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“The Feds don’t have a clue what’s going on down here. They flew down here one time, two days after the doggone, after the event was over, with TV cameras, AP reporters, every kind of goddam – excuse my French, everybody in America – but I am l pissed.
“I basically told the President that we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over here in Airforce One does not do it justice.
“I have been all around this city and I am very frustrated because we are not able to marshall resources and we are outmanned in just about every respect.
“You know the reason why the looters got out of control? Because we had most of our resources saving people. Thousands of people. Stuck in attics, man. Old ladies, when you pull off the goddam ventilator vent and you look down, and they’re standing in there with water up to their frickin’ neck.”
Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans,
WWL Radio, 1 September 2005.
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