"I need everything you have got," Governor Blanco said she told Mr. Bush last Tuesday, when New Orleans flooded. In an interview, she acknowledged that she did not specify what sorts of soldiers. "Nobody told me that I had to request that. I thought that I had requested everything they had," she said. "We were living in a war zone by then."NYTimes is amazing. "illustrated her stance?" Absolutely not, it disproves the earlier comment she was ignorant of the laws.The governor illustrated her stance when, overnight Friday, she rejected a more modest proposal for a hybrid command structure in which both the Guard and active-duty troops would be under the command of an active-duty, three-star general - but only after he had been sworn into the Louisiana Guard.
"Illustrated" - The article becomes a puff piece for her.
Where was the Louisiana Nat'l Guard?
Hard at work.
This afternoon C-SPAN 3 broadcast an extensive Louisiana National Guard press briefing with follow-up questions.
Their version of events and assessment of their performance, while admitting shortfalls, is quite different from what we're reading and posting here.
Much time and political posturing will pass before the truth, whatever it is, comes into the light of day.
Safe to say, much of the work of the MSM has rendered us punch drunk with confusion and contradiction.
They won't be able to tell you, because of the gag order Blanco imposed on them.
She has MUCH to hide... and her handlers have even more.