WERE THEY HONEST THEY'D SAY "HOPED":

Death Toll in New Orleans May Be Lower Than First Feared (SEWELL CHAN and MICHAEL LUO, 9/10/05, NY Times)

The first organized effort to scour the city for its dead has turned up far fewer bodies than expected, officials said Friday. That raised hopes that the death toll from Hurricane Katrina might be much lower than the 10,000 that the mayor and others had predicted.

As the floodwater continued to recede, police officers, National Guard members and members of the 82nd Airborne Division of the Army began to canvass street to street and house to house in the first phase of a hunt to find, remove and identify the dead.

"There's some encouragement in what we found in the initial sweeps," Col. Terry J. Ebbert, the city's director of homeland security, said. "The numbers so far are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000."

The degree to which the Left is estranged from America is amply demonstrated by the fact they'll find these numbers disappointing. Indeed, there are likely already stories of how the "real numbers" are being covered up.

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 10, 2005 6:08 AM