And apparently they did have food and water.

Yesterday, I just lost it that there seemed to be no preparedness at all on the part of the federal government, stored food and water, and the transportation to get them to the site of a disaster or terror attack.

Well, I'm not sure if it's better or worse, but they did have stores of food and water, they just waited two extra days until Bush got back to Washington so he could announce their deployment.

People will die because of this!!

Oh, and my underlying point still holds. There is no preparation for a rapid response to a massive disaster/terror attack. Maybe I can accept the difficulties imposed by the water in New Orleans as limitations on getting people out, or supplies in, but that doesn't change the fact that there is no established routine for evacuees/refugees. What happens when the much threatened nuke goes off in one of our cities? Do we have to wait for another city, like Houston, to put together a package of relief to bring the burned and sick to the Astrodome? Isn't that the root purpose of our government?

And, okay, so the government did have millions of gallons of water and MRE's sitting in a warehouse, that's good, but I want to know whose decision, or lack of decision, left them sitting there for two days after the levees broke. I mean, Jesus, that decision caused unneccesary deaths.

Perhaps Chertoff our Homeland Security Director, the link between FEMA and Bush might have some explanation.

"The critical thing was to get people out of there before the disaster," he said on NBC's Today program. "Some people chose not to obey that order. That was a mistake on their part."

I wish I believed in God so I could be certain these people would suffer in hell.