Katrina response.

US to dissect Katrina response.:

"'What I intend to do is to lead an investigation to find out what went right and what went wrong,' Mr Bush said after a Cabinet meeting, noting the response to Katrina boded ill for any response to a terrorist attack in the future."

In all fairness, I think President Bush should allow an independent committee ascertain the shortcomings of the response to hurricane Katrina. It would make more sense to use people without a series of other interests and engagements and with a completely impartial view. They need to be coupled with the locals, like the mayors and then some representatives picked at random from those who left the areas and those who stayed. Add one or two journalists to the mix and you probably have a fairly balanced and useful committee who can identify the problems and help map out a policy and plan for emergency situations such as hurricane Katrina. Everyone watched it coming. Looking, looking , looking. Absorbed in the watching of it people knew it was serious but did not translate that into appropriate action other than to tell people to get out and then tell those that couldn't to go here and here. At that point the whole thing fell apart very badly because those who had left may not have had a clear idea as to the best place to go and those who stayed then had no one who was then going to manage thousands of people stuck in a venue with absolutely nothing except heat, feces, urine, blood, dead bodies, traumatised people, injured people...you name it, they had it. There was no sanitation, no supplies, no respite, no counselling, no nothing. Pain , degradation, fear and panic. That they survived that long after a hurricane of force 5 is probably a tribute to them. But we have been there and done that. The who does what and the who is doing what was missing because everyone was glued to it coming, it being there and what it looked like.

Some people have said it's a result of global warming and that whole issue needs to be carefully considered because we keep talking about it and if global warming did contribute to the strength hurricane Katrina then it does need to be dealt with.

Mr. Bush needs to stand back and let others take the seat for resolving the issues relating to the people in the hurricane affected areas being inadequately dealt with. He will then be able to look at what comes out of it from his stand point and maybe reconsider parts of the findings. His job, as I see it, is to be there for the people in the affected areas and see that the recovery is properly in place while others are doing the debriefing and post mortem.