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The End of the World

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Jodi
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I think the table is set.
Im not religious...at all.....but this is insane.
humanity is SO crooked.
I work in a national newsroom. I have seen footage that has not made it to air....
The devasation of Katrina is so much worse that you have seen.
Women being raped by authorities, neighbors...babies dead on the sidewalk - bodies strewen everywhere with people stealing the jewelry off of them.
People shooting those who are trying to help.
The heart of man is wicked. I have never seen anything like it.
This was not the character of man during 9-11. This was not the character of man during the Southeast Asia Tsunamis.
I am sickened by this world, and totally devastated.
As a news reporter, I don't even want to go to work - because I have to look at it.
Its frightening, not heartbreaking. Just terrifying.

Sep 1 2005 4:14PM
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Shadows
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not to spoil your fun, but war (which i am against completley but also dont see any other options that we could use) has killed alot more people than weather, then of course you have hitler, genocide, WMA, hiroshima...

Sep 1 2005 4:17PM
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bermbuster49
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yeah, i will try not to be racist with the statement, most people that were in the wt were white, and if they were black they werent dirty south gang bangers, its just life is different there than it is up here and in other continents. but that still is inhumain for anyone too do.


-kulpy-

gangsta raps lyrics are all the same, Someone gets shot, someones frontin, someones a wangsta, someones benchpressin, someones makin fried chicken, and the beans dont burn on the grill. You can see that shit in kentucky. Fuck the bronx, deep south bitches-scientist
Sep 1 2005 4:18PM
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Schwags
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have you never taken a history class? Humans have sucked for there entire existence.

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Sep 1 2005 4:20PM
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Jodi
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im not talking about war - or even death toll numbers. im not talking foreign policy and measures in far-off places. im talking about the heart of man - here in north america.
everyone talks about how great man is when we band together, and in the tough times, we shine. Im wondering what went wrong this time?

Sep 1 2005 4:22PM
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powder_2_the_people
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for sure he would, hed just convince himself that the rapist is dangerous and he couldnt have done anything anyhow



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Sep 1 2005 4:23PM
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Shadows
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what!, america is dontaing millions of dollars to the gulf coast, thousands of charities are getin invaloved. BUSH is givin 25 grand to EACH person down there...how can you say we dont care?
i myself gave my friends/family over 3000 to help out. i used to live down there. i was born there

Sep 1 2005 4:24PM
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Schwags
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what went wrong this time? All the poor people in NO did not have the financial means to evacuate... so now they are stealing and looting... it makes perfect sense to me... You got a bunch of pissed off poor people.

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Sep 1 2005 4:26PM
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Jodi
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Courtesy New York Times...
"Elsewhere in New Orleans, gunshots repeatedly rang out and fires flared as looters broke into stores, houses, hospitals and office buildings -- some in search of food, others looking for anything of value.
Two hospitals were under siege by robbers who used axes, guns and metal pipes to steal pain killers and medicine, according to a pilot flying relief operations into New Orleans."


Monitary donations and red-cross aid doesnt change this.

Sep 1 2005 4:27PM
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Shadows
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well, NO is not all that poor, they are living off of casinos and tourism. they have plenty of money.

Sep 1 2005 4:27PM
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Schwags
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lol... the news in LA wouldnt be much different today.

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Sep 1 2005 4:28PM
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Schwags
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The people that stayed are the poor ones.... anyone with a little bit of dough would surely have the sense to leave.

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Sep 1 2005 4:29PM
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Ice-Is-Scary
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Well having personally visited new orleans this summer to party with my dad, the place was a real shithole to begin with. I wouldn't call it "well to do" by any means, sucks bad for the people down there. But these are the risks you take living in the gulf coast/florida. Just like people who build their homes on the side of hills known to slide in california, or next to forests that catch fire often. It sucks when shit happens and I believe we should help them but the fact is, god hates NO

We pay our debt sometimes.
Sep 1 2005 4:30PM
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Shadows
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so because they cant afford a car (or dont need one with public transport) or dont have money for the things they are stealing, or because they actually COULDNT make it out in time, that makes them poor?

Sep 1 2005 4:32PM
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Jodi
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^^i think you may be on to something.....

Sep 1 2005 4:32PM
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Alpine3
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"As a news reporter, I don't even want to go to work - because I have to look at it."

well that casue all a news reporter does is tell the bad shit... shoulden't you be used to it now? oo right a lot of the bad shit that is said on the news in false... my bad


Sep 1 2005 4:33PM
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Shadows
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exactly! thank you. the news only focuses on the bad thing. they dont, and wont show you the good things, there are much more good points than bad points, but no one would watch it.

Sep 1 2005 4:34PM
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Schwags
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"so because they cant afford a car (or dont need one with public transport) or dont have money for the things they are stealing, or because they actually COULDNT make it out in time, that makes them poor?"


Yep.... first of all... stealing right now in NO, is not really stealing.. The stores are even open, so they are just getting the things they need for survival.

And 80% of the people that staayed in NO during katrina did not have the funds required to leave... sure their are others who are retarted and wanted to stay just so they could witness there house blow away first hand, but the majority couldnt do shit about it.

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Sep 1 2005 4:37PM
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SteveStepp
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its true, humans suck






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Sep 1 2005 4:38PM
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garrett.
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that about sums everything up


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Sep 1 2005 4:43PM
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lanks
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jodi, here is what i think is going on in new orleans. i'm not in the position you're in, so my opinions and theories are nothing much in the grand scheme of things, but i will write them down regardless.

everyone who had common sense, a will to live, or just the resources to be able to flee, did. those left behind in the city of new orleans consisted of individuals who are lacking basic wisdom and intelligence, and a small portion of the very underprivelidged, who couldn't fend for themselves.

those are two groups i just mentioned make up a small percentage of everyday life, but in this instance, since every other cohort and demographic has fled, they are the only ones the news can report on in new orleans. this is why whenever i turn on my tv, or log on to sympatico.ca, i see nothing but a giant mess, and almost no indication of any positive events. i guess what i'm saying is that all of humanity isn't necessarily as bad as this relatively small group of individuals is.






...but now i feel compelled to write another paragraph... the more i think about what you said, the more truthful it becomes. these people seem to be the absolute lowest common denominators amongst the human race, but what does that say about the rest of us? it means that anyone is capable of the horrific actions of the looters, theives, or murderers in new orleans, because yea, humans are wicked and sinful in their very essence. and imagine if this event was only the beginning...


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Sep 1 2005 4:43PM
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Shadows
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everyone has different levels of income and different ways of living. the way alot of people are, i was too, we got a paycheck and we bought what we needed to stay happy and live our lives. just like everyone else who is "rich" just because they cant get out doesnt make them poor. you dont realize that. i hate when people basically say how stupid and poor me, my family, my friends, relatives, co-workers, who ever are. when they have never been there, never experienced live down there or that way, and have no idea how to even pronounce half of the cities in the gulf coast.

Sep 1 2005 4:44PM
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Jodi
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Joel. I totally agree.
'nuff said.


Sep 1 2005 4:51PM
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Schwags
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do you want us to come up with nicer ways of saying poor?

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Sep 1 2005 4:53PM
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powder_2_the_people
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haha


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Sep 1 2005 4:56PM
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Shadows
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it doesnt really have anything to do with being poor. its somewhat about how america has such a high standard of living.

Sep 1 2005 4:58PM
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JackBach
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What news agency do you work for, Jodi? I'm a print journalist...

You guys should listen to the song "Beast of Man" by Arch Enemy.

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Sep 1 2005 5:08PM
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scofield
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Oh Canada! Oh Canada!



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Sep 1 2005 5:09PM
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rynmartn
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yea look to the past....ppl have been way worse. read a history book

yay skiing
Sep 1 2005 6:59PM
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spin
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At the same time, the richest country in the world shouldnt have any impoverished people. for half the money spent on the war in iraq ($87,000,000,000) the united states could have provided food, medicare, and a basic education to everychild in the fucking world (UN statistic). the fact that NO has so much poverty in and around it is a fucking joke to begin with. the fact that nothings been done to prevent this kind of thing in NO is rediculous, and the fact that our government has let this go so far absolutely insane. G Dubs needs to grow some balls, leave his war alone and do some work around his own gad damned house.


yuck, you'll be known as the pussy from this day on if you do that. Do something manly, like cut her initials into your chest or something.
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Sep 1 2005 7:09PM
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Jodi
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^^^^TOTALLY.

Sep 1 2005 7:28PM
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jsg
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SOOO TRUE FUCK U NEWS U CAN SUCK A DICK

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Sep 1 2005 7:29PM
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Shadows
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haha yea!

Sep 1 2005 7:35PM
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eheath
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what would u do if your whole city of millions was under 4-20ft of water and there are people goin crazy, starving and dying of thirst? people change with that kinda shit, ever read lord of the flies?

what's up now bitch



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Sep 1 2005 7:37PM
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Shadows
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no shit, im readin that book right now, just started though so im at ch. 2

Sep 1 2005 7:38PM
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watchmefall15
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fuck this shit lets go skiing






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Sep 1 2005 7:39PM
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Quinny
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The looting can be attributed to two things that were already in New Orleans...poverty and a high crime rate. Out of all the large cities in America, New Orleans is the 8th poorest. People in New Orleans have among the lowest average annual incomes in the nation. Poverty is a recipe for a high crime rate.

Its naive to think this kind of thing has never happened before. I’ll bet the only difference is that the crimes are more noticeable. All the hurricane did was “turn over the rock.� The international press has full view of New Orleans underbelly. You want to know why there wasn’t mass looting in New York on 911? Probably because Manhattan is a very wealthy city. I don’t think people in million dollar lofts have a great desire to loot the window-shops downstairs.

Am I surprised this happened? A little. Am I shocked? No.

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Sep 1 2005 7:46PM
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cmo
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i really agree with this kid. people are really dumb, people who think they know shit about this event are totally kidding themselves, unless they are there currently and experiencing it, than they should shut the fuck up and feel sorry for all of those people down south. not just in NO, all the places that have been devastated by Katrina. And jodi is right, humanity has become stupid and really downright not human more like savages.

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Sep 1 2005 7:47PM
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Shadows
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humanity hasnt really changed, we've just had technilogical advances and a new generation of views and opinions. the only thing really different is that information about events like this are easier to reoport/send around the world with TV, radio, internet and all. if we didnt have all that, we wouldnt know much about it. even though the news is kind of biased in some cases

Sep 1 2005 7:51PM
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CorkWormTurn
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get off your high goddamned horse. bush may suck, but what the fuck is canada doing for the world? or france, or germany, or japan. You can pull statistics like that forever. Fuck, for the money you spend skiing in a year you could probably feed some poor kid for a year, or provide vaccines for 100 people, or who knows.

it's the same with a government, only it operates on a different scale.

Sep 1 2005 7:55PM
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Shadows
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yea canadas health program is really awsome compared to ours, its so much better.

Sep 1 2005 7:56PM
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Shadows
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although you could also argue "what are we (the US) doin for the world?"

Sep 1 2005 7:57PM
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Deafboy
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yeah the worlds a fucked up place, us god damn humans ruining it in everyfucking way, oh fucking well. right now im fine and i couldnt give a shit what goes down in the states, all us humans were a mistake!


but yeah jodi and lanks make very good points.





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Sep 1 2005 7:57PM
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Quinny
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Ooooooooooooooooooooooooh sure! Its all Bush’s fault.

Do everyone a favor and go take a long walk off a sort pier.

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Sep 1 2005 8:00PM
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Bigmilne22
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think about it the world will end because people are gonna kill everyone and we rape the natural resources i saw an article in national geographic that said we could run out of oil in sixty years that would be in our life time


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Sep 1 2005 8:00PM
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Shadows
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but then you have to wonder what kind of alternative are we gonna have by then

Sep 1 2005 8:02PM
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MitchPee
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"im not talking about war - or even death toll numbers. im not talking foreign policy and measures in far-off places. im talking about the heart of man - here in north america."
Jodi

thinking back to 1838...The trail of tears
15,000 Cherokee Native Americans are forced out of their land in native Georgia and made to walk over 1,000 miles to Oaklahoma over 4,000 died from fatigue, disease, dehydration, and other similar problems

Slavery- Dating back to well before we (white people) were on the north american continent all the way to the late 1800's white people STOLE african americans from their homes in Africa and sold them to owners who did not pay them, cloth them, house them, or feed them very well. they were forced to do this in America for hundreds of years

Japanese concentration camps- during WW2 the American society was paranoid of Japanese spies and air-raids...so what do we do? (we again being white people) we completely rip them from their families, lives, and jobs and put them into camps in Utah and Nevada all for the 3 years of ww2 and then when it was over we say sorry and let them go

civil rights act- black people trying to gain rights to be EQUAL to (yet again white people, there's a pattern here isn't there?) go to the same schools ride the same buses drink from the same god damn waterfountain or be able to eat in the same room


this is far worse then anything any of you have seen in your lives this hurricane may seem bad but we will get over it and move on the crime will stop as will the flooding and the sun will yet again shine on NO's so jodi i understand you're talking out of desperation after watching those videos but just consider american history...theres many other bad things that have happened i could point out but im not going to you got the point

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Sep 1 2005 8:02PM
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anothermammothpunk
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Clever

Sep 1 2005 8:02PM
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MitchPee
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and spin actually we've spent about 191,000,000,000 on the war in iraq

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Sep 1 2005 8:04PM
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Shadows
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if we didnt go to war with iraq, do you think we would still have a country? how would our life be if we didnt go to iraq. oil or no oil...

Sep 1 2005 8:07PM
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skiierman
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What went wrong was many things down there...
1) Barriers not adequite enough to handle this kind of storm.
2) Many people didn't act when they where specifically told about the severity of the storm well in advance so they could evacuate. (Don't give me this stranded bullshit, they could have left but decided not to.)
3) The barries reflected the state governmnet itself; they didn't have a plan in set to handle something on this scale.
4) The storm was on a very large scale and affected a wide area but numbers to handle this, once again, where very low.
5) The people in New Orleans are doing what they need to survive and when you add in gangs with guns, looters, theives, it's basically a recipie for disaster.
6) No route to handle all the dead bodies to bring them out.
7) No route to bring in supplies such as water and food (which the state government just ran out of to supply).
8) No law enforcement WHAT-SO-EVER! This is due to the large area of desctruction. Why protect the ones that are already safe (the ones in the astro-dome) when there are hundreds out there on roofs needed to be saved? But leaving the people there without any kind of enforcement is like leaving a 5 yearold without a babysitter in a crystal filled candy shop... A disaster.

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