[Rhodes22-list] Rummies observation

[Saroj Gilbert]

Thanks, Bill, for some facts... I couldn't pull the details out to respond 
intelligently...

Saroj

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Effros" <bill at effros.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 12:28 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Rummies observation


> 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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