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

On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 20:29:40 +0000, Fred Bloggs wrote:

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> Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:
>> Fred Bloggs wrote:
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>>> Richard Henry wrote:
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>>>> "Fred Bloggs" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>> news:431C6BFC.1040506@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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>>>>> Dirk Bruere at Neopax wrote:
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>>>>>> Fred Bloggs wrote:
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>>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> In Britain we have an airmobile brigade that can be deployed
>>>>>> anywhere in
>>>>>> the world in 24hrs.
>>>>>> The US military not up to that?
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>>>>> That's the Pentagon's call- go ask Rumsfeld.
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>>>> You have to fight this with what you have, not what you want.
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>>> Active duty forces in Texas are pretty much tapped out with Iraq, and
>>> one of the major functions of the National Guard during wartime is to
>>> provide combat engineers, so that their units most useful for a
>>> situation like this, what with portable bridges, water treatment,
>>> heavy construction equipment, transport, and capability for quickly
>>> erecting large shelters and roadways, were tapped too.
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>> So the US has been doubly screwed by Bush.
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> No- not at all- it will be a boon to the private contractors- they do
> not need to be combat ready- and there are plenty of resources in the area.

Exactly. ...though the Europeons and other lefties will cry "Haliburton".

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Keith

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