Great points Anz.

The time table is far different than JITB is making it out to be. AFTER the levee broke, the PRESIDENT called himself to ask the Gov if he should send FEDERAL help and she told him, "let me check into how much damage there is and I'll get back to you". How's that begging for help? How's that helping people that were later stranded and many drowned because SHE and the Mayor were sitting with their fingers up each other's butt?

Everybody wants to blame Bush for everything, especially when they were Bush haters BEFORE all this happened anyway. How convinient.

As a matter of fact, I read report earlier this week where a DEMOCRAT Senator from Louisiana used the National Guard, a National Guard that was already in scarce supply, troops to take him to his personal HOUSE to retrieve personal things out. They spent HOURS waiting on him while he made suitcases, he got his laptop, and other personal articles OUT of his house. All this was going on while people were dieing inside the Superdome. The report even said that reporters have confirmed that there were tracks still clearly visible in the Senator's front yard as the waters went down the other day. One of the vehicles they used to take him there, got stuck and the Senator called for a HELICOPTER to come and get him out, only to later refuse to go up the rope into it not once but twice. The helicopter already had evacuees inside and got tired of him refusing to go up. They left and could only rescue one more person because it wasted so much time and now needed to refuel.

Guess what the kicker to that story is? That very same Senator was not only one of those condeming Bush for "taking too long to help", but he is also being actively being investigated on Capitol Hill for some shady dealings. Now Congress wants to investigate if that laptop and other documents he took out were taken as an effort to destroy damning evidence against him. His congressional office and other offices in Louisiana had been raided by the FBI just before Katrina hit.

How many lives did this guy cost? We'll never know. I do know that it is shitty to abandon your post for your own gain and then complain that somebody else is not coming to "help you".