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To: ThirdEye who wrote (137303)	9/5/2005 1:39:24 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793640

I read that a long time ago and it was followed to the letter. You really do need to research first. And I don't find any fault with the Mayor because he made choices or did not think of solutions. I do find the Mayor has revealed himself to be a person of no honor or character because of his motor mouth whinning. His never ending "OH PITY US" moaning and despair likely spurred his first repsonders to feel sorry for themselves and go home. NO not really as they were all too busy to be listening. We can be thankful they were not listening. This article details what could be a true and reasonable explanation of how events turned. Monday, Sept. 5, 2005 8:27 a.m. EDT Nat'l Guard: Violence Delayed Flood Rescue A senior National Guard official said Saturday that violence perpetrated by New Orleans' criminal element - and not bureaucratic bungling - was responsible for delays in getting help to the city's flood victims. "Some people asked why didn't we go in sooner," Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief, National Guard Bureau, said at a Pentagon briefing hours after returning from New Orleans. "We waited until we had enough force in place to [go in with] an overwhelming force." "Had we gone in with less force it may have been challenged," Blum said. "Innocents may have been caught in a fight between the Guard military police and those who did not want to be processed or apprehended, and we would put innocents' lives at risk." Lt. Gen. Blum said the overwhelming invasion force helped keep the operation to retake the city peaceful, especially at flashpoints like the city's convention center, where thousands of refugees gathered. "Major General Landreneau, yesterday shortly after noon stormed the convention center, for lack of a better term, and there was absolutely no opposition, complete cooperation, and we attribute that to an excellent plan, superbly executed with great military precision," he explained. "There was no violent resistance, no one injured, no one shot, even though there were [people who were] stabbed, even though there were weapons in the area. There were no soldiers injured and we did not have to fire a shot." The top military man said that the collapse of the New Orleans police force also complicated rescue efforts. "No one anticipated the disintegration or the erosion of the civilian police force in New Orleans," he told reporters. "On a normal day they should have 1,500 paid officers in New Orleans," Gen. Blum said. "And I think the mayor told me they're down to less than 500." "Once that assessment was made, that the normal 1500 man police force in New Orleans was substantially degraded," he said, "then the requirement became obvious and that's when we started flowing military police into the theater." Even before the Katrina disaster crippled law enforcement, New Orleans had a crime rate ten times the national average. newsmax.com