[cLaY]

5 days later, troops with food and buses ready to evacuate everyone left in the city...not a moment too soon :roll:

[Tribal Dragon]

Chimpeach!

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

NEW ORLEANS - Four days after Hurricane Katrina struck, the National Guard arrived in force Friday with food, water and weapons — rolling through floodwaters in a vast truck convoy with orders to retake the streets and bring relief to the suffering.

But Mayor Ray Nagin issued an urgent statement indicating that a single convoy would not save the city. He warned that thousands of residents could die if remaining water supplies are cut off or contaminated, and that 50,000 residents were still on rooftops or shelters awaiting rescue.

“We’re holding on by a thread,” he said. “Time has run out.”

The trucks began arriving at the New Orleans Convention Center, where 15,000 to 20,000 hungry and desperate refugees were stranded even though the site is accessible by vehicles.

For a day or more, corpses have lain abandoned outside the building, and many storm refugees have complained bitterly that they had been forsaken by the government.

The open-topped trucks carried huge boxes of relief supplies. Soldiers sat in the backs of some of the trucks, their rifles pointing skyward.

Some of the thousands awaiting their deliverance applauded, threw their hands heavenward and screamed, “Thank you, Jesus!” as the camouflage-green trucks and hundreds of soldiers arrived. But there was also anger and profane catcalls.

“Hell no, I’m not glad to see them. They should have been here days ago. I ain’t glad to see ’em, I’ll be glad when 100 buses show up,” said Michael Levy, whose words were echoed by those around him yelling, “Hell, yeah! Hell, yeah!”

“We’ve been sleeping on the ... ground like rats,” Levy said. “I say burn this whole ... city down.”

President Bush, before leaving for a trip to the region, cited the problems at the convention center and said 600 military police would be sent to help distribute food and water in an orderly fashion.

The president, who was to visit the New Orleans airport later Friday, also said that overall the relief “results are not acceptable” — a blunt criticism of federal efforts so far.

City officials have seethed with anger about what they called a slow federal response.

“They don't have a clue what's going on down there,” Mayor Nagin told WWL-AM Thursday night. "Excuse my French, everybody in America, but I am pissed.”

As Bush arrived in Alabama to start his tour, the convoy of two dozen trucks and some 100 buses protected by National Guardsmen made its way into New Orleans on Interstate 90. NBC's Carl Quintanilla reported from aboard one bus that the buses were heading to the Superdome to pick up evacuees there.

Lt. Gen. Steven Blum of the National Guard said 7,000 more National Guardsmen arriving in Louisiana on Friday would help restore order in New Orleans, where armed robberies, rapes and assaults have been reported.

“They have M-16s and they’re locked and loaded,” Gov. Kathleen Blanco said earlier. “These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will.”

But Blum also underscored that the guardsmen's primary mission was to "save Louisiana citizens." The only thing we are attacking is the effects of this hurricane,” he said. Blum said that a huge airlift of supplies was landing Friday and that it signaled “the cavalry is and will continue to arrive.”

At some of New Orleans’ most troubled hospitals, where desperate doctors were being forced to make tough choices about which patients got dwindling supplies of food, water and medicines, evacuations resumed Friday.

Rescuers finally made it into Charity Hospital, the largest public hospital and trauma center in the city, where gunshots prevented efforts on Thursday to evacuate more than 250 patients.

“We moved all of the babies out of Charity this morning,” said Keith Simon, spokesman for Acadian Ambulance Service Inc.

While floodwaters in the city appeared to stabilize, the commander of the Army Corps of Engineers, Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, said “we’re certainly talking weeks” to fix levee breaches that range from several hundred feet wide to 3,000 feet.

[SanDog]

"The damn welfare checks better not bounce. That is all I have to say." added Michael Levy.

[cLaY]

if the National Guard had been there, those gunshots would have been prevented.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

if the National Guard had been there, those gunshots would have been prevented.

if that hurricane hadn't formed, the storm surge wouldn't have happened. if the levees had been stronger the city wouldn't have flooded. if......

[SanDog]

if that hurricane hadn't formed, the storm surge wouldn't have happened. if the levees had been stronger the city wouldn't have flooded. if......

But I want to blame Bush and Iraq!!!

[SanDog]

Did you know that there were over 150 school buses that are sitting under water in NO? I wonder why they did not fill them with people and get them out of town?

Mayor? Governor? Any response?

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

Did you know that there were over 150 school buses that are sitting under water in NO? I wonder why they did not fill them with people and get them out of town?

Mayor? Governor? Any response?

Bush thought of that, but the guy that he told to do it was sent to Iraq and forgot to tell anyone.

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9173940/site/newsweek

[SanDog]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9173940/site/newsweek

Did you listen to that?

[Flumper Barflusterbutt]

Did you listen to that?

yeah, the dude is a nut. if that is the best the city has to offer and is high on their food chain, then its easy to see why they are in deep shit.

did you hear where he doesn't want "school buses". He wants friggin "Grey Hounds". 500 of them. I'll bet he wants tv's in them too.

Fucktard.

[SanDog]

yeah, the dude is a nut. if that is the best the city has to offer and is high on their food chain, then its easy to see why they are in deep shit.

did you hear where he doesn't want "school buses". He wants friggin "Grey Hounds". 500 of them. I'll bet he wants tv's in them too.

Fucktard.

I did not even understand that. What fucking difference does it make? And the looters are all looking for a fix. I have never seen a man inject a flat screen before.....

[Jdub]

I did not even understand that. What fucking difference does it make? And the looters are all looking for a fix. I have never seen a man inject a flat screen before.....

You ought to see that shit, you'd think you did the drugs!

[snarg]

Here fucking here! If you were put in this same situation, what the fuck would you do? I'd go ape shit. So fucking sad, and I hope this goes down on G.W. I hope his punk ass is remembered for failing the citizens of N.O.

"failing the citizens of N.O."
wtf, wake up motherfucker, this asshole has failed every citizen of the US since the day of his election

it's about time some of you fucking morons are noticing it

he is a lying piece of scum, or maybe he is just a stupid bastard who got manipulated

either way, he is not presidential material for a once-great country that is going down the tubes

wake up and smell the coffee, this guy has not got a damn clue

[snarg]

The Saints should play in Vegas this season.

hahahahaha
this should not have been missed, paddy, rack you, mf
:loool:

[snarg]

NO is 70% African American and 30% impoverished. I'd like to see how the relief effort woulda gone if Katrina had hit in the Hamptons.

It does look like they're getting some relief out there today, though. Better late than never.

dead on, dog, good to see that all the "bleeding hearts" have not succumbed (sup, hillary?)

[Tribal Dragon]

"failing the citizens of N.O."
wtf, wake up motherfucker, this asshole has failed every citizen of the US since the day of his election

it's about time some of you fucking morons are noticing it

he is a lying piece of scum, or maybe he is just a stupid bastard who got manipulated

either way, he is not presidential material for a once-great country that is going down the tubes

wake up and smell the coffee, this guy has not got a damn clue

Note to Republicans, get off Bush's cock. He's giving you all a bad name.