I can barely even think....

I am reading through the Chicago Tribunes coverage of Katrina.

I just read this article posted about a half hour ago. I am shaking and can hardly type. PLEASE READ THIS. "New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes"

Just as an example of what's happening to people down there:

Every so often, an armored state police vehicle cruised in front of the convention center with four or five officers in riot gear with automatic weapons. But there was no sign of help from the National Guard.
(snip)
Col. Henry Whitehorn, chief of the Louisiana State Police, said he heard of numerous instances of New Orleans police officers -- many of whom from flooded areas -- turning in their badges.

"They indicated that they had lost everything and didn't feel that it was worth them going back to take fire from looters and losing their lives," Whitehorn said.
(snip)
At one point the crowd began to chant "We want help! We want help!" Later, a woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm, "The Lord is my shepherd ..."

"We are out here like pure animals," the Issac Clark said.

"We've got people dying out here -- two babies have died, a woman died, a man died," said Helen Cheek. "We haven't had no food, we haven't had no water, we haven't had nothing. They just brought us here and dropped us."

Tourist Debbie Durso of Washington, Mich., said she asked a police officer for assistance and his response was, "'Go to hell -- it's every man for himself.'"

"This is just insanity," she said. "We have no food, no water ... all these trucks and buses go by and they do nothing but wave."

FEMA director Michael Brown said the agency just learned about the situation at the convention center Thursday and quickly scrambled to provide food, water and medical care and remove the corpses.

So, we tell people to evacuate them there, we ignore them, and then we act surprised that may not have been the best plan?

Bush said trust me, I can handle it. I can protect you. This is how he protects you. This is the kind of planning and execution we can expect from his administration. I just hope he doesn't get confused and go to an aircraft carrier in the Gulf and declare victory. (like he did, what 2 years ago in Iraq?)
-sorry, I'm not trying to be funny, just cynical-

It didn't have to be like this.