Posted on 05/20/2009 1:59:15 PM PDT by balch3
A report on the GQ magazine Web site is quoting unnamed former Bush administration official as blaming former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for many failures, including a delay in military assistance in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
The report says "in speaking with the former Bush officials, it becomes evident that Rumsfeld impaired administration performance on a host of matters extending well beyond Iraq to impact America's relations with other nations, the safety of our troops, and the response to Hurricane Katrina.
The Washington Monthly highlights more of Robert Draper's article in GQ:
"[T]hree years later, when I asked a top White House official how he would characterize Rumsfeld's assistance in the response to Hurricane Katrina, I found out why. "It was commonly known in the West Wing that there was a battle with Rumsfeld regarding this," said the official. "I can't imagine another defense secretary throwing up the kinds of obstacles he did."
Though various military bases had been mobilized into a state of alert well before the advance team's tour, Rumsfeld's aversion to using active-duty troops was evident: "There's no doubt in my mind," says one of Bush's close advisers today, "that Rumsfeld didn't like the concept."
The next day, three days after landfall, word of
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Rumsfeld was familiar with posse comitatus.
I imagine that the obamaemptysuit administration will never be blamed for anything but being Hitler when it is too late.
I thought they couldn’t go in until invited anyway, and whats-her-name procrastinated.
If you get your news from GQ you get what you pay for.
Amendment 10.
The idiot governor of the state, whose party was subsequently CRUSHED in the next gubernatorial election, refused to allow/request federal assistance. Bush's administration, who would've been blamed for "overriding the governor's authority" if they had gone in otherwise, waited for the word.
Yes, because the Bush team abided by the Constitution they are being blamed for the problems exacerbated by the idiot Democrat local authorities.
Remember, in the world of Hussein: down is up and up is down.
GQ, now there’s a hard news magazine...LOL
Those FEMA employees (civil service) will soon be running GM and Chrysler just as efficiently as they were in helping after Katrina.
ALL civil service workers (OK, a little generalization) are simply welfare recipients with a desk and a title.
Whats her name is AKA miss piggy and you’re correct.
Are these the same Bush administration officials who went on to work on John McCain’s campaign?
Still bashing W administration over Katrina? Amazing. I guess it is kinda like a comfort blankie for the lefties...
Don’t these people realize that the military isn’t supposed to be used inside the USA?
Nor should he, that's what the national guard is for. The magnitude of the natural disaster wasn't clear to a lot of people in the administration, and a lot of people in the Louisiana government as well. I'd expect any defense secretary to be reluctant to commit active duty troops given the information he had.
Hopefully Rumsfeld will come out of retirement to join Dick Cheney.
In a related article..Rumsfield is also being blamed for The Great Chicago Fire, the Hindenburg explosion,the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby and, of course, slavery.
No kidding. Thats why we have National Guard, commanded by the state governor. They are still trying to hide the fact that three states were hit, and two of three state governors had their guard mobilized ahead of the storm and on the ground before the wind stopped blowing. The governor of Louisiana wouldn't deploy her Guard because "it wasn't safe".
It was only after Bush federalized it that things got under control. There have been hurricanes before and hurricanes since. Only the one on Governor Blanco's watch turned into a horrorshow nightmare.
Ah it just came back to me-Kathleen Blanco. But I excuse myself for forgetting, she is eminently forgettable.
They had to give up bashing President Bush for Iraq, torture, etc since Hussein’s doing most of the same things.
Now,now,she was sleeping one off during Katrina!
Imagine that.
Rumsfeld was familiar with posse comitatus.
Bears repeating. Whodathunkit? I’m really really getting tired of the MSM doing their best to attack the previous administration just because they were Republican. Hmmm...
could it be that Obama’s disasters currently need a smokescreen?
A failing magazine with declining readership. What, are they down to their last 75 readers and feel a need to be ‘controversial’ to sell a few extra issues?
Screw GQ!
Re#20 LOL. You’re right...
LMAO I confused Blanco with Landrieu=miss piggy.
You didn’t know Looter guy got that job LOL!
It’s all the same thing, female Louisiana rats.
Kentucky's Ice Storm Worse in Aftermath
0bama dozed, Kentucky froze!
Not a peep from the MSM as he partied on Superbowl weekend eating $100 a pound steaks.
No, their model for what the military ought to be is the Chinese Red Army.
You know good and darn well if the Military had been used in full force, leftists would be screaming their heads off about “attrocities” commited by Bushitler’s gestapo or something stupid like that. What is it about reality these people don’t understand?
You are right, along with several other Freepers. The Founding fathers are the ones who didn't like the concept. The utter ignorance of the MSM continues to amaze me more than I thought possible.
I’m sorry, I missed this at first. This appeared in GQ? Isn’t that a magazine that caters to fags and metrosexuals, and dwells upon such significant issues as this season’s preferred trouser fabric? That GQ?
Why on earth would any of us give a rat’s patoot about what GQ’s editors believe is an appropriate political opinion?
Isn’t GQ a men’s fashion magazine?
FWIW, Michael “Hellava job” Brown is coming out with a book soon claiming that he suggested that people be airlifted out of the New Orleans. He said that TSA said no. Brown said he then went to the Pentagon, where he was granted permission to station Marines on board on the flights. This was still denied by TSA.
Rummy is coming out with a book next year, I think.
I wish I had been there to see the look on their face.
What’s the delay now, in these slugs and slackers getting to ‘h’ out of the government trailers? They’ve been feeding at the ‘chocolate’ trough too long and it’s time to ween that bunch of losers.
GQ and the Times-Picayune are "Still Stuck On Stupid".
I gotta have a ceegar so I can think about this sheet.
I am no fan of Donald Rumsfeld, as a search of my posting on this forum will confirm. But, I don’t think that this one can be laid at his doorstep.
When I arrived in Hattisburg, MS 5 days after Katrina, the JTF over at Camp Shelby was in disarray and was just trying to figure out how to bed everyone down and get chow. The 82d Abn Div Aviation Bde Cdr was trying to control his brigade and coordinate air support from the NO executive airport lounge on his cell phone. I found Russ Honore at the Superdome with a two-man IMARSAT team trying to bring some order to ongoing events. We had plenty of time to chat because his comms where pretty minimal.
But, my assessment was that this state of affairs was due almost exclusively to Governor Blanco’s refusal to let federal troops in early and to assume command and control for the military support to civilian authority. The military knows how to do this and can work miracles in short order, but they have to get permission from the Governor first. That was not forthcoming. In my view, that was deliberate and thought out long before Katrina showed up. Blanco was the only Democrat Governor along the entire Gulf and Southern reach of the Atlantic coast. Republican Governors would swing into action, as did Governor Barbour of Mississippi making a scheme to blame Bush problematic. But, in Louisiana, there was a chance for political sabatoge and that’s what Blanco did. Shepard Smith and the rest of the media idiots gleefully played their parts in this little drama. Perhaps someone who really knows what went on will someday tell the whole story.
That’s why I think that as long as there is still a MSM setting the headlines and the perceptions, it’s too soon to talk about “dinosaur media”. If they ever admit that they’re going down, they’ll take down America with them.
Love it!
President Bush was disqualified from the competition after that picture was made public of him wearing shorts, socks, and a pair of Crocs.
Yeah that one, who with her crying jag on television looked like a neurotic hysterical female having PMS.
I appreciate your insight. You might be right, but there is a more parsimonious answer: She was completely incompetent!
What little I know of that man, I like.
That would be news to General Sherman and a host of others. Including MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, and Washington. There is absolutely nothing in Constitution to prevent it. Washington, who surely knew not only what was in the Constitution, but what it meant, led federal troops, and federalized militia, in numbers rivaling the size of the entire Continental Army during the late Revolution, to put down the Whiskey Rebellion. Directly under Washington were Alexander Hamilton and "Light Horse Harry" Lee.
Later Marines and soldiers, under the leadership of then Colonel Robert E. Lee, were used against John Brown and his band of abolitionists at Harper's Ferry Virginia (Now West Virgina).
The MSM and the rats know this, lying to suit their purpose is no sin to them.
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