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To: sinkspur
I'm beginning to turn on this thing. If there is not some visible presence of the Guard and the Military today, and the sky is not filled with helicopters and the ground covered with buses, then one has to conclude that nobody is in charge.

Dude, just chill. The area affected is 90,000 square miles! There aren't enough helicopter or buses in the whole country to cover that much area at one time. I know things aren't happening as quickly as we'd all like, but it's time to be realistic about just how big this job is.

173 posted on 09/02/2005 6:19:42 AM PDT by sola_fide
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To: sola_fide
I know things aren't happening as quickly as we'd all like, but it's time to be realistic about just how big this job is.

Then somebody should be saying that. Half of this effort is perception. And the perception is that nobody knows what the hell they're doing.

There are no explanations, there's no reassurance, there's no detailing of logistics, there's no timetables (other than to say that the 30,000 Guardspeople will be in place THREE DAMNED DAYS from now).

Look, I love this president, but he has two people in charge of the worst single disaster to ever face this country who have ZERO experience with disasters.

Forget Blanco and Nagin. They should be shoved to the side, and somebody who will inspire some confidence should become the face of this response. Chertoff is not it, Brown is not it, and, unfortunately, Bush is not it, so far.

235 posted on 09/02/2005 6:29:12 AM PDT by sinkspur (We who have been given much must help those who now have nothing.)
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