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rrrevolution Donating Member (295 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:18 AM
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BRACE YOURSELF--Huge # Begin Dying today--Then Rise of Disease!
You cannot go longer than 3 days without water. People are reaching that limit today. The number of dying is getting ready to go straight up.

Already bodies are piling up in the buildings and in the water. Third World countries know that dysentery kills more people than any other thing --naturally arises from dead bodies and lack of sanitations.

We are facing a major health crisis as disease takes hold. THis was the major consideration when the order was given that the entire city of New Orleans be evacuated.

THe truth -- there is no way logistically to evacuate everyone, and many are going to die while waiting.
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Birthmark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:20 AM
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1. We might not be able to evacuate...
...everyone in some arbitrary time. But we could get them food and water and supplies enough to survive to until rescue can be effected. This is nothing short of murder.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:21 AM
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3. Agreed. ** needs to hang (at least figuratively) for this.
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bluedog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:21 AM
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2. BUSH lets His own PEOPLE DIE!
BUSH lets His own PEOPLE DIE


our own American people are dying of thrist......without food.without medical..dead bidies floating or thrown on the side of the road......this is the America......George W Bush has brought............remind you of anyone else?
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:23 AM
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5. but, there was CAKE!
and he has to get on with his life...
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:29 AM
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13. Ah. Saddam? Or so they would have us believe anyway.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:21 AM
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4. Where's Cheney, the Director of National Preparedness?
Have a bad feeling. No way to save people. No way to salvage the city. When do the levees give way and wash the problem away?
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stopbush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:25 AM
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8. Remember Galveston? 6,000 dead. They took the bodies out to
sea and dumped them. A few days later they started washing up on the beaches.

There's no *washing away* the dead.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:27 AM
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10. They work on the premis of dealing with immediate appearances
No one will see bodies washing up if they don't allow it. America is too trained to 'outta sight, outta mind' That is why reporters and camera crews are not showing the reality of the situation now.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:31 AM
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14. Nazis use fucking ovens!
And Bush IS a Nazi!
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:35 AM
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17. Gotta tell ya, I was nervous about loading people onto busses...
Think I might have bolted and taken my chances on my own in the water with the track record these bastards have.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:36 AM
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18. You're right. They can distract the slow ones in the country
by showing looting clips over and over. They'll never wonder why that was ALL they learned about this whole event.
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fudge stripe cookays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:27 AM
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11. Yes,
pretty soon they're going to have to start funeral pyres to prevent more disease spreading. And people may never know anything about their loved ones.

FSC
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Gruenemann Donating Member (753 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:34 AM
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16. And then it took months to burn them all. eom
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:50 AM
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23. He's too busy working on the plan for the next "terrorist" attack.
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:24 AM
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6. Good God ......
....... get those people water now. This is a national disgrace. Call the teamsters
and truck water in 24/7 .... deal harshly w/ anybody that is caring a gun ......

Nationalize what needs to be nationalized ....

Bring in med students and student nurses from 500 miles around.

the death count is going to be staggering.
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tuckessee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:24 AM
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7. A Dunkirk type operation....
...involving loosely organized private volunteers and their boats mounted immediately after the storm and before armed looting began could have easily rescued the vast majority of those whom FEMA has now condemed to death.
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Hell Hath No Fury Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:45 AM
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21. Exactly!
Why isn't every private plane/chopper in the uneffected surrounding areas being used to transport food/water by air into the city until those folks can be rescued????

I cannot believe what I am seeing!
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Pathwalker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:26 AM
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9. But, but...a professor said on CNN dead bodies
pose no health threat WHATSOEVER - that this is just some kooky idea the press has! Also critcized the media for being irresponsible by saying dead bodies can cause health problems! He said the biggest threat now is...WEST NILE VIRUS!!!

And NO!, I'm not kidding!
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:28 AM
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12. It may not have been possible to evacuate EVERYONE, but there appears
to have been NO consideration given to any plan for TRYING to evacuate those few hundred thousand without the money or means to evacuate themselves, without cars etc.

It is, quite simply, a disgrace.
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GumboYaYa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:34 AM
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15. I've reached my breakingpoint today.
It has been a horrible week watching my city be destroyed. The thought of all those people needlessly dying is too much. I know without question that some of them are my closest and dearest friends.

I held back the tears as long as could, but I can't deal with it anymore. Sorry, I know this is not about me and my grief, but I can't take it anymore and just had to say it.
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SpaceCatMeetsMars Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:38 AM
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19. So sorry, it is such a beautiful city with such lovely people.
It is just heartbreaking.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:40 AM
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20. Sad news, Gumbo Ya Ya. Don't know how you can stand it.
I hope you get some unexpected GOOD news, but things can't get much worse, it seems.
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gypsy11 Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 11:48 AM
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22. Why should he waste his "beautiful mind"
on death? :sarcasm:

I am so angry, I am beyond words. Fucking piece of shit asshole.
I hope he and his ilk suffer just as much, if not more. :mad:
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