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A Gumbo of Blame for the New Orleans Debacle
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and their staffs should take lead positions now in the enormous and expensive undertaking confronting the region.
The appointment of a federal manager to oversee this effort is essential.
WILLIAM BABBINGTON
Fairfax
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President Bush isn't responsible for Hurricane Katrina or for the disaster in New Orleans. The federal government can do nothing in such situations until it is requested to do so by the local governments.
Why didn't Mayor C. Ray Nagin have the city's school buses standing by to evacuate people? Why didn't he request assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency sooner? Why did he tell people to go to the Superdome when it wasn't ready to handle them?
And why didn't Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco have the National Guard standing by -- no, not all the guardsmen were in Iraq -- in armories to control looters and rescue stranded residents?
Why weren't plans in place on the city and state levels to handle a disaster that has been predicted for 100 years?
Where did the money go that was allocated to shore up the levees?
