http://www.washtimes.com/national/pruden.htm

This pretty much has all that i wanted to say. Why did the mayor wait so late for the mandatory evacuation and didn't move the buses to higher ground? Oh, he's black BTW. Why didn't Jesse Jackson and other poverty pimps go and help evacuate the people? There is no racial element here. Yes, I would say a economical issue, but still the MAYOR did not prepar HIS city. You should see the intervues with this clown. All he does is deflect any criticism. He' no Gulliani.
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/4034.php
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.nagin/

Go down about halfway to read the intervue with Nagin...
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIP...05/ltm.01.html
I really like this part...
"He called me in that office after that. And he said, “Mr. Mayor, I offered two options to the governor.” I said — and I don’t remember exactly what. There were two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision.

S. O’BRIEN: You’re telling me the president told you the governor said she needed 24 hours to make a decision?

NAGIN: Yes.

S. O’BRIEN: Regarding what? Bringing troops in?

NAGIN: Whatever they had discussed. As far as what the — I was abdicating a clear chain of command, so that we could get resources flowing in the right places.

S. O’BRIEN: And the governor said no.

NAGIN: She said that she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have been great if we could of left Air Force One, walked outside, and told the world that we had this all worked out. It didn’t happen, and more people died."

Here's an article on the "Welfare State" and its effects to the midnset of the victoms..
http://www.rightnation.us/forums/ind...howtopic=86931

And the last article, just for old times sake...
http://americandaily.com/article/9101