Originally posted by BP:
Originally posted by JaTo:

...just like I did Michael Brown. Despite his name, he's most assuredly "white as bread" so feel free to shove the racial connection up your posterior where it belongs.



i didn't bring race into this discussion so don't get mad and all posterior like on me. my whole point is that it's easy to monday morning qb this issue and isolate blame as you're doing now. answer me this: if everyone had done their job perfectly with the exception of nagin would NOLA be in the situation it is now?



The situation it's in now? Yeah, most likely...which is, practically empty and controlled by the authorities (although ideally it'd be New Orleans police, not US Army doing the patrols). But if everything had gone right and to the prescribed plan (I do believe that there was a plan in place, it just wasn't executed), then you wouldn't have had the however many thousands of displaced people essentially trapped at the Superdome and Convention Center because they weren't evacuated from the city before the hurricane hit, not to mention the roaming gangs and random dead bodies.

"Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed." Clarkson on the Mondeo.