Tonight (Monday), Nightline showed the USS Bataan docking in New Orleans. Bataan is a Marine assault ship with beds for hundreds, 100,000 gallons of fresh water per day, six operating rooms supporting a large hospital, a crew of 1200 Marines and sailors, and even electricity so that police could recharge their radios. It is basically a small aircraft carrier to support and transport thousands.
But wait, the USS Bataan was not dispatched from Norfolk VA? The USS Bataan has been sitting in the Gulf of Mexico all this week awaiting orders. The Bataan traveled north along the TX coast in 13 foot seas when Katrina was slowly moving onto New Orleans. The Bataan could have docked in New Orleans on Tuesday or Wednesday to dispatch its 1200 man crew on rescue missions, feed thousands, and house hundreds. But the Bataan sat out this entire week in the Gulf awaiting orders from top management - who we need not name again.
Today the Bataan docked in New Orleans apparently just ahead of its sister ship Iwo Jima and other ships from VA. Maybe Bataan was delayed from docking so that we would not notice it did not come from VA? More of the devil's details. Days after thousands died from lack of food, water, medical supplies, and rescue; suddenly the president is bragging about how he got things moving? Well these neocons did just as much on 11 September. Yet we reelected the mental midget. I need not mention where 85% of all problems come from. That someone is again back in the region for more press photo ops - and avoiding New Orleans.
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Navy ship nearby underused
If I had wrote these details weeks ago, you would have called it total fiction - improbable - complete fabrication. No president could be that stupid. But then the president's response to Katrina was just as unresponsive on 11 September. Show me otherwise. Show me where the president did anything useful on 11 September OR while thousands died from Katrina flooding. The USS Bataan was sitting *where* this whole time - not utilized? Who elected these leaders? Were they told to do so by god? It only proves god is punishing a city of sin. Look out Las Vegas. George Jr will save you too from yourselves.
Meanwhile FEMA has declared 13 states under Katrina Emergency Declaration:
Utah,
N Carolina,
Florida,
Georgia,
Texas,
Alabama,
Mississippi,
Louisiana,
Arkansas,
Tennessee,
Oklahoma, and even
West Virginia. By declaring so many states on Friday and Monday as victims of a hurricane one week past, then do these states also get no aid? Last time I looked, Katrina did not get anywhere near to Utah.
Meanwhile the county that busterb lives in (as best I can tell) is not designated by FEMA's Emergeny Declaration for Mississippi:
Quote:
This assistance is for the counties of Covington, Forrest, Hancock, Harrison, Jackson, Jefferson Davis, Jones, Lamar, Marion, Pearl River, and Stone.
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Normally I would have done more investigation before reporting this list of states. But why bother any more? At this point, FEMA and the administration are guilty until proven innocent. The only question remaining is what did they do right. FEMA's UnderSecretary is a George Jr political appointee. Need we say any more? Like breeds like.
Just wondering what that Presidential Daily Briefing predicted about Katrina and the levees of New Orleans? Not that this President reads his PDBs. After all, George Jr said nobody expected a Category 5 hurricane to breach Category 3 levees; contrary to what his PDBs would have reported. Just wondering how bad that unread PDB said this hurricane was expected to be. You remember those unread PDBs, such as the one warning of 11 September terrorist attacks.
Anyone want to complain about the term 'mental midget'? It was never an exaggeration. I even read his autobiography before I decided the term was fully appropriate.
