Those little spins that they put on things was all that was needed for the bush*bots to blame the victims. Amazing how anyone would believe that communities that had been completely destroyed would have the ability to coordinate resucue/aide with other communities. Those government officials who tried were either cut-off, ignored, or blackmailed for gop political gains.
BOMBSHELL MEMOS released: Blanco BEGGED Bush for Katrina help!"I have determined that this incident will be of such severity and magnitude that effective response will be beyond the capabilities of the state and the affected local governments and that supplementary federal assistance will be necessary," Blanco wrote.
Three days after the storm, Blanco wrote Bush asking that the 256th Louisiana National Guard Brigade be sent home from Iraq to help. The governor also asked for more generators, medicine, health care workers and mortuaries.
Five days later, Bush assistant Maggie Grant e-mailed Blanco aide Paine Gowen to say that the White House did not receive the letter.
"We found it on the governor's Web site but we need 'an original,' for our staff secretary to formally process the requests she is making," Grant wrote. "We are on the job but appreciate your help with a technical request. Tnx!"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051204/ap_on_re_us/katrina_documentshttp://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=5511637&mesg_id=5511637 There are other articles that I can't find right now. Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish stated that FEMA kept cutting his communication lines, that they insisted had to be in control of everything.
Yeah, the administration put the spin out there for those gullible enough to swallow, and as expected a number of them did. :mad:
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