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MojoXN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:48 PM
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I just cried my eyes out after watching the convention center video
Jesus, those poor human beings! They're starving, thirsty, and dying. And where's the help? Where's the National Guard? Where's the money? I wish that I wasn't in the middle of a college semester. I want nothing more than to go down there and HELP, but I can't. Here's to the Big Easy... what's left of her, anyway.

La cession d'une grande ville américaine! Au revoir, Noveau Orleans! Mai vos enfants vivent longtemps et prospèrent!

MojoXN
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Pirate Smile Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:49 PM
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1. Did they show it on the Nightly News? Did they show the interview
with the camera man who shot the footage.
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BlueJac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:49 PM
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2. If Cameras are there why not food and water?
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SlipperySlope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:51 PM
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4. How much food and water do you expect a cameraman to carry on his back?
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BlueJac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:55 PM
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6. Meaning if the camera got there.....duh!
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SlipperySlope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:59 PM
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8. Sorry - misunderstood.
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:51 PM
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3. The most shocking, most riveting, most devastating report yet. LINK HERE.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9160710

You can click "LAUNCH" under the photo and watch the entire report.

Be prepared.
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MojoXN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:54 PM
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5. This is what I saw...
My God. My heart breaks. I can't imagine... I just can't. Dear God, bring those people through this safely.

MojoXN
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:03 PM
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9. It says the video is not available
must be too busy?
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VolcanoJen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:11 PM
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14. I just tried again and it worked.
Keep trying! I'm sure the link is pretty busy.

If you still can't get to it, watch Olbermann tonight, where it will probably be repeated. Or keep an eye on www.crooksandliars.com. They'll probably host it soon.
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:05 PM
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11. How hard can it be to show up ther with 1000 NG troops and a bunch of food
What is so damn difficult.
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Biased Liberal Media Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:09 PM
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13. Oh my god...
Just no words...

:cry:
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Tinoire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:15 PM
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15. Wow. Thank you for the link Jen.
Havne't watched it yet because I'm at work but I read the story and it has my in tears. The mind boggles, simply boggles.


    TONY ZUMBADO: I've gotta tell you, I thought I'd seen it all, but just when you think you've seen it all, you go into another situation and you see something horrific. I've never seen anything in my life like this. ... I can't put it into words the amount of destruction that is in this city and how these people are coping. They are just left behind. There is nothing offered to them. No water, no ice, no C-rations, nothing, for the last four days.

    They were told to go to the convention center. They did, they've been behaving. It's unbelievable how organized they are, how supportive they are of each other. They have not started any mêlées, any riots ... they just want food and support. And what I saw there I've never seen in this country.

    We need to really look at this situation at the convention center. It's getting very very crazy in there and very dangerous. Somebody needs to come down with a lot of food and a lot of water. There's no hostility there ... they need support. These people are very desperate. I saw two gentlemen die in front of me because of dehydration. I saw a baby near death.

    I went back with Harry Connick Jr. He spoke to them and told them he would do anything he can to help them. They seemed to appreciate that. He's the only person of authority - believe it or not, a musician -- to go in there and tell them that things are going to be ok.

    (snip)

    ZUMBADO: The sanitation was unbelievable. The stench in there... was unbelievable. Dead people around the walls of the convention center, laying in the middle of the street in their dying chairs. ... They were just covered up ... Babies, two babies dehydrated and died. I'm telling you, I couldn't take it.
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jillan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 05:57 PM
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7. I have been in tears all day too!
Did you see that man on CNN this morning?

He was saying
I'm tired
I'm thirsty
My head hurts
on and on
and he said
He is totally spent.

I CAN'T STAND THIS!!!!!
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MojoXN Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:09 PM
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12. Neither can I. I can't watch the death of a city.
Now I know exactly how the Iraqis felt watching us raze Fallujah. I know how the residents of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia felt after the tsunami last year. My God, I've never seen something so horrible before, and I sincerely hope that I never have to again.

MojoXN
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faithnotgreed Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:05 PM
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10. kick for love
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:20 PM
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16. omg, I'm bawling. omg omg. nt
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nonconformist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-01-05 06:41 PM
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17. kick for the babies. nt
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