President Katrina's Death Toll in Lousiana : 1,086

Yollam

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Tue Dec-06-05 03:06 PM
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President Katrina's Death Toll in Lousiana : 1,086

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051129-043959-5881r

Katrina death toll rises in Louisiana
BATON ROUGE, La., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Louisiana's Department of Health and Hospitals reports 1,086 bodies have now been recovered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Seven of the bodies listed in Monday's report have been found since the department's previous report Nov. 18, the Baton Rouge Advocate said. At least 19 fatalities have been determined not to be victims of the hurricane.

Tara Lachney, a spokeswoman for the department, said area residents returning to their homes are continuing to find bodies. The state gave up its official search in early October.

The emergency morgue set up in St. Gabriel Parish has handled a total of 893 bodies with 435 released to families for burial. Of the remainder, 186 could be released, but families have not been located, two are awaiting autopsies and 270 are still unidentified.

Another 193 victims were reported by parish coroners, including 72 from East Baton Rouge.

People on the right often exhort us to "remember 9/11" (which is pretty galling, considering Bush caused it either through conspiracy or incompetence)

But are we going to fail in exhorting people to remember the pile of corpses almost as high caused by Bush's bungling in Louisiana and Mississippi?

Bush let them DROWN. Never forget.

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KamaAina

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Tue Dec-06-05 03:09 PM
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1. Over 6,000 are still listed as missing

The pile of corpses may eventually turn out to be even higher than that caused by King Dumbass**', Rice's and others' bungling -- or worse -- in NYC, DC and PA. :(

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BOSSHOG

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Tue Dec-06-05 03:10 PM
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2. And michael brown is walking around a free man

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Kurovski

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Tue Dec-06-05 03:18 PM
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3. A vote for remembrance.

I will never forget the images of the dead. I will never forget what I felt during those days when government stood back and watched, doing nothing.

Every "corpse" was a loved one. I saw my family, I saw myself. They all counted, and each one should be counted for the record of remembrance.

Make the Bush administration accountable for their inaction. Make them accountable for their lies. And make them accountable for whatever political or financial profit they sought to gain from their measured incompetence.

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DKStreet

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Tue Dec-06-05 03:43 PM
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4. A crime against humanity...eom

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Kurovski

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Tue Dec-06-05 10:21 PM
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5. *kick* (nt)

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mvd

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Wed Dec-07-05 04:12 PM
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6. Kicking

Edited on Wed Dec-07-05 04:12 PM by mvd

The death toll has been as blacked out as the anthrax attacks. Thanks for the reminder.

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