Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Sindaco NOLA "happy with the president", accusa governatore

Pare che non tutti gli americani siano incazzati con bush.
Uno pare proprio di no: il sindaco di New Orleans (D).
Perň č parecchio incazzato col governatore.
Trascrizione di un'intervista alla CNN;
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NAGIN: He [BUSH] came down and saw it, and he put a general on the field.
His name is General Honore. And when he hit the field, we started to see
action. 
(...)
NAGIN: She said that she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have
been great if we could of left Air Force One, walked outside, and told the
world that we had this all worked out. It didnąt happen, and more people
died. 
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NAGIN: Look, Iąll take whatever responsibility that I have to take. But let
me ask you this question: When you have a city of 500,000 people, and you
have a category 5 storm bearing down on you, and you have the best youąve
ever done is evacuate 60 percent of the people out of the city, and you have
never issued a mandatory evacuation in the cityąs history, a city that is a
couple of hundred years old, I did that. I elevated the level of distress to
the citizens. 
And I donąt know what else I could do, other than to tell them that itąs a
mandatory evacuation. And if they stayed, make sure you have a frigging ax
in your home, where you can bust out the roof just in case the water starts
flowing. 
And as a last resort, once this thing is above a category 3, there are no
buildings in this city to withstand a category 3, a category 4 or a category
5 storm, other than the Superdome. Thatąs where we sent people as a shelter
of last resort. When that filled up, we sent them to the Convention Center.
Now, you tell me what else we could have done.
S. OąBRIEN: What has Secretary Chertoff promised you? What has Donald
Rumsfeld given you and promised you?
NAGIN: Look, Iąve gotten promises to ‹ I canąt stand anymore promises. I
donąt want to hear anymore promises. I want to see stuff done. And thatąs
why Iąm so happy that the president came down here, because I think they
were feeding him a line of bull also. And they were telling him things
werenąt as bad as it was.
He came down and saw it, and he put a general on the field. His name is
General Honore. And when he hit the field, we started to see action.
And what the state was doing, I donąt frigging know. But I tell you, I am
pissed. It wasnąt adequate.
And then, the president and the governor sat down. We were in Air Force One.
I said, ŚMr. President, Madam Governor, you two have to get in sync. If you
donąt get in sync, more people are going to die.ą
S. OąBRIEN: What date was this? When did you say that? When did you say...
NAGIN: Whenever air Force One was here.
S. OąBRIEN: OK. 
NAGIN: And this was after I called him on the telephone two days earlier.
And I said, ŚMr. President, Madam Governor, you two need to get together on
the same page, because of the lack of coordination, people are dying in my
city.ą 
S. OąBRIEN: Thatąs two days ago.
NAGIN: They both shook ‹ I donąt know the exact date. They both shook their
head and said yes. I said, ŚGreat.ą I said, ŚEverybody in this room is
getting ready to leave.ą There was senators and his cabinet people, you name
it, they were there. Generals. I said, ŚEverybody right now, weąre leaving.
These two people need to sit in a room together and make a doggone decision
right now.ą 
S. OąBRIEN: And was that done?
NAGIN: The president looked at me. I think he was a little surprised. He
said, łNo, you guys stay here. Weąre going to another section of the plane,
and weąre going to make a decision.˛
He called me in that office after that. And he said, łMr. Mayor, I offered
two options to the governor.˛ I said ‹ and I donąt remember exactly what.
There were two options. I was ready to move today. The governor said she
needed 24 hours to make a decision.
S. OąBRIEN: Youąre telling me the president told you the governor said she
needed 24 hours to make a decision?
NAGIN: Yes. 
S. OąBRIEN: Regarding what? Bringing troops in?
NAGIN: Whatever they had discussed. As far as what the ‹ I was abdicating a
clear chain of command, so that we could get resources flowing in the right
places. 
S. OąBRIEN: And the governor said no.
NAGIN: She said that she needed 24 hours to make a decision. It would have
been great if we could of left Air Force One, walked outside, and told the
world that we had this all worked out. It didnąt happen, and more people
died. 
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http://edition.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2005/09/04/sot
.nagin.decision.cnn


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E noi dovremmo fidarci di un individuo del genere?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Nagin
 

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Mah, pero' nella parte finale dell'intervista non sembra cosi'
soddisfatto di Bush (ad esempio dove dice che lui e il governatore
devono subito mettere il culo su un aereo e sistemare la faccenda)
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html
[...]
NAGIN: Well, did the tsunami victims request? Did it go through a
formal process to request?
You know, did the Iraqi people request that we go in there? Did they
ask us to go in there? What is more important?
And I'll tell you, man, I'm probably going get in a whole bunch of
trouble. I'm probably going to get in so much trouble it ain't even
funny. You probably won't even want to deal with me after this
interview is over.
WWL: You and I will be in the funny place together.
NAGIN: But we authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq lickety-quick. After
9/11, we gave the president unprecedented powers lickety-quick to take
care of New York and other places.
Now, you mean to tell me that a place where most of your oil is coming
through, a place that is so unique when you mention New Orleans
anywhere around the world, everybody's eyes light up -- you mean to
tell me that a place where you probably have thousands of people that
have died and thousands more that are dying every day, that we can't
figure out a way to authorize the resources that we need? Come on, man.
You know, I'm not one of those drug addicts. I am thinking very
clearly.
And I don't know whose problem it is. I don't know whether it's the
governor's problem. I don't know whether it's the president's problem,
but somebody needs to get their ass on a plane and sit down, the two of
them, and figure this out right now.