Can we try all those FEMA/National Guards who turned people away?

The stories are very firm that in this disaster, unlike any other, that assistance was turned away EVEN when it was known that people were dying from thirst and lack of medical care. Can we set up some trial system, just like they did after War World II, to identify all these low to middle level individuals who made choices that were criminal and inhuman and caused the death of too many people?

If we don't send a clear message now that saving people is far more important than saving property, New Orleans will become a model for our capitalist-influenced government bureacracy. Of it their purpose was to stop people from going in to witness the holocaust, then don't let them win. Witnesses did take names down. Let them tell the world what they saw, and let us decide what we want to do about it.

Someone with means should do a computer model using the current state of chaos as the norm and then use the "should have" scenario with all the supplies that were turned away, including that damn, empty hospital carrier sitting offshore~! I swear that really pisses me off!

He should be tried first. Most of those folks were following orders. That's the problem when you turn disaster relief into a military operation. No one told them that New Orleans wasn't Baghdad.

Fact: On August 26, 2005, President Bush declared a "State of Emergency" in Louisiana. He called this emergency an "Incident of National Significance." A day later he did the same for Mississippi.

Fact: The hurricane hit on August 29, 2005. THREE DAYS LATER.

Fact: By declaring Hurricane Katrina an "Incident of National Significance," he placed it within the National Response Plan.

Fact: The National Response Plans says their jurisdiction covers "... an actual or potential high-impact event that requires a coordinated and effective response by and appropriate combination of Federal, State, local, tribal, nongovernmental, and/or private-sector entities in order to save lives and minimize damage, and provide the basis for long-term community recovery and mitigation activities."

It seems pretty cut and dry to me. The National Response Plan had THREE DAYS to evacuate New Orleans. It didn't even try. That is negligence.

I have no proof...but a delay was obvious and the Gov was pissed.

Bush played politics and cost peoples lives...not the Gov