>>>In New Orleans they ordered an evacuation. Approx 20% of the people stayed. Many, if not most, because they are too poor to afford transportation or a place to stay. They should have been provided.
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>>According to the reports I heard they were offered a ride out of the city Days before the storm hit. Many just flatly refused to go.
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>Gotta wonder, though, how it could have been that 100,000+ residents were OFFERRED a ride out yet none of the network/cable channels have reported it (at least that I've heard of, and I have it on (CNN, NBC) pretty much all the time here).

Because they weren't shot, raped, killed, sodomized, or had their identities stolen. If they would've been offered a ride AND one or more of the above, then, my friend, the networks and newspapers would've made sure that the entire world knew about it. Oh, and before you take the "national security" angle, it's too soon to tell whether any of the 100,000 had any al-qaeda ties.

Alex