Unbelieveable.
NEW ORLEANS - New Orleans turned much of its attention Sunday to gathering up and counting the dead across a ghastly landscape awash in perhaps thousands of corpses. "It is going to be about as ugly of a scene as I think you can imagine," the nation's homeland security chief warned.
As authorities struggled to keep order, police shot eight people, killing five or six, after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
Air and boat crews searched flooded neighborhoods for survivors, and federal officials urged those still left in New Orleans to leave for their own safety...
More after the jump...
Charles from
Mercury Rising points to an
Army Times article that's nothing short of extremely disturbing:
Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans
By Joseph R. Chenelly
Times staff writer
NEW ORLEANS -- Combat operations are underway on the streets "to take this city back" in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina...
Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy...
While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations...
You can't make up shit like this. You just can't.
THIS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA, GODDAMIT. AMERICA.
All caused by a 6-1/2 day "My Pet Goat" moment by the Commander in Chief, who flew the other direction (again) when disaster hit.