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    From the page: "Decision to end a life in city of woe ARRIVING in New Orleans last Sunday, I have spent a week reporting the unfolding misery and ruined lives in the aftermath of the hurricane. But nothing, in the plethora of grim tales of disaster, compares with a terrible incident... more

    Reviewed by MPeachShrub Sep 09 2005, 03:41pm ( 4 reviews ) • scotsman.com

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  • Reviewed by Tangentspund on Sep 09 2005, 10:05pm

    Another hindsight is 20/20 asinine review from a back seat driver. Leave the man F*&^ing alone. I'm about sick and tired of punk ass foreign jackasses saying how bad a job my president did. Check the states constitutional law and you will find that it is FIRST the CITY, second the STATE and FINALLY the the FEDERAL governments jobs to evacuate and to cover relief and aid. If it's ANYONES FAULT that so many died it's the dumb ass that built a city 10'+ below sea level in between 3 bodies of water, then the idiots fault that didn't evacuate when the warning came to leave because a CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE was climbing up their butts. Louisianna is #1 is expenxditures for the Army Corp of Engineers. WHERE DID THAT MONEY GO?!?!?!? Perhaps the corrupt local state governement???? NO, NO, NO,... we must blame the president. Give me a freaking break. Every loser likes to point the finger at the man on top.

  • Rated by MPeachShrub on Sep 09 2005, 3:41pm

    From the page: "Decision to end a life in city of woe ARRIVING in New Orleans last Sunday, I have spent a week reporting the unfolding misery and ruined lives in the aftermath of the hurricane. But nothing, in the plethora of grim tales of disaster, compares with a terrible incident recounted to me as the week drew to a close. There was a 380-pound man stranded on the seventh floor of a New Orleans hospital. Unable to get him down five flights of stairs to the second-floor exit, through which other patients were being evacuated onto rescue boats to escape the rising floodwater, a female manager took a shocking decision. She ordered that he be given euthanasia. A bearded, middle-aged doctor, who is still wearing his green hospital garb, tells me the sad story as he and his colleagues sit at the muddy, squalid refugee-receiving post on New Orleans' I10 Highway. He does not want to give me his name and will not identify the patient out of respect. But he wants people to know what happened in there. His lower jaw quivers as he recalls the events of Wednesday night. "We had minutes to get out, and I asked, 'What are we going to do about this guy, because he's a big man. It was going to be tough getting him down those stairs - the elevators weren't working. That woman turned to me and said straight out, 'We're going to help him to heaven'. It makes me want to break down, how that man's life was taken away." It is one of so many gruesome and desperate stories that have poured forth from the tens of thousands of refugees." ------------------ I had not heard about this before Voyyaghar sent me the link. Words just fail.

  • Rated by voyyaghar on Sep 08 2005, 10:42pm

    I like reading the international take on bush. It's better news that what we get in the US.A PANICKED George Bush yesterday ordered elite troops on to the streets of New Orleans in an unprecedented attempt to stop violence in the disaster-struck city spiralling out of control.The deployment, nearly a week after Hurricane Katrina struck, will see 7,000 marines and airborne troops sent to the emergency zone, where they are expected to crack down on the gun-toting gangs terrorising survivors.Despite a blitz of TV appearances, Bush faces mounting criticism for failing to act fast enough to avert the crisis affecting millions on the Gulf Coast.Thousands of National Guardsmen have failed to regain control of New Orleans. Fires continue to belch smoke over the city and sporadic gunfire echoes through the flooded streets.Military experts said last night that regular soldiers - let alone elite assault troops - had never before been used to quell disorder in the United States.