"At liberal blog community TPMCafe, Greg Simon, President of FasterCures, gives a fascinating account of the makeshift partnership between former Vice President Gore and FasterCures to 'to airlift approximately 270 medical patients and evacuees from the New Orleans airport to hospitals and shelters in Knoxville and Chattanooga, Tennessee.'
This must-read is a factual, shocking inside-gaze at the federal 'rescue' effort. FEMA tried desperately to stop this mercy mission. ('Over the next three hours...I was called by an array of Majors and Lieutenant Commanders telling me to stop. Major Webb from GPMRC , Grant Meade from ESF. Major Lindquist from TRANSCOM all telling me they would not cooperate and they did not know how we had gotten permission to land.')
One big challenge of this mission of mercy was to obtain landing clearance in New Orleans. It took Gore's connections to make it happen. According to blogger Greg Simon, 'Sen. Barack Obama called Gore and asked how had Gore managed to land in New Orleans when the Senator had been refused landing rights to help.' "
Kinda makes me think that FEMA wanted to stop anyone from helping in N.O. Read the article at TPM Cafe, too.
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I have a close friend who was turned back at gunnpoint when trying to enter the city with a truckload of water and supplies one week after the fact.
Gunpoint.
The sad thing is that I am no longer shocked...
I have a close friend who was turned back at gunnpoint when trying to enter the city with a truckload of water and supplies one week after the fact.
Gunpoint.
The sad thing is that I am no longer shocked...
Wow. That's a great story that has not been told - at least not much. Thanks for the link.
Where you at Joseph????
I hope you haven't quit blogging.
Email me ok?
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