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Re: Theos-World US Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, gave a grade "F" ....

Sep 02, 2005 04:26 PM
by Iain


Dear All,
I ,like everyone in the UK are horrified, saddened by what has happened and still is happening in Louisiana.And our heartfelt goodwishes and thoughts are with all that are suffering, cold wet hungry and lacking in shelter.
It appears so out of place, that the most powerful nation in the world,with so much resourses at its disposal along with manpower has been so totally inept at co-coordinating a reasonable response.
Rioting , looting and lawlessness are occurring .rescue of people has been stopped so that police can deal with looters...WHAT ARE THE PRIORITIES? Do you save a life or a TV SET!!! The material stuff will be insured it will be written off as 1)soiled2) damaged, so big deal! Why are more lives not being saved? Is it because it is the Frail, elderly,Infirm, the poorest of the poor.The cannon-fodder of society, All are expendable.to the big business .idiom.
Panic!! they've shut down oil production, prices will go sky high. Profits will suffer,prices will have to go up world wide,Oh, those poor dealers at the stock exchange,how they must be suffering, Shall we send them foodparcels?
I see President Bush,( what a wonderful man- has sacrificed his well-earned vacation to deal with this, he has had a trip in his helicopter to see for himself the damage. Personally I would have commandeered every available helicopter to rescue people still trapped on their roofs, or evacuated injured/ill people to hospitals further afield in neibouring states..
cheers for now
Iain
----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel H. Caldwell" <danielhcaldwell@yahoo.com>
To: <theos-talk@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 8:19 PM
Subject: Theos-World US Senator David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, gave a grade "F" ....


See last paragraph of the following article:
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- US Senator David Vitter said that the death toll from Hurricane
Katrina could top 10,000 in Louisiana alone.

"My guess is that it will start at 10,000, but that is only a
guess," Vitter said, adding that he was not basing his remarks on
any official death toll or body count.

Vitter, a Louisiana Republican, also called for the immediate
deployment of regular US combat troops in New Orleans, saying the
build-up of National Guard troops was too slow to quickly restore
order.

Such a step would require Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco to
formally request the dispatch of federal army soldiers, a highly
unusual step.

Blanco said on Thursday that she had asked for 40,000 troops, the
majority of which are National Guard units from Louisiana and
elsewhere.

Five-thousand National Guard troops are expected to be on the ground
in violence-wracked New Orleans by late Friday, military leaders
said.

But Vitter said that timeline could be too slow, amid reports that
bands of armed men are roaming the streets in the city, which is 80
percent submerged in floods brought in by a storm tide after the
hurricane hit on Monday.

Vitter, speaking to reporters at the emergency response center in
Baton Rouge, also said he gave the federal government a grade 'F'
for its response to the disaster so far.
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Quoted from:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050902/pl_afp/usweatherdeaths








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