CNN.com - The disaster response: 'Magnificent' or 'embarrassment'? - Sep 2, 2005

CNN.com - The disaster response: 'Magnificent' or 'embarrassment'? - Sep 2, 2005: "NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- When it comes to assessing the effectiveness of the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, two divergent -- and incongruous -- views have emerged over more than three long days of misery.

In the hurricane-ravaged city, where people are thirsty and hungry, living in squalid conditions and in fear of armed bands of marauding looters, the response is seen as confused, ineffective and puzzlingly slow."