From: Rich Gauszka 

Nice press release. I wonder if Tony Snow typed it? Snow on Tuesday morning
first said "As far as we know, the only thing the governor has
requested are FM radios,"

Later he had to admit that statement was wrong as Kansas had requested
search and rescue, a mobile command center, radios, and extra copters.

I'm Sure Rush will only state Snow's first utterance

Even the guard says they are under equiped. I posted the GAO report pdf
link yesterday

http://www.azstarnet.com/news/181996
"Most of the units in the Army and Air National Guard are
underequipped for the jobs and the missions that they have to perform"
domestically, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard bureau,
told Congress last month. "Can we do the job? Yes, we can. But the
lack of equipment (means it takes) longer to do that job, and lost time
translates into lost lives, and those lost lives are American lives."

Mark wrote:
> http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=33080
> ..."Currently, the Kansas National Guard has 88 percent of its forces
> available, 60 percent of its Army Guard dual-use equipment on hand, and more
> than 85 percent of its Air Guard equipment on hand, said Randal Noller,
> public affairs officer for the National Guard Bureau. Under the Emergency
> Management Assistance Compact, which is a national partnership agreement
> that allows state-to-state assistance during governor or federally declared
> emergencies, Kansas has more than 400,000 Guardsmen available to it, he
> pointed out. However, Kansas has not yet requested assistance from other
> states..."
>
> Has not yet requested..., Hmm, doesn't sound like she's very competent, nor
> very credible.
>
> "John Cuccia"  wrote in message
> news:fvj143pnb15lq4uvfqp6glsemqt7jopep8{at}4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 7 May 2007 23:20:17 -0400, "Mark"
 wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm, because she waited until there was an emergency, then immediately
>>> "blamed Bush," instead of taking preemptive action
on behalf of her
>>> state's
>>> readiness years (as in over 4) ago?
>> The National Guard is trained and equipped by the US Army.  The US
>> Army is short of equipment, hence the National Guard is short of
>> equipment.
>>
>> Given those facts, what preemptive actions should the governor have
>> taken?
>>
>>> Nah, that'll never fly, it's always all "Bush's fault."
>> Since Iraq is indeed Bush's fault, the resultant equipment shortages
>> are also his fault.
>>
>
>

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