Deliberately delaying rescue

[redbird]

For those who were questioning whether the delays in getting people out of New Orleans were deliberate: DoD is not only admitting it, they're calling it a job well done.

The excuse is that there were dangerous people in the Superdome. So they responded by making everyone else stay there longer, with no food, no water, and "gang members" threatening them. Also, they claim that they needed to search people for guns and weapons on the way out--remember that everyone who came in was searched, and had to stand in line for hours because of this.

Comments

[liv]

Oh good Lord! I saw that somewhere else, not very clearly labelled, and I skimmed it on the assumption it was cheap satire. I'm really horrified to realize where it actually comes from.

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Sounds like he's talking specifically about the delay in retaking the Convention Center, not in operations generally. That they deliberately waited till they had enough people to do it, rather than go in with an insufficient force and end up with people killed; I'm sure that if the'd done so, the same people who are upset now would be even more upset and critical.

And the people were searched for weapons on their way back in to the CC, not on their way out.

[adrian-turtle.livejournal.com]

The sentence that staggered me was, "Those that were undesirable to re-enter the convention center were segregated from the people that we wanted to provide water, shelter and food." They don't even have the grace to be ashamed of THAT. I couldn't bear to read the whole report.

[stealthpup.livejournal.com]

A couple of friends' LJs have mention of an account where folks were being prevented from evactuating New Orleans by police (http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/article_18337.shtml).