From: Rich Gauszka 

Typical neo-con response. It the Governor's fault that the Kansas National
Guard has had their heavy equipment sent to Iraq for Bush's folly and can't
respond to a national emergency?



Mark wrote:
> 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
> news:463fbf21{at}w3.nls.net...
>> 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
news:463fbb1a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> 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 in message
>>> 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=100
3581816
>>>>
>>>> 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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