1 Apparently they had an emergency plan, but the Mayor just didn't press the go button. Some have suggested he just didn't want to spend city money if he could get federal money instead.

2 Nagin should be arrested for criminal negligence. Notice how the MSM coverage of Katrina perfectly mirrors its coverage of Iraq: that there is nothing noble or heroic going on, that it's broken, & most of all that's somebody's fault. Just like all the armchair pundits we had telling the Pentagon how to run a war, the empty-headed MSM pundits' message is that everything would work smoothly if only we had the right PLAN (which dovetails with liberal MSM ideology, which holds that the federl govt is responsible for & should be able to fix anything)