The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum

=> A WACKED BUSH WORRIES ABOUT LOOTING!!!

A WACKED BUSH WORRIES ABOUT LOOTING!!!

Posted by Maggie (Guest) - Thursday, September 1 2005, 21:26:25 (CEST) from 69.110.69.75 - adsl-69-110-69-75.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net Network - Windows XP - Internet Explorer Website: Website title:

Yesterday, President Bush said there will be ZERO tolerance for the looting that's going on by the Hurricane victims. Why didn't the president have a zero-tolerance policy for the looting that went on in Baghdad Museum? Was that because he arranged for all his FRIENDS to loot the musuem with his blessings? When Bush was asked if the Katrina looting victims would be prosecuted even though they were mostly taking food, water, and shoes for walking, he said, "ZERO-TOLERANCE means just that! They could access water and food by other means that's been arranged for them". HOW? FEMA has not handed out a single bottle of water to the New Orleans victims THREE DAYS after the disaster struck. FEMA has not handed out food to the victims THREE DAYS after the disaster struck! They are still standing in water, and no one has come to their rescue yet? HOW LONG SHOULD THEY WAIT TO BE RESCUED, FED, AND SHELTERED? Well, Bush said "I WILL TAKE A TOUR OF NEW ORLEANS TOMORROW", that means another day will go by before FEMA will even consider going into New Orleans to help the victims! READ this MR. PRESIDENT and FREAKIN' WAKE UP!! New Orleans Death Toll May Soar; Survivors Desperate; Looters Brazen Mayor says thousands of bodies could be found in the city, where 90% of homes are submerged. Troops and ships are ordered into the region. By Scott Gold, Lianne Hart and Stephen Braun, Times Staff Writers NEW ORLEANS — The city's police and emergency officials worked desperately Wednesday to prevent complete social disintegration as widespread looting continued for a second day and cresting floodwaters hid untold numbers of dead. Though the flooding appeared to stabilize, 90% of New Orleans' homes were underwater, officials said. Repair crews readied 20,000-pound sandbags to plug gaping breaches in the city's levees, but officials bickered over the slow progress. Bus caravans started to move 23,000 exhausted Superdome refugees to shelter in Texas. A few hundred people left Wednesday, and the full-scale evacuation was to begin at midnight. On a stretch of interstate near the stadium, a mob of flood victims began an anarchic march of their own, abandoning the ruined city. Federal officials dispatched National Guard convoys and U.S. warships to the Gulf Coast to aid in rescues and deliver supplies. The immense scale of the disaster spawned after Hurricane Katrina struck Monday, and the pressing burden of new emergencies, continued to threaten thousands of the dispossessed in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, where survivors scavenged for food and shelter and were at risk for dehydration as they waited on rooftops to be rescued. New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin predicted that "at minimum, hundreds" and "most likely thousands" of city residents lay in underwater graves. "We know there is a significant number of dead bodies in the water," he said. Despite the urgency of the situation for victims in need of rescue, Nagin ordered the city's police force Wednesday night to discontinue such missions and return to the streets to counter waves of looting that had turned violent. "They are starting to get closer to heavily populated areas — hotels, hospitals — and we're going to stop it right now," Nagin said. The mayor said 1,500 police officers, nearly the entire department, were being redeployed on the city's remaining stretches of dry land. At flood-swamped Charity Hospital, looters with handguns forced doctors to give up stores of narcotics. Wal-Mart gun racks and ammunition supplies were stripped. Thieves commandeered a forklift to smash the security glass window of one pharmacy, fleeing with so much ice, water and food that they left a trail behind them. Brazen gangs chased down a state police truck filled with food, and even city officials were accused of commandeering equipment from a looted Office Depot. "It started with people running out of food, and you can't really argue with that too much," Nagin said. "Then it escalated to this kind of mass chaos where people are taking electronic stuff and all that." The fraying conditions of life in the flood zones could be measured in the sighs and short tempers of frustrated public officials. Nagin found a measure of hope in the decision by Texas officials to house thousands of flood refugees in the Houston Astrodome. But he turned grim as he echoed mounting reports from police and National Guard troops who said bodies were floating in the waters. Nagin said medical examiners were setting up a temporary morgue and would soon begin a methodical search for those who drowned, trapped in bedrooms and attics or carried by the currents. A New Orleans television station reported that one woman waded through the floodwaters, floating her husband's body downstream to Charity Hospital on a door. Nagin said officials would be able to fully deal with the crisis only when there was "total evacuation of the city. We have to. The city will not be functional for two or three months," he said. The mayor added that residents would probably not be allowed back into their homes for at least a month or two. During another long day, rescuers concentrated on the living. Helicopters darted over Chalmette Medical Center in inundated St. Bernard Parish, southeast of the French Quarter, trying to evacuate more than 300 patients, medical staff and refugees who clambered to the roof for safety. Other hospitals throughout the city were on the verge of shutting down as supplies of generator fuel dwindled. "The situation is grave," said Donald Smithburg, chief executive of the Louisiana State University hospital system. Two LSU hospitals in New Orleans "are desperately short of raw materials," Smithburg said. "We have no power, no water, no toilets, and we don't have fuel to operate our generators…. We're simply out of juice. Now it boils down to transporting the rawest materials, fuel, so we can buy another few hours or another day." More ruptures were found in the city's overwhelmed levees, but the swelling floodwaters had finally leveled with the storm surges flowing from Lake Pontchartrain. The Army Corps of Engineers planned to drop 20,000-pound sandbags by helicopter over the porous dikes and to float in barges carrying massive concrete highway barriers that will be wedged against the gaps. --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

The full topic: No replies.

Content-length: 7059 Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/vnd.ms-excel, applicatio... Accept-encoding: gzip, deflate Accept-language: en-us Cache-control: no-cache Connection: Keep-Alive Cookie: *hidded* Host: www.insideassyria.com Referer: http://www.insideassyria.com/rkvsf4/rkvsf_core.php?.49DI. User-agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; sbcydsl 3.12; YPC 3.0.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; yplus 4.1.00b)

Powered by RedKernel V.S. Forum 1.2.b9