From: Nigel Hay MILWEB (nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 01:01:28 PDT
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Subject: Re: [MV] Battle of New Orleans - 2005 = Pearl Harbour ver 2
Nigel
You may have to post this to mil-veh as it doesn't want to accept
my postings (I have one of those receive only subscriptions it would
seem).
> I have seen the news reports from UK, US and French TV. Its obviously a
> fiasco. Unbelievable.
Blind Freddy could have predicted that a low lying city like New Orleans
was going to have a total breadk down in services once it was flooded by
a storm of that severity. So why didn't the Bush administration have
everybody including the NG and military on alert and ready to roll?
Stupidity personified being paid wages in the x $100,000 per year to
fiddle while New Orleans burns? Seems like they don't read their history
books, or for that matter watch TV and see what happened with the
Tsunami in Asia.
> What I cannot understand is why the vast resources of the US Military
have
> not been rushed to the area ? What is the point of having a national
guard
> and the biggest army in the world if its not used?
Stupidity by those in command?
> The American red cross can get there - why not the military? or are they
> waiting for an international rescue effort?
According to what we saw on TV, the military choppers were recalled after
being
shot at. Sheeesze....... how about plopping something in the
gun mounts and shooting back? Or what about Apaches etc to act as cover?
Sorry, it just seems so basic.
> It seems curious that vast amounts of troops and over 60 helicopters were
> sent 6,000 miles away to Normandy last June to protect Bush for a day trip
> to Omaha beach , so why cant a proportionate effort be made on home soil?
Because there are no VIPs in possible peril.
> Our groups correspondent in his M35 may find himself a lone rescuer at
this
> rate.....
I hope he has a flak jacket.
> Whilst people have pointed out that many locals didn't obey the requests
to
> leave, consider this - they may simply not have had the means to leave.
> They may not have cars as many are very poor underprivileged citizens.
EXACTLY!
> The words "rapid" and "disaster management" don't apply. In the USA
> certainly.
Well, it is going to go down in history as yet another Bush
administration stuff up that is for sure.
4 days and they still don't have amphibious units on the beach?
What about airlifting in MASH units?
The incompetence is staggering.
Regards
Doug
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