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Originally posted by Penske_Account
I agree. Nagin was responsible for the pre- and immediate post-event safety of the populace and completely dropped the ball. If he had evacuated 50,000 or so people on the buses on Saturday and Sunday prior to Katrina the loss of lives would have been significantly less and the criticism of the Feds would probably be limited to inadequate maintenance of the levee over the last several decades (if not longer).
Am I wrong?
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Yes. There were something like 100,000 people in the city. If half the number of people had been stuck without food and water outside the Superdome, with Chertoff and Brown going on TV to say that everything was ducky and under control, the country still would have been appalled.
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