There Are No Words...

[Nickatilynx]

Originally Posted by JR

i was really struck by the logic of pulling national guard troops "because its too dangerous" as that seems to imply that as time progressed and the situation continued to erode, it would become somehow, less dangerous.

So, Iraq is not too dangerous to send troops into?

[JR]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

So, Iraq is not too dangerous to send troops into?

i am not sure what you mean. i meant that it seemed a little odd to use the rationale that NO is too dangerous to help people when the situation is obviously deteriorating by the second.... i.e., not giving people food, water, medical care etc is not a formula to make it more stable and less dangerous.

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by JR

i am not sure what you mean. i meant that it seemed a little odd to use the rationale that NO is too dangerous to help people when the situation is obviously deteriorating by the second.... i.e., not giving people food, water, medical care etc is not a formula to make it more stable and less dangerous.

JR, some fucktard (not sure who, but definitely not a military guy, either a pol or a bureaucrat) said somewhere in the press that they were holding back the Reserve in Baton Rouge (at the time) because he said "it was too dangerous to send them in".

This was a few days ago when they had 4,000 amassed there and no was sending them in yet, and that was allegedly the (cough, choke, spew) "rationale" behind it.

Wish I could find that damned article, but read too many over the past week to recall where I'd read it.

[Dravyk]

Though tons of places to put blame ... Here's some more from the White House's part in this ...

"Bush had the legal authority to order the National Guard to the disaster area himself, as he did after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks . But the troops four years ago were deployed for national security protection, and presidents of both parties traditionally defer to governors to deploy their own National Guardsmen and request help from other states when it comes to natural disasters."

and

"In addition to Guard help, the federal government could have activated, but did not, a major air support plan under a pre-existing contract with airlines. The program, called Civilian Reserve Air Fleet, lets the government quickly put private cargo and passenger planes into service. The CRAF provision has been activated twice, once for the Persian Gulf War and again for the Iraq war."