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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Road Walker who wrote (248729)9/2/2005 2:35:05 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (3) of 1572642
 
"They must be drinking the flood water."

Yes. As you note, the medical implications of that are staggering. Now they are say there are over 200k in New Orleans. The death toll will dwarf the WTC. There just isn't any way to avoid that.

All because Bush gutted FEMA. If the levees had been reinforced, they might not have broken. Maybe it would have happened any way. But FEMA failed in all of its functions in a way that boggles the imagination. They might not have been able to do anything about the ones that drowned, although you have to think with more people doing S&R even that might have been mitigated. But the deaths from malnutrition, inadequate medical care and disease picked up from the conditions can be laid directly on their door step. There was just a complete failure to take the steps that have always been done in the past.
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