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In article <6p_Se.875$I7.705@newssvr25.news.prodigy.net>,
Herb <hrNOSPAMreeves@swbell.net> wrote:
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>"slim" <pickin's@nyc.rr.com> wrote in message 
>news:431C5A41.F5D1ADAE@nyc.rr.com...
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>> Ducks-R-US wrote:
>>>
>>> "Tim Campbell" <timcall@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
>>> news:1125894045.886073.267790@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>>> > Bush Declares Evacuation Victory -- Cindy Sheehan has left Crawford
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > George W. Bush, who spent two days last week using military people as
>>> > backdrops for his photo-ops in his war against weepy mothers, won the
>>> > public relations battle that occupied him Tuesday and Wednesday. Cindy
>>> > Sheehan surrendered to the high-priority blitz staged by the president
>>> > who utilized triple the costs he had spent for saving New Orleans
>>> > drowning citizens on the same Tuesday and Wednesday. Soldiers and
>>> > sailors stood around on Tuesday-Wedneday instead of mobilizing to help
>>> > anybody other than Bush himself.
>>> >
>>>     It was a State's rights issue you Liberal Gull.
>>
>> If she asked for the The Guard, they could NOT come in as law enforcement,
>> only as rescue. She needed troops who could keep the peace.
>>


If food and water started arriving in quantity Monday afternoon there
wouldn't be a need for heavy security.  FEMA should have been
positioning suppllies starting SUnday.

ttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179587/page/1

  On Monday morning, as the storm slammed into the Gulf
  Coast, Col. Tim Tarchick of the 920th Rescue Wing, Air
  Force Reserve Command, got on the phone to call every
  agency he could think of to ask permission to take his
  three rescue helicopters into the disaster zone as soon
  as the storm abated. The response was noncommittal.
  FEMA, the federal agency that is supposed to handle
  disasters, told Tarchick that it wasn't authorized to
  task military units. That had to come from the Defense
  Department. Tarchick wasn't able to cut through the
  red tape until 4 p.m. Tuesday.more than 24 hours after
  the storm had passed. His crews plucked hundreds of
  people off rooftops, but when they delivered them to
  an assigned landing zone, there was "total chaos. No
  food, no water, no bathrooms, no nothing." There was
  "no structure, no organization, no command center,"
  Tarchick told NEWSWEEK.

and

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9179587/page/5/

  For days, Bush's top advisers argued over legal
  niceties about who was in charge, according to three
  White House officials who declined to be identified
  because of the sensitivity of the negotiations.
  Beginning early in the week, Justice Department
  lawyers presented arguments for federalizing the
  Guard, but Defense Department lawyers fretted about
  untrained 19-year-olds trying to enforce local laws,
  according to a senior law-enforcement official who
  requested anonymity citing the delicate nature of the
  discussions.

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