print or news media? or is all this information/misinformation coming via carrier pigeon?

I'm my own news service. What do you want to know???

[toasty]

The Mayor is getting pissed...and rightfully so...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.nagin/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html

About time someone started to speak up...

Now there's fires breaking out...boy if things can't get any worse...

That's a spectacular rant. I don't know that I've ever heard a politician speak so bluntly.

[picklemonkey]

The Mayor is getting pissed...and rightfully so...

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.nagin/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html

About time someone started to speak up...

Now there's fires breaking out...boy if things can't get any worse...

And one of the things people -- nobody's talked about this. Drugs flowed in and out of New Orleans and the surrounding metropolitan area so freely it was scary to me, and that's why we were having the escalation in murders. People don't want to talk about this, but I'm going to talk about it.

You have drug addicts that are now walking around this city looking for a fix, and that's the reason why they were breaking in hospitals and drugstores. They're looking for something to take the edge off of their jones, if you will.

And right now, they don't have anything to take the edge off. And they've probably found guns. So what you're seeing is drug-starving crazy addicts, drug addicts, that are wrecking havoc. And we don't have the manpower to adequately deal with it. We can only target certain sections of the city and form a perimeter around them and hope to God that we're not overrun.

I'm surprised he said that.