I don't care what Nagin's politics are. He failed. He didn't follow his own city's emergency response plan, which included the use of school buses. His incompetence killed people.I'm sure you like to pretend that. Meanwhile, you're making excuses for Nagin.
Dood, there is no excuse for Nagin. I don't need to make that point; everybody in N'awlins has known that for years. What I did here was demonstrate how your one-photo-pony don't trot. You seem to have a penchant for superficial research, so I'm here to help until you can do it on your own. To hell with Nagin's legacy; I care about the idea of not playing loosely with the facts.
Nor do I need to "pretend" to see armchair political pundits trying to use a natural disaster they didn't even see as a political football. That's obvious. The uninformed are jumping on Nagin because they're still under the impression he was a "Democrat". Other wags keep bringing up George Bush in defensive postures even when no one else mentioned him. The entire population of New Orleans has been painted here as "libtards" and "Democraps". It's all a game to the opportunists. Even now I see a certain Bassethound up there trying to shift the blame away from the Army Corps of Engineers (they have an "R" in their name so they must be Republicans?)...*
Natural disasters are not political footballs. Why is this thread hung up on Katrina rather than on the substance of the OP - the indictment?
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*To that Army Corps thing...
The Corps betrayed New Orleans in a number of ways. Its flood walls played matador defense because they were badly designed and badly engineered, then built in soggy soils in the wrong locations; the commander of the Corps, General Carl Strock, admitted his agency's "catastrophic failure" and submitted his resignation nine months after the storm, long after the nation had stopped paying attention. The Corps also exposed New Orleans to storm surges by manhandling and straitjacketing the Mississippi River over the past 80 years, blocking the flow of silt to southern Louisiana, gradually sinking the Big Easy below sea level and destroying a third of the coastal wetlands and barrier islands that once provided the city's natural hurricane protection. -- Time
You say you're not, but you're whitewashing his legacy.
Good luck with that.
Read your own link; it doesn't even mention school buses.
Look, I outlined all this backthread; I have greener pastures than to rehash it all over again. I don't think you're qualified to reconstruct an event you weren't there for based on what you can find on the internets. K?