Re: Das Rote Kreuz darf NICHT nach New Orleans
Geschrieben von Templar am 05. September 2005 15:57:07:
Als Antwort auf: Das Rote Kreuz darf NICHT nach New Orleans geschrieben von Johannes am 05. September 2005 15:37:54:
Noch schlimmer Johannes...
...zumindest wenn man dieses Blogg mit Hinweis auf ein BBC-Interview glauben schenkt. Wie ist sowas möglich?
"Die Koordination der militärischen Hilfsmaßnahmen liegt beim US Northern Command in Colorado. Am Samstag wurde der Kommandant Sean Kelly von BBC interviewt - und erklärte, woran der viel zu späte Einsatz der Hilfstruppen lag: nicht an mangelender Bereitschaft, sondern am fehlenden Auftrag des Präsidenten:
A: Now I'm sure you're aware of the criticism that the authorities have been slow to respond to this. When did you get the order to start relief work?
K: NorthCom started planning before the storm even hit. We were ready for the storm when it hit Florida because, as you remember, it crossed the bottom part of Florida, and then we were plaining, you know, once it was pointed towards the Gulf Coast. So what we did was we activated what we call defense coordinating officers to work with the state to say okay, what do you think you'll need, and we set up staging bases that could be started. We had the USS Baton sailing almost behind the hurricane so that after the hurricane made landfall it's search and rescue helicopters would be available almost immediately. So we had things ready. The only caveat is, we have to wait until the President authorizes us to do so. The laws of the United States say that the military can't just act in this fashion, we have to wait for the President to give us permission.
Video hier
Was die absehbare Verteidgungslinie des Weissen Hauses betrifft - man sei von den lokalen Behörden nicht rechtzeitig über das Ausmaß der Katastrophe informiert worden - hier das statement des Bezirkspräsidenten von Jefferson Perish, dem neben NO gelegenen stark betroffenen Bezirk, der in "Meet the Press" am Samstag in Tränen ausbrach:
We have been abandoned by our own country. Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast, but the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history.(...) It's not just Katrina that caused all these deaths in New Orleans here. Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now. It's so obvious.(...)
MR. RUSSERT: Hold on. Hold on, sir. Shouldn't the mayor of New Orleans and the governor of New Orleans bear some responsibility? Couldn't they have been much more forceful, much more effective and much more organized in evacuating the area?
MR. BROUSSARD: Sir, they were told like me, every single day, "The cavalry's coming," on a federal level, "The cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming, the cavalry's coming." I have just begun to hear the hoofs of the cavalry. The cavalry's still not here yet, but I've begun to hear the hoofs, and we're almost a week out.(...) The guy who runs this building I'm in, emergency management, he's responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?" And he said, "Yeah, Mama, somebody's coming to get you. Somebody's coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody's coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody's coming to get you on Friday." And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night."
Transkript der Gesprächs mit den Behördenvertretern