From: "Robert G Lewis" 

No Mark the Bottom line is the equipment is not there. It has not been
replaced and there don't seem to be any plans to do so. It's affecting
every state.  Stating the equipment isn't there and where it is, is simply
stating a fact.  Not replacing equipment has been known for several years.
Its a problem that will have to be addressed.

You are the one interpreting this as an attack on Bush. I didn't read the
story that way

So far the only person I've seen use this to for a cheap political shot is
you. I don't see any cheap shots in the stories posted.  But you certainly
seem to have been very willing to use the death and destruction for a cheap
shot.

her comments ( those I have seen) don't even come close to your ridicule
for being crass and uncaring.

"Mark"  wrote in message
news:463fc627$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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 >> in 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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