Roland99
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Fri Sep-16-05 11:34 AM
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Anyone just listen to Fresh Air? Who was that guy talking of FEMA denying |
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aid from coming into the city? He saw it first-hand. Seems to be several different stories today and I can't tell which one was this guy: http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13
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Fri Sep-16-05 11:46 AM
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1. Many countries, many citizens and many organizations, including the |
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Red Cross, were denied into NOLA and were sent away. Mayor Daley, Chicago, offered fire trucks, rescue vehicles, boats, manpower and other things and FEMA said no. Needless to say, DALEY WAS PISSED. There were ships loaded and ready to head to the US from other countries and FEMA never got back to the countries with an answer. France offered water purification systems and were told no. Cuba and Venezuela offered help too. Cuba offered to send 1500 doctors. Chavez offered cheap fuel to the victims. Both were told to take a hike. Many, many trucks loaded with food and water were sent away.
One would think this administration wanted the Gulfcoast citizens to suffer. :grr:
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Roland99
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Fri Sep-16-05 11:52 AM
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Well, this guy some stuff first-hand...very good eyewitness account. |
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He was saying he saw first-hand several incidences of FEMA turning back aid. If a truck wasn't on their clipboard, it was turned away. Civilians who's rescued people (some schizophrenic, some in pain, some diabetic, etc.) and brought them to dry land where FEMA officials were located were told that they would be taken to hospitals. This guy didn't trust them and came back hours later and the same people were still sitting there, unattended to.
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Fri Sep-16-05 12:08 PM
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4. He should be a witness at the Katrina investigation hearings |
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Bush is going to have. :eyes: I'm sure he'll be first in line to testify. :sarcasm:
That is unbelievable.
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Roland99
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Fri Sep-16-05 12:09 PM
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5. O.J. will be subpoenaing him soon |
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Fri Sep-16-05 12:30 PM
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6. That sounds about right. n/t |
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Fri Sep-16-05 11:52 AM
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2. New York Times reporter |
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His name escapes me - but NY Times reporter who had been on the scene from the beginning and a native of New Orleans.
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Fri Sep-16-05 11:52 AM
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3. He wasn't a native...his wife was. He'd moved there. |
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Edited on Fri Sep-16-05 11:52 AM by Roland99
Drawn by lore of the Mississippi River. :)
But, thanks!
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Roland99
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Fri Sep-16-05 02:09 PM
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7. It was Douglas Brinkley! Here's the audio now! |
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Edited on Fri Sep-16-05 02:31 PM by Roland99
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Jeanette in FL
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Fri Sep-16-05 02:31 PM
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8. Do you mean Douglas Brinkley |
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He is a professor and historian.
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Fri Sep-16-05 02:31 PM
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9. oops....brain fart....fixed. |
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Fri Sep-16-05 02:39 PM
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10. People are DIEING and these asshole's |
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get into a PISSING CONTEST??!!:mad:
I hope every stinking one of them answers for their crimes.
Bastards.
People died because they wanted the power...
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