WTF?!? The buses were waiting just 20 miles outside N.O. for 2 DAYS?!?

Just heard that reported on NBC.

They were told they could NOT enter the city because of the security concern.

And we all know how much misinformation has been spread about the violence.

completely stopped a military operation for 3 days??? thats the biggest load of crap. we shouldve left Iraq in March if that was the case.

I'm just a civilian but the arrival of a few thousand National Guardsmen and a no bullshit general seem to have quelled the violence pretty damn quickly.

Maybe, Just maybe, they like could have put the National Guardsmen on the busses to make sure they got where they were going. Maybe if civilian drivers were afraid to go in there they could have had National Guard troops drive the busses?

What an incredible fucked up mess.

on every bus and it never happened until 2 days later.

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This is totally, completely outrageous.

They also kept the Red Cross from entering the city, because 'if the RC brought in food people wouldn't leave'

What the GD F**K?!!!!

WTF?!?!?


Like people would WANT to go INTO the hellhole if they were already OUT OF IT?!?

all the way to the top and clear to the bone, doesn't it?

that mentioned that armed people were in the Conv. Ctr. and the Nat'l Guard better be prepared when they show up.

when they reached the Convention Center:

Met by Despair, Not Violence
As they begin to patrol the chaotic city, troops are surprised by what they don't find.

snip




The truck lurched through the streets, past buildings burning unabated and MPs in gun turrets. When they stopped to gear up for their arrival at the New Orleans Convention Center, where more than 15,000 people had been living in squalor since Katrina, these words echoed — for the first time, one would imagine — through the intersection of Poydras Avenue and Carondelet Street: "Lock and load!"

"Sixteen in the clip!" one Guardsman shouted, a common refrain used to indicate that rifles are fully loaded.


But when they arrived, they did not find marauding mobs. They did not come under fire. They found people who had lost everything in the storm and, since then, their dignity.

more, much more

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-troops3sep03,1,3550798.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

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Aren't they trained to be ready to defend our country in a moments notice? Heaven helps us.

they'd not gotten the word from the White House to move in.

They weren't authorized for law enforcement under the preexisting arrangements according to one article. Authorization was given Thursday night.

They had to request authorization; it came, apparently (note the word 'apparently') quickly, after the request was made and got to the right person.

People have been fairly mum, as far as I can tell, as to where the hold up was: realizing the NG weren't authorized, requesting authorization, or properly routing the request for authorization.

and have his photo op.

:thumbsup:

yay.

for electing Landrieu and Blanco. JMHO, of course.

so they can rebuild a facist vacation land and populate with the right kind of folks----that's my take at least---make the experience so horrible that people would not want back in----eminant domain/homeland security take the land and viola a shining new right wing city-fuck them