Re: Bush is either a liar, or an idiot, or both.



Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote: 
Fred Bloggs wrote:



martin griffith wrote:

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 16:02:07 GMT, in sci.electronics.design Fred
Bloggs <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:

Fred Bloggs wrote:


I think you are being unreasonably critical, because you don't have a clue of the all the things that need to be done to mobilize a response. Five days is not bad at all considering that the first responders, state emergency personnel and National Guard, were knocked out themselves. The majority of National Guard personnel must be contacted by phone and notified to report for duty, phone lines were down in a lot of places, and many of them probably had their own personal emergencies to deal with. That is just one example of how time consuming the mobilization is.




In Britain we have an airmobile brigade that can be deployed anywhere in the world in 24hrs.
The US military not up to that?


That's the Pentagon's call- go ask Rumsfeld. 




from
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007039.php


The guys who really need help are the satirists- nothing they can say
doesn't turn into reality


martin



Modern society is all about "failing upwards"- you have the same thing in corporate America. That Directorship is largely a political interface job and requires no specialized skills in the actual operation of the agency- so I consider these criticisms to be of no significance.


Right.
Appointing utter fuckups to top jobs never hurt anyone...
How can I apply? Or do I need to have fucked up something really big first? I'm afraid my level of incompetence might not be up to Bush's requirements...

Dirk

The Consensus:-
The political party for the new millenium
http://www.theconsensus.org

Everyone deserves a second chance:-) This nonsense is about the FEMA director is just the tip of the iceberg - there are failures all over the place- and the competent in-house specialists are branded as dinosaurs and undesirables in favor of the more generalistic types of career meeting-attenders and overall non-performers. These waters run deep.

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