Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[Susquehanna Birder]

The authorities are now calling off the rescue boats because the crowds of victims are getting icreasingly hostile.

Face it - a bunch of little boats and a few buses ain't going to do it. It's about time to start treating this almost like an invasion. The 82nd (and 101st) need to drop in there with supplies, field sanitation equipment, and armed escorts to control the situation while a larger scale rescue is run.

[T_Section224]

there is always the rjs-plan

[rjs246]

A few amphibious assault vehicles and a carpet bomb or seven should clear up that situation.

[phillymic2000]

you have my vote!

[mussa]

i say fill in the fargin hole in the ground...residents, buildings, seals...all off it and rebuild...ABOVE fargIN SEA LEVEL

[TexasEagle]

The authorities are now calling off the rescue boats because the crowds of victims are getting icreasingly hostile.

Face it - a bunch of little boats and a few buses ain't going to do it. It's about time to start treating this almost like an invasion. The 82nd (and 101st) need to drop in there with supplies, field sanitation equipment, and armed escorts to control the situation while a larger scale rescue is run.

Now the "rescue" has turned into a nightmare. They've botched this situation from the start and now they don't know how to adequately fix it (sounds like the Iraq situation). They're transporting people in school busses for God's sake. Get something bigger and get the people out of there. This is one HUGE clusterfarg right now.

[phillymic2000]

The authorities are now calling off the rescue boats because the crowds of victims are getting icreasingly hostile.

Face it - a bunch of little boats and a few buses ain't going to do it. It's about time to start treating this almost like an invasion. The 82nd (and 101st) need to drop in there with supplies, field sanitation equipment, and armed escorts to control the situation while a larger scale rescue is run.

Now the "rescue" has turned into a nightmare. They've botched this situation from the start and now they don't know how to adequately fix it (sounds like the Iraq situation). They're transporting people in school busses for God's sake. Get something bigger and get the people out of there. This is one HUGE clusterfarg right now.

What the Heck are you talking about. "They" i can only imagine you mean the goverment. You are kidding right? The residents, aka looters and thugs are making this worse, they are shooting at the helicopters that are there to help, they are setting fires near the superdome, they are carjacking trucks and cars, they are turning over ambulances when they are trying to evacuate the hospital. This is the fault of the idiots taking advantage of the situation. What the heck are they going to get in there bigger then school buses, the whole area is wrecked. The goverment, the military, the local police, the red cross are doing everything they can.

[rjs246]

If I were stuck on my roof I would hang my ass off the edge and drop turd after turd into the flood water and wait for the RPGs to put me out of my misery.

[MURP]

Bushy should be personally piloting  Air Force 1 over the area with ropes hanging out for people to grab to get outta there!

[Diomedes]

Face it - a bunch of little boats and a few buses ain't going to do it. It's about time to start treating this almost like an invasion. The 82nd (and 101st) need to drop in there with supplies, field sanitation equipment, and armed escorts to control the situation while a larger scale rescue is run.

Agreed.  Force is the only law there now.  Only a massive force will save the lives of the law abiding people who remain.  They're dying by the minute.  I think it's pretty simple.  Tell the soldiers to shoot anyone with a gun.  If you want to be nice, tell the people you've ordered the soldiers to do that.  (drop flyers).  Then send in 50,000 troops. 

[mussa]

If I were stuck on my roof I would hang my ass off the edge and drop turd after turd into the flood water and wait for the RPGs to put me out of my misery.

LMFAO

[T_Section224]

so we're back to the rjs-plan, behave yourself or we're going to napalm your arse.  i like it!

[TexasEagle]

The authorities are now calling off the rescue boats because the crowds of victims are getting icreasingly hostile.

Face it - a bunch of little boats and a few buses ain't going to do it. It's about time to start treating this almost like an invasion. The 82nd (and 101st) need to drop in there with supplies, field sanitation equipment, and armed escorts to control the situation while a larger scale rescue is run.

Now the "rescue" has turned into a nightmare. They've botched this situation from the start and now they don't know how to adequately fix it (sounds like the Iraq situation). They're transporting people in school busses for God's sake. Get something bigger and get the people out of there. This is one HUGE clusterfarg right now.

What the Heck are you talking about. "They" i can only imagine you mean the goverment. You are kidding right? The residents, aka looters and thugs are making this worse, they are shooting at the helicopters that are there to help, they are setting fires near the superdome, they are carjacking trucks and cars, they are turning over ambulances when they are trying to evacuate the hospital. This is the fault of the idiots taking advantage of the situation. What the heck are they going to get in there bigger then school buses, the whole area is wrecked. The goverment, the military, the local police, the red cross are doing everything they can.

No I'm not kidding you farging moron. There's people dying out there because the officials running this mess aren't doing the necessary things to save more lives. You act like the National Guard and the Military don't have guns of their own. There's people shooting? Shoot back, but go in there and HELP the people that are out there DYING and just trying to stay alive with no food, no water, and no farging shelter.

And no, they're not doing everything they can or they'd be increasing the efforts to fix this mess not telling them to stop helping people to keep folks from taking things out of stores. It's been three days and people are dying on the streets!

[phillymic2000]

One of the reasons they have stopped is because it's not safe, not just cause of looting. A day after the storm is when this started going bad, when the levee broke and started flooding the rest of the city. NO ONE could have forseen this destruction and mobilized equipment to remove the 50 to 60 thousand people left in the city, in the few days before this storm hit. There are a lot of people in that city that had the means and opportunity to leave the city, but no they thought they could ride out the storm, i really have a hard time feeling sorry for them, it's the people who did not have the means to leave that I feel for. THey are bussing the people to houston and San Antonio now, how the heck can you get 50-60 thousand people out of there faster?

[Diomedes]

The people at the Superdome are law abiding citizens who could not get out on their own, and who followed the official directions to the shelter.  They have been abandoned for all intents and purposes.