Comments on: Hurricane Gustav: Mayor Ray Nagin Orders Mandatory Evacuation of New Orleans http://www.blogsofwar.com/2008/08/30/hurricane-gustav-mayor-ray-nagin-orders-mandatory-evacuation-of-new-orleans/ Tracking the changing landscape of national security since 2002 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:02:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Craig Brougher http://www.blogsofwar.com/2008/08/30/hurricane-gustav-mayor-ray-nagin-orders-mandatory-evacuation-of-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-216312 Craig Brougher Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:11:15 +0000 http://www.blogsofwar.com/2008/08/30/hurricane-gustav-mayor-ray-nagin-orders-mandatory-evacuation-of-new-orleans/#comment-216312 Nagin blamed the Corps for inadequate levees the first time. I got news--both for the Washington Post, NYT, and all the flunkies who write stuff without researching it, first. The ACE is not responsible for an inadequate levee or system. They build levees to the mutual specs of their sponsor (New Orleans Levee Board and State of Louisiana) and then it's that sponsor's duty to inspect, maintain, and upgrade the system as they see fit! They receive government money to help do that. Yet they just misappropriate those hundreds of millions and ignore their levees. It wasn't Latrina that did in New Orleans. It was their own treachery, lying, thieving, and bedeviling of the citizens of Louisiana for 4 decades that caused a high water table, plus drifting barges, to cut holes in their levees. Anybody who has the gall to blame the ACE for their own fraud and crookedness and then carry that story worldwide in all their nonsense newspapers deserves a real hurricane directly, in my opinion. Let 'em feel what a hurricane (albeit much smaller than Katrina) is like for a change. They want that credit, you know. And the day those half-completed levees west of the Miss. holds what they're going to get is the day I'll eat my hat. Remember, these are spec'd both by state engineers and the Corps. It's a joint engineering project. Stop jazzin' us, and stop your naggin' Nagin! It's all your fault! None of it belongs to ACE. And if you don't believe that, then read the Corp's pdf on levees and who owns and maintains them, fella! Nagin blamed the Corps for inadequate levees the first time. I got news–both for the Washington Post, NYT, and all the flunkies who write stuff without researching it, first.

The ACE is not responsible for an inadequate levee or system. They build levees to the mutual specs of their sponsor (New Orleans Levee Board and State of Louisiana) and then it’s that sponsor’s duty to inspect, maintain, and upgrade the system as they see fit!

They receive government money to help do that. Yet they just misappropriate those hundreds of millions and ignore their levees. It wasn’t Latrina that did in New Orleans. It was their own treachery, lying, thieving, and bedeviling of the citizens of Louisiana for 4 decades that caused a high water table, plus drifting barges, to cut holes in their levees.

Anybody who has the gall to blame the ACE for their own fraud and crookedness and then carry that story worldwide in all their nonsense newspapers deserves a real hurricane directly, in my opinion.

Let ‘em feel what a hurricane (albeit much smaller than Katrina) is like for a change. They want that credit, you know. And the day those half-completed levees west of the Miss. holds what they’re going to get is the day I’ll eat my hat. Remember, these are spec’d both by state engineers and the Corps. It’s a joint engineering project.

Stop jazzin’ us, and stop your naggin’ Nagin! It’s all your fault! None of it belongs to ACE. And if you don’t believe that, then read the Corp’s pdf on levees and who owns and maintains them, fella!

]]> By: Robert Wesley http://www.blogsofwar.com/2008/08/30/hurricane-gustav-mayor-ray-nagin-orders-mandatory-evacuation-of-new-orleans/comment-page-1/#comment-216045 Robert Wesley Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:53:13 +0000 http://www.blogsofwar.com/2008/08/30/hurricane-gustav-mayor-ray-nagin-orders-mandatory-evacuation-of-new-orleans/#comment-216045 It pains me to see the tragedy unfolding and the deaths that have occurred due to this hurricane. I pray no more lives be lost. Property we can replace. I wish, the national guards would put their weapons away. These people are not criminals, they are fleeing for their lives. Is the Super Dome so super that we can not have temporary shelter for those fleeing for their lives? And why are all these armed guards defending the superdome? This place could be used as a place of shelter. My God, whats wrong with you people in charge. Have a heart. The I don't care spirit of Pres. George Bush lives on through another storm. Or in the words of Kanye West, " George Bush don't care nothing about Black people." I would go one step further and say George Bush doesn't care about anybody. It pains me to see the tragedy unfolding and the deaths that have occurred due to this hurricane. I pray no more lives be lost. Property we can replace.

I wish, the national guards would put their weapons away. These people are not criminals, they are fleeing for their lives.

Is the Super Dome so super that we can not have temporary shelter for those fleeing for their lives? And why are all these armed guards defending the superdome? This place could be used as a place of shelter. My God, whats wrong with you people in charge. Have a heart. The I don’t care spirit of Pres. George Bush lives on through another storm. Or in the words of Kanye West, ” George Bush don’t care nothing about Black people.” I would go one step further and say George Bush doesn’t care about anybody.

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