Paul Krugman in the
NY Times:
...it was already clear by last Friday that Katrina could do immense damage along the Gulf Coast. Yet the response you'd expect from an advanced country never happened. Thousands of Americans are dead or dying, not because they refused to evacuate, but because they were too poor or too sick to get out without help - and help wasn't provided. Many have yet to receive any help at all.
At some point, when the political stink overwhelms, when Bush is staring the end of his presidency square in the eye, they will try and shift the story to "we gave an evacuation order" and therefore we are no longer morally obliged to save lives. If you buy that, you are buying political spin over heaps of needless dead. It is coming. Do not expect anything else from this president.