From: "Mark" 

Yes, it's good that Tony is back, isn't it? 

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in
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> 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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