Have you ever worked for the federal government? Do you know the real reason there was no post conflict reconstruction plan in Iraq? I do. I worked on perhaps the most comprehensive database in the world on how to manage post conflict reconstruction. It went back to the Marshall plan. It was simply brilliant. And amazingly, it was supported by the US ARMY's non-profit Association, AUSA. When the retired colonels and generals who worked on it, all career military, but also progressive, dedicated, intelligent and caring people (Democrats) took it to the Pentagon and State, the Bushies basically told them to stick where the sun doesn't shine. They just didn't want to hear it. It's like being told there is a hurricane coming and willfully ignoring the warning for 4 days... They chose to have no follow on plan in Iraq. It's eerily similar to NA.
John Hayes wrote: >Jerry Eyers wrote: > > >>The reason that FEMA couldn't respond, is because there is very >>little of FEMA left. >> >> >snip > > > >>No one at DHS knows anything about repsonding to disasters and >>they had fired everyone who did. Result? Just look around. >> >> >snip > > > >>The problem is DHS and the funding for FEMA. Simple sollution... >>put the $ back where was supposed to be and for what it was >>intended, and get rid of the SS (oops, I mean HS). >> >> > >Seems to me putting a lawyer with no knowledge of disaster relief in >charge of the federal agency disaster relief might have been part of the >problem, eh? Political cronyism that stresses loyalty over knowledge, >experience and competence strikes me as a rather glaring problem. I >mean, after 9/11, who could have imagined that FEMA would need respond >to a disaster? > >I could even forgive our President if he'd replaced Brown once it became >clear that Brown had no clue what he was doing. Hell, it's not like the >President couldn't have gone to his bench and put Guiliani in the game. >But no, our President's exact words were: > >"Brownie, you're doing a helluva job. The FEMA director is working 24 >hours a day." > >Are you kidding me? Brown admits on national TV that he has no knowledge >of thousands of refugees at the convention center, and our says he's >"doing a helluva job." It would be farcical if the results weren't so >tragic. > >jh > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
