***While not nearly as serious, Hurricane Floyd in 1999 was severely mishandled and what was said to Mr. Clinton on this one?The response was very slow and major flooding insued, but folks seem to have forgotten that one.Update for Djahuti:The only thing Clinton built up was pardons for child mollestors and criminals.(OM)A terrible tragedy with lost lives and property.On the otherhand, you have raping, pillaging and looting, which was pretty much how New Orleans was to begin with.The thugs and gangs who are armed and harming innocents should be shot on site!Lets call things how it really is/was.The local government, including the mayor of New Orleans, did a poor job of overseeing the preparation and protection of the citizens.I will also put alot of blame on the fools who ignored the mandatory evacuation.For those who say that alot of the people left were poor and had no way out, the local government should have done a little better job of arranging the evacuation, whether it be school buses or public transportation.I am sick of hearing about it being the Government and George Bush's fault, but I have come to expect that!In closing I will say I am sorry for the loss of life and the suffering that people in Mississippi,Alabama and New Orleans have undergone.