[Rhodes22-list] Rummies observation

[Bill Effros]

Nice try, Ed, but it won't wash.

1/2 the Louisiana National Guard was in Iraq--along with all of their 
meals ready to eat, and most of their equipment.  (We have now asked 
your friends in France to send us food and water trucks.)  Walmart 
immediately sent water, but FEMA sent it back saying New Orleans didn't 
need it.

The Director of Homeland Security and the Head of FEMA both said they 
didn't even know there were 15,000 people totally at the mercy of roving 
gangs within the New Orleans Convention Center at a time when news 
organizations were reporting about it on national television from the site.

The Governor and Mayor immediately called other states for help, and the 
other Governors were ready to send, but W. was clearing brush in Texas, 
Condi was shopping in NYC, -- (August is a vacation month) -- and there 
was no one in DC to authorize the transfer of National Guard troops.  
(You see, the states can't just send their armed militias into other 
states, they've got to get authorization from the Federal 
Government--which didn't happen.  And why should it?  "I don't think 
anyone anticipated the breach of the levees" -- George W. Bush, Good 
Morning America, September 1, 2005.

The USS Bataan has been moored in the Gulf since last Monday, basically 
doing nothing.  It can make 100,000 gallons of fresh water a day, it has 
6 (unused) operating rooms, and hundreds of (empty) hospital beds, it's 
supposed to have helicopters so all these resources can be made 
available to people in disaster areas.  It aided Tsunami victims...

PUH-leeze.

Bill Effros

PS -- This information comes to me, not from the New York Times, but 
from Fox News.  Even Mr. Murdoch has had enough.  It's fine to have an 
orientation, but it's time to take your head out of the sand.


ed kroposki wrote:

>Mr. Rummy, 
>	You want the Louisiana's Governors head to roll?  But she is a
>liberal democrat!  Where are your political loyalties?  
>	You know my orientation.  The truth is she should have declared
>martial law the day before the storm.  On the day of the storm she had
>responsibility to call for not only Louisiana National Guard but also out of
>state Guard assistance.  There was another state Governor that said he had
>alerted his National Guard and was waiting for a phone call (or any other
>official method of request).  How can you be in agreement with me?  This is
>impossible. 
>	I will one up you.  Both she and the Mayor of New Orleans ought to
>be tried for murder.  I request that you be put on the jury.  People were
>officially told to go to the Superdome and convention center and no security
>was in place.  That was a major abdication of responsibility.
>	I have no problem holding those who accept high political office to
>a high standard or even just a reasonable standard. 
>	Why are you on the list, if I lived where you do, I would have been
>out in that cool breeze.
>
>Ed K
>Greenville, SC, USA
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>Thena,
>It is sooooo good to hear from you. I have been traveling for a family  
>members wedding and just returned. The highest gas price we saw was $3.41
>per  
>gallon. It was really frustrating watching the news and seeing all the
>people  
>sitting around and nothing being done. Some political heads are going to
>roll  
>for this fiasco, starting with the governor's.
> 
>Rummy
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