Well, if you'll recall......Mayor Nagin of New Orleans first estimated that up to 10,000 had died in Katrina. It's turned out to be less than 1/10th that number.

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

Here's one that I hope the earthquake DID get: Osama bin Laden.

Wouldn't that just be divine justice? Allah killing bin Laden on the very day that al Qaeda had planned another NY city attack? October 9th.

Well, we can all hope that Allah got his target!!!

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

Nagin orignally estimated it at "hundreds or even thousands" without adding any specific details. The 10,000 estimate appeared about 2 weeks after the hurricane hit.

and it hasn't turned out to be less than 1/10th of it, because we don't have the final tally, and we won't for months. They called off the official government "search and recovery" but thats only because they outsourced the job to the private sector, and put less focus on it. The ninth ward still hasn't been thouroughly searched.

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"The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind--surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false" - 1984

Yes: the 10,000 number came from Nagin. And yes....the final number is known. Not to say a few more may crop up....but it won't be many if any at all.

Authorities end search for bodies in Louisiana
State death toll stands at 964 following Katrina

Updated: 6:45 p.m. ET Oct. 3, 2005
NEW ORLEANS - The search for bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina has ended in Louisiana, and more searches will be conducted only if someone reports seeing a body, a state official said Monday.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9583722/

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"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama said mockingly of the New York senator. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

From your source:

Also from your source:

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/03/new...ing/index.html

From my source:

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"The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind--surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false" - 1984

i'm not trying to indicate that 10,000 were killed in New Orleans, because you are right, the figure seems to be much lower. You are correct, the 10,000 figure came from nagin, but that was a couple weeks after his original estimate which said "hundreds or even thousands".

I am saying that the number will certainly keep rising. Recent news reports should not be taken as any indication that they are done searching or the death toll will stop rising.

As they said a couple few weeks ago, an accurate toll won't be known for months.

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another thing, lets get back to the topic, i'll try to stop hijacking this.

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"The belief that nothing exists outside your own mind--surely there must be some way of demonstrating that it was false" - 1984

that this might get Bin Laden. That would be some consolation for all the innocent people killed in this natural disaster.

Yeah, you've got to respect a god who kills 30,000 innocent people in order to get one bad guy.

What a bizarre way to look at things. I certainly hope that the earthquake got a lot of bad guys. But to view it as "divine justice" is just.... wrong.

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Man up.

hmm, well here's proof that alah is a bad god, making islamic muslims bad, proing there terorist, so neocons are right by default of a nutshel: Iraqi war is Just.

God doesn't cause natural disasters.