Originally published September 23 2005
Reaction to Katrina becoming increasingly negative toward Bush administration
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Bush Administration's handling of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath has come under heavy criticism, since more than 10,000 people are feared dead and relief convoys took almost four days to arrive in Louisiana, The Guardian reports.
George Bush arrived last night in the ravaged Gulf coast region amid mounting criticism of his handling of the crisis and a prediction by one senator that the death toll in Louisiana alone could top 10,000 people.
As thousands of people sat on the streets of New Orleans, having spent their fourth day waiting to be rescued, the city fell deeper into chaos, with gangs roaming the city and corpses rotting in the sun.
Article continues Kathleen Blanco, the Democrat governor of Louisiana, threatened looters with a shoot-to-kill policy.
Calling for the immediate deployment of regular combat troops in New Orleans, David Vitter, a Louisiana Republican senator said: "My guess is that it [the death toll] will start at 10,000, but that is only a guess."
An emergency military convoy of aid supplies arrived in New Orleans yesterday to help in the relief of tens of thousands of refugees made desperate in the aftermath of the hurricane.
In another sign of aid finally getting through, commercial aircraft carrying supplies were arriving at an increased rate of four per hour at New Orleans international airport, the department of transport said.
Standing alongside the Republican governors of Alabama and Mississippi at his first stop in Mobile, Alabama, Mr Bush said: "We have a responsibility to clean up this mess.
Yesterday the US Congress broke away from its holiday to implement a $10.5bn (�5.6bn) aid package, while the Pentagon promised 1,400 national guardsmen a day to stop looting in the city.
But these moves did little to quell the mounting anger of the hurricane's victims and local officials, particularly in New Orleans.
The same response should be applied in this case, too, he said.
He said there was "a continuous flow of commodities", into the Superdome in New Orleans, where thousands of people are taking refuge in crowded conditions.
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