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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-16-05 09:39 PM
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7. Do Numbers Matter?
Would it have mattered if it was 5,000 or 10,000 or 100,000 dead? The horror here wasn't the dead, it was and is how the living were treated and are going to be cared for.

There were deaths caused by negligence and those must be investigated independently. There are people whose lives have been destroyed who still haven't reunited with other family members, yet alone look toward rebuilding their lives from the bottom up.

There tends to be a morbid fasciation with the death toll here. Some how the higher it is, that some indication of how evil and callous the booooosh regime is...while others will use lower numbers to say this wasn't as bad as what it was.

The facts are people have and will die in natural disasters...and this one has no parallel. Gulfport and Biloxi were turned to splinters and people died there. You can't blame this regime for that.

However, there stood five long, hot days where thousands of living people in New Orleans were deprived of food and water. They were kept as prisoners in their own city as the federal government played games and their manchild preznit couldn't be bothered with another "problem". This negligence that shouldn't require a body count number after it...just accountability...and those who were directly responsible for preventing food and water from getting into the city during those five days should be held accountable.
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