Our presence would keep people from evacuating and encourage others to come into the city.

These Red Cross folk better beware-if they enter, the national guard has every right to shoot them dead.

“It is the lack of will and/or ability of the world's only super-power to ask for support overseas. Or am I the one who is arrogant?”

or in the words of your government leaders..The business of the new world order is doing the little guys for the big money ideals of the few.

How is this for stupendous naiveté: But noting her own roots in Alabama, and her father's in Louisiana, Dr. Rice announced plans to visit the region this weekend and said, "That Americans would somehow in a color-affected way decide who to help and who not to help - I just don't believe it." This is a comment by Condy Rice. ????????????????????????????????????

So, yeah, come on down Condi. But be forewarned that a serious reality check awaits you when you get here.

barricaded the only exit out of New Orleans and were not letting people leave the convention center

Nothing here is different people - money and property is paramount - humanitarian aid is a secondary priority.

...it couldn't be because the more survivors and people get out, the more truth gets out could it?

...except that nothing contained in this [Stafford] Act shall limit or in any way affect the responsibilities of the American National Red Cross under the Act of January 5, 1905,

Only a troll like Jim would pretend there is no difference between keeping small freelance rescue operators out, and barring the freaking Red Cross, the premire disaster relief org. out of New Orleans.

You might consider, though, that the real villian is a MSM and the Far Left which has demonstrated they will criticize anything the military does.

...absent leadership, inability to coordinate and orchestrate big projects, a basic disinterest in the necessary functions of a federal government... paralysis in the face of a crisis that demanded immediate and significant action.

Leave it to the IRC [International Red Cross] to take stupid to the next level

a bunch of dumb folks at IRC just dying to do dumb things

You might consider, though, that the real villian is a MSM and the Far Left which has demonstrated they will criticize anything the military does.

...might consider, though, that the real villian is a MSM and the Far Left...

I have no idea as to the security situation on the ground,

and neither does anyone on this blog.

’twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. And if I pass this way again, you can rest assured I’ll always do my best for her, on that I give my word In a world of steel-eyed death, and men who are fighting to be warm. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. Not a word was spoke between us, there was little risk involved Everything up to that point had been left unresolved. Try imagining a place where it’s always safe and warm. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. I was burned out from exhaustion, buried in the hail, Poisoned in the bushes an’ blown out on the trail, Hunted like a crocodile, ravaged in the corn. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. Suddenly I turned around and she was standin’ there With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair. She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. Now there’s a wall between us, somethin’ there’s been lost I took too much for granted, got my signals crossed. Just to think that it all began on a long-forgotten morn. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. Well, the deputy walks on hard nails and the preacher rides a mount But nothing really matters much, it’s doom alone that counts And the one-eyed undertaker, he blows a futile horn. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. I’ve heard newborn babies wailin’ like a mournin’ dove And old men with broken teeth stranded without love. Do I understand your question, man, is it hopeless and forlorn? Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes I bargained for salvation an’ they gave me a lethal dose. I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm. Well, I’m livin’ in a foreign country but I’m bound to cross the line Beauty walks a razor’s edge, someday I’ll make it mine. If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born. Come in, she said, I’ll give you shelter from the storm.

So here goes: Homeland Security (her term, not mine) told the Red Cross DO NOT enter New Orleans and says this still now. And why, you may ask? Not Security. Not worker safety. Not lack of access. It was because people would be drawn to the Red Cross food and they wouldn't want to go to be evacuated. So I asked: "The people starving and dying at the convention center yesterday couldn't get Red Cross food and water because they would be drawn to the food at the convention center, where they were, and not want to be evacuated from the convention center where no evacuations were going on or planned and all the while they are dying". (Actually, it was a couple questions.) She went back into her spiel about all of the other good work they were doing. When I asked again, she said yes, that was true. She seem relieved to admit it.

we've had a Class 5 Political Incident

The Red Cross as an international Organization has a well documented history of going into very dangerous places.

This may get me kicked off this site, and I'll probably regret saying this later, but here goes... Jim... you know how to use a gun? Bullets are cheap, and plentiful, you can get lots of 'em almost anywhere if you are out of 'em... You only need one, though...

PPJ - you are so full of crap. God- you a disgusting human being.

I don't know and you don't know. I said nothing about not wanting to know.

Considering the criticism they would receive if they let the Red Cross in, and then the Red Cross workers were injured, I can hardly blame them for caution.