What is going on?

Here is another story which highlights the fact that something isn't right in the Katrina relief effort:

You're on your own


I am no longer prepared to excuse the US government's awful response to the disaster as mere incompetence, because too much planning went into the failure.

For instance:

FEMA sends aid away, leaves it idling uselessly in Maryland.

British food aid to be incinerated

Chertoff delays Katrina response

FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations

FEMA turns away experienced firefighters

FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks

FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel

FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food

FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans

FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid

FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board

FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck

FEMA turns away generators

FEMA urges First Responders Not To Respond

FEMA shows "lack of urgency and lack of respect" handling dead bodies

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Consider that these were not things FEMA failed to do, or to consider, but did consider and did do. They were actions in other words and not a lack thereof. They were actions that would not make sense to an idiot. Why then, should they make sense to Michael Chertoff and Michael Brown?

I think it is time for the American press to do some digging. There's a story here that I think they are missing. Something about the poor response seems deliberate.