From: "Mark" 

Why is the Governor of Kansas dissing Bush in the face of a terrible
disaster? The National Guard is there, FEMA is there, the Red Cross is
there, the neighboring towns EMS are there, the police are there...

The entire town has been wiped out -- *all* of it -- it's going to be years
before it's made right again, regardless of how many National Guard
bulldozers are there tomorrow, the next day, or the next week.

In fact they were interviewing a John Deere dealer owner, he's going to
keep all 35 employees on the payroll (via his insurance it sounds like) and
I'd bet my bottom dollar that John Deere will be donating equipment for use
in the clean up -- what the fuck ever happened to taking care of yourselves
vs. the whine fest?

Why doesn't the governor leave her lame politics out of it? Why, suddenly
does every politician in the country suddenly seem to stand frozen in the
headlights like a soon to be dead deer, demanding that the Feds drop
everything and save them? The people there, the real sufferers, were not
whining, they were planning on how to overcome and rebuild before the winds
died down.

The valid point is this Bob: because the Iraq war is currently unpopular in
national polls, the governor chooses a disaster for her citizens to get a
cheap shot in at their expense -- a really dumb cheap shot, because odds
are most of those Kansans in that wiped out town support our troops and
their National Guard members over there.

That said if the Iraq war was popular in the national polls she'd never
have made such a dumb statement -- though it's still crass regardless.



"Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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> And a Republican once again makes fun of death and destruction instead of
> raising ANY valid points.
>
> Why are the National Guard and Reserve units short on equipment ? Why have
> the Republicans failed to replaced damaged and destroyed equipment ?
>
>
> "Mark"  wrote in message
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>> Meanwhile that Chimp Bush is attending a white tie dinner with a
>> ceremonial head of state -- why doesn't he cancel that dinner and fly on
>> out to Kansas immediately? These f'ing neocons don't care about Joe and
>> Jane Citizen, let them eat wood chips > Iraq and bring that equipment home tomorrow -- call up the C130s right
>> now!!!>
>>
>> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote
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>> news:463faaeb$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Can't help victims if yiur equipment is in Iraq
>>>
>>>
http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003
581816
>>>
>>> Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius said Sunday evening that the state's
>>> response will likely be hampered because much of the equipment usually
>>> positioned around the state to respond to emergencies - including tents,
>>> trucks and semitrailers - is now in Iraq.
>>>
>>> "Not having the National Guard equipment, which used to
be positioned in
>>> various parts of the state, to bring in immediately is really going to
>>> handicap this effort to rebuild," said Sebelius.
>>>
>>> http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=6481093&nav=menu188_2
>>>
>>> The problem exists nationwide, according to a Government Accountability
>>> Report from January.  It said the "National Guard may not
be prepared to
>>> respond to domestic events, particularly large-scale, multi-state
>>> events...as efficiently and effectively as possible."
>>
>>
>
>

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