This is how you do it.

[Red Harvest]

I like the initial reports of this Lt. General who is taking charge of the operations in New Orleans. Relief Leadership Arrives

from CNN

"He came off the doggone chopper, and he started cussing and people started moving," Nagin said in an interview Thursday night with a local radio station.

The three-star general directed the deployment of an estimated 1,000 National Guard troops from a New Orleans street corner Friday, making it clear that it was a humanitarian relief operation. Getting food and water to the people at the city's convention center was a difficult process, Honore said

and

He ordered all he encountered to point their weapons down, said CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr, who was with the general. Honore repeatedly went up to military vehicles, National Guardsmen standing sentry and even to New Orleans police officers, telling them to please point their weapons down and reminding them that they were not in Iraq.

This is what I expected to see by Wednesday. Glad to see somebody getting the job done. I've been surprised by the relative paucity of forces in the city until the past 24 hours. No wonder there was no security. No one to direct, few forces on hand.

[Strike For The South]

[Kagemusha]

Now you guys have a crisis time organisator in the ground there.I sincerely hope he can manage things there.

[Azi Tohak]

Sick 'em scooter!

Good for the Lt. General! Nice to see some action.

Azi

[Red Harvest]

He seems to be doing excellent work, people are getting moved, people are getting fed, people are getting water.

Despite folks complaining about those who failed to evacuate (blaming them for their plight) from what I've seen until about Thursday the response effort couldn't have moved out even 10,000 folks after the storm. Completely inadequate considering there was still some land access to the city.

[Kagemusha]

Red thats nice to hear. I hoped that a military leader would put some sense in that chaos because he is used to working in that kind of enviroment,where he doesnt exactly know whats happening everywhere.