Hurricane Katrina Devastates The Gulf Coast.

[phillymic2000]

the PC people will have a field day with the first incident where our troops fire on one of these jagbags.

Fine, shoot them too. Actually, shoot them first.

another great idea

[Sgt PSN]

the PC people will have a field day with the first incident where our troops fire on one of these jagbags.

Fine, shoot them too. Actually, shoot them first.

[T_Section224]

the PC people will have a field day with the first incident where our troops fire on one of these jagbags.

Fine, shoot them too. Actually, shoot them first.

brilliant

[TexasEagle]

You are not talking to a wall, I do realize that there is not enough troops, water or food there now.

Thank you! That's the first time you've said that. That they're not doing it fast enough is obvious to anyone that can hold a rational thought. That they don't have enough is what I've been saying and you were, until now, saying that wasn't so. So thank you for finally admitting it.

[Susquehanna Birder]

Like I suggested before, the plan to move people out of the area is just wrong. They should bring troops in, set up temporary living conditions (like a tent city) and start saving lives right there. Once the situation is stable and people aren't dying while they wait for help, they can attack the logisitical problem of moving people out and rebuiding.

[Diomedes]

Well I suppose they figure the city is so badly damaged that it has to be abandonded altogether, so they're fixated on evacuation rather than relief.

[Susquehanna Birder]

I'm just thinking that if they can mobilize assistance to places in very remote parts of the world, they sure as hell can do it in the deep south.

[TexasEagle]

Well I suppose they figure the city is so badly damaged that it has to be abandonded altogether, so they're fixated on evacuation rather than relief.

Which is why this is all farged up because they're not adquately prepared to evacuate the entire city and never have been. It seems like the people at the top just panicked and now don't have any idea how to get things back under control.

[rjs246]

This is boring. Will someone other than me start making jokes about this horrible disaster?

[phillymic2000]

You are not talking to a wall, I do realize that there is not enough troops, water or food there now.

Thank you! That's the first time you've said that. That they're not doing it fast enough is obvious to anyone that can hold a rational thought. That they don't have enough is what I've been saying and you were, until now, saying that wasn't so. So thank you for finally admitting it.

i think they have the resources and the troops, but getting into those areas has to be a nightmare, sorry I could not put my thoughts to words, it's been a loooong week.

[T_Section224]

This is boring. Will someone other than me start making jokes about this horrible disaster?

i've been calling for napalming the area since you first mentioned it.  it also solves another problem, the heat from the napalm would dry the area out, thus allowing the rebuilding process to start sooner.

[Diomedes]

It stopped being funny a while ago.  I just can't come up with a joke.  Show me some video of an armed looter getting his face shot off and then I'll laugh.

[mussa]

its like vice city new orleans style

[Drunkmasterflex]

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans' Charity Hospital halted efforts to evacuate its patients after it came under sniper fire, according to Dr. Tyler Curiel, who witnessed the incidents.
The attack came as New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin issued "a desperate SOS" for the thousands of people stranded in an around the city's convention center with no food or water and fading hope.
Curiel and his National Guard escorts, were returning to the hospital after dropping off patients at nearby Tulane Medical Center, when someone started shooting at their convoy of Humvees.
"We were coming in from a parking deck at Tulane Medical Center, and a guy in a white shirt started firing at us," Curiel said. "The National Guard (troops), wearing flak jackets, tried to get a bead on this guy. "
The incident happened around 11:30 a.m. (12:30 p.m. ET). About an hour later, another gunman opened fire at the back of Charity Hospital.
"We got back to Charity Hospital with with food from Tulane and we said, 'OK the snipers are behind us, let's move on,'" Curiel said. "We started loading patients (for transport) and 20 minutes later, shots rang out."
The National Guard soldiers told staff to get away from the windows, and evacuations were halted.
Charity Hospital has no electricity, no water and the only food available is couple of cans of vegetables and graham crackers.
Evacuations by boat were halted after armed looters threatened medics, and overturned one of their boats.
The sniper attacks were the latest incidents of violence that have disrupted efforts to help people in the flooded city.

So, why didn't the Guardsmen return fire?

My mother owns a daycare and one of the fathers is a full time guardsmen about to be deployed there.  His wife said they probably will not be given live ammunition.

[Diomedes]

My mother owns a daycare and one of the fathers is a full time guardsmen about to be deployed there. His wife said they probably will not be given live ammunition.

In that case, why go?  No, seriously.  Why go?  It's a dogfight.  You gotta be able to return fire.