The request was made by the Red Cross on Thursday, September 1st, 3 days after the hurricane hit. At that point, I believe they were trying to evacuate the people at the Superdome. How did FEMA do at that job?

>Straight from the Red Cross web-site:
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>http://www.redcross.org/faq/0,1096,0_682_4524,00.html
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>The State of Louisiana prevented the Red Cross from providing food, water and sanitation kits to those in the New Orleans Superdome and Convention Center. Their reasoning and results were abhorrent. So all you who are bashing the Feds, US Military, etc., can lay off of this one. This fiasco lies at the doorstep of the Louisiana Governor who controls the State Homeland Defense department.
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>Also, Major Garrett (of Fox News) who investigated this story was interviewed today on Sean Hannity's radio. The Red Cross aid was pre-stationed before the hurricane hit and was ready to go. The State did not want them to aid those at the Superdome and Convention Center because the State wanted those people evacuated out. Providing them food, water, sanitary kits, would "only attract more evacuees" and would make it harder to get them to leave for other shelters outside the city.
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>Try explaining this one away, and not using the hundreds of buses that were available all BEFORE the levees broke and AFTER the hurricane in the city was over.