Doctor says Red Cross should have been there

[riverwalker]

Ok, so Red Cross was not in New Orleans because it would have been "in harms way" (that means if you crawl on glass about 100 miles away from the disaster, they MAY allow you to enter their air conditioned shelter and get a cup of water).

See: "Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food"

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm.

(So why couldn't they have loaded trucks for the NG to bring the supplies in?)

But why the heck aren't they at the airport?

"Doctor says Red Cross should have been there"

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September 3, 2005 12:56 PM

The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS "Where is the Red Cross?"

A doctor at the airport in New Orleans posed that question today to an Associated Press reporter. The doctor, one of the first to set up a triage center at the airport, says he wishes the Red Cross had been there, since the organization has the expertise to set up that kind of facility. He said he hasn't seen any Red Cross presence there.

And the picture that emerges is a bleak one. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a surgeon who visted the airport today, says the hallways and floors are "filled," and that people are dying because the resources aren't there to treat them.

[SillyGoose]

1. Its criminal that desperately needed resources were prevented from

getting into NO. There is no excuse for this. None whatsoever.

[MissMarple]

5. Well, Clara Barton would be quite angry. The military welcomed her help.

And Florence Nightingale, well, Florence flowed right past the army and set up shop. She didn't wait for protection, or permission. She fought the opposition to her nurses helping the wounded and ill. And the Army brass be damned.

Actually, I wonder if some of them weren't. :)

Florence reminds me of Cindy Sheehan. Strength, grace, honor and purpose defines them both.

[babylonsister]

2. I've heard they weren't there because they were told

it was 'too dangerous'. In fact, many people were told that. Makes me wonder, 'too dangerous' for who? And who was handling the info or spin-FEMA? This needs to be looked into. Major incompetence or downright eliticism or racism. Whatever happened, heads need to roll.

[uppityperson]

3. People are dieing because it has been too long and no resources and

those capable of getting the resources there didn't care. MrFrist.


Resources aren't there to treat them. Obviously. I hope this sticks in Frist's little mind and conscience for the rest of his life.

[caligirl]

4. Columbine, sheriff wouldn't let his men go in because

it was too dangerous, so kids were murdered instead of saved by those PAID to face the bullets.

[MissMarple]

6. People who were shot and could have lived died because of that.

And that is the truth. Columbine was a tragedy on so many levels. The clueless law enforcement was a major problem. One kid broke a window and fell out on his own. I watched on TV with both of my kids. A random group of officers did approach and bring him in. Otherwise, he would have died from his wounds.

The people in charge were clueless, and they were not heroes. They left innocents to die. They were cowards. The mothers would have done better.