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Originally Posted by bradclark1
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Five days before it's (second) landfall hurricane Katrina was northwest of Cuba and could have hit anywhere along the gulf from florida to mexico and at the time had sustained winds of only 45 to 60 knots.
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Okay make it two. CONUS(Continental United States) Army are on alert call status within 24 hours or was, it's probably even shorter nowadays. Now thats heavy forces. Thats not your light forces like the 82nd Airborne etc. that are 8 hours if I remember correctly and thats not the ready brigade which is even shorter. Unless things have changed a hell of a lot.
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Now I know you're anti Bush and like Skybird will say just about anything to badmouth him
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If I would say anything to badmouth him I would have called New Orleans a black and white issue so thats irrelevent.
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but he didn't install (to use your word) the NO mayor or Louisiana Governor nor should he be blamed for their failings.
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I'm not blaming him for their failings. I'm blaming him for the failings of the federal goverment. Your reasoning is that until the govenor calls for federal aid the goverment should sit on it's butt. I don't think so. Thats not even an excuse. I'll say this again. These various agencies to include Homeland Security and the military are paid a lot of money to do their jobs. Part of that is to think ahead, to plan, coordinate, and delegate. To be preemptive not reactive. Case in point is the prior planning given to Rita.
Maybe it's my military background and knowledge of operations that to me makes what should have happened plain as day. I don't know. But I expect more than knee jerk reactions. |
My knowledge of U.S. constitutional law is not really up to date and I might be wrong, but I think the Govenor is responsable for all emergency matters within the state and the Federal Government has no authority to operate National Guard units in states if not requested by the Govenor.
While Pres. Bush took full political responsability, you can hardly blame him for policy blunders made by the Mayor and the Govenor...
Things went wrong in the first phase of the disaster. That's exactly the period that the real decisions are made by the local and state goverment.