WRONG she sent a letter to the White House asking that Bush authorize the transfer of NG from neighboring states to go to LA BEFORE KATRINA landfall. This was a request to FEDERALIZE the neighboring State NG to help in LA.
Bush had other more pressing things to do as well as the rest of the staff, shoe shopping in NYC, fly fishing in Montana and Birthday Parties in CA. Three days after landfall Bush noticed some commotion in NOLA then wanted to take control of everything, the Result was brain numbing incompetence and needless American deaths. On Aug 18, 8:08 pm, dick thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > Your rewriting of facts is amazing. > > Bush could not send NG troops. That requires the state governor and the > La state governor refused Bush's request for sending the NG troops. > > The federal troops, Coast Guard and Army, were there within 2 days. > They are the second line of defense to the state NG, not the first. The > governor did not respond until the hurricane was already hitting the > state and Bush had to wait for her to respond by law. > > The state and the city of NOLA did not even enact their own emergency > plans. That was why all the school buses were stranded there. > > The Army and NG did man the stadium area for saving lives. It was the > NOLA police who did not act. > > The other states of the area did implement their emergency planning and > were thus able to respond to the problems a lot sooner that La did. In > fact that was the main reason that the governor was replaced by the voters. > > Popular Science did a whole big story on the response to Katrina and the > result was that the feds did just what they were supposed to. > > BTW while on the subject of responding to national emergencies, where > was Zero during the big flooding and power outage this year. He never > did show up to address the problem. He flew all around the area and > never did a thing. No meetings with the governors, the mayors and the > other officials. No help from the feds at all. And there were more > people involved in this one than in Katrina. > > > > VT VirtualTruth wrote: > > Kartrina showed the fallacy of not having the ability of the > > President > > to Federalize Troops at a moments notice during National emergencies. > > > Of course Bush merely ignored the request from the LA Governor > > and the other Governors who wanted to send troops to help. > > > On Aug 18, 4:15 pm, Travis <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> <a href="http://www.progressive.org/wx081209b.html";>The Pentagon Wants > >> Authority to Post Almost 400,000 Military Personnel in U.S. | The > >> Progressive</a> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
