Posted on 09/10/2005 7:19:00 AM PDT by MNJohnnie
Dinasour Media bias in action, here is how the story was posted yesterday by AP. Notice how AP edited out the actual QUOTES that DIRECTLY contradicted their spin lie and had the writer write the story interjected their own interpretation of what was said by the sources. Here is yesterdays AP story.
Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said that "arguably" a day or so of response time was lost due to the absence of the Mississippi National Guard's 155th Infantry Brigade and Louisiana's 256th Infantry Brigade, each with thousands of troops in Iraq. Blum said that to replace those units' command and control equipment, he dispatched personnel from Guard division headquarters from Kansas and Minnesota shortly after the storm struck. Rep. Gene Taylor, D-Miss., whose waterfront home here was washed away in the storm, told reporters that the absence of the deployed Mississippi Guard units made it harder for local officials to coordinate their initial response. "What you lost was a lot of local knowledge," Taylor said, as well as equipment that could have been used in recovery operations.
"The best equipment went with them, for obvious reasons," especially communications equipment, he added. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said this week that the Pentagon has the ability to cope with both Katrina and the Iraq war, saying, "We can and will do both." Blum said that overall, the Iraq mission for Guard units across the nation is not limiting the military's ability to expand and continue the rescue and recovery operations in storm-battered states. "Iraq and other overseas commitments do not inhibit our ability to sustain this effort here
No the National Guard, when under state control, has the ability to act, but of course by definition they need orders from their CinC, in that case the governor of the state.
Probably true. But the way it is, when they are training, the federal DoD picks up the tab, as it does when they are federalized, such as for overseas deployment. However when they are operating on state orders, they either get paid by the state, or from a different (i.e. FEMA) budget bucket at the federal level.
My point is, why train them to be federalized if they can't be used? If the states are going to complain every time they are out of country, then the states should pick up the whole thing. BTW, I believe the federal government basically equips them. If we can't use them, if they can only be used by the states, then let the states pay AND equip them.
"Boot to the ass for this." There was an entire thread devoted to it, opinions varied from "they were heroes that did what needed to be done' to 'they disobeyed orders and paid the price'. I took the second stance, not a Lt's call to make.
It was Bill Clinton's 1993 Reduction in Forces Act that made the Reserve/Guard an integral part of the ready armed forces.
After gutting the military by 40% the Clintonistas argued that the Reserve/Guard would fill the g
THANK YOU! I had forgotten that! That is the other fraud in this article. AP states it was "in the last few years" it was ACTUALLY in 1993.
I will look it up. Thanks for the heads up.
Nail them....
We will just agree to disagree. There is a time to command and a time to look the other way. Chew ass? Yeah. Punishment? NO. However, I should also admit to myself that my initial reaction might be different if I knew all the facts. So to quote AL Gore when he was asked by a Reporter here in Minneapolis to comment on the news about Grand Jury indictments involving Clinton's 1996 Campaign fund rasing "I will have to go inform myself"
"Professor" means that you hold an academic position in an academic field of study, usually with tenure and a doctorate degree. One is more likely an "Assistant Professor" for a number of years before one attains the title of "Professor". Mr. Brown was a graduate student, and thus likely held the title of "Graduate Assistant". He might have taught a class or two. Does this make him a professor? No.
I'll grant you that the truth needs to be win the day.
Resume enhancement, however, is not acceptable.
"you want to ignore the check on despotism that our system of government is designed to provide?
- why did they let the military helos do rescue and not ground rescue.
- don't look now but they are taking all the guns while you proclaim legal propriety
"That was the coast guard helos"
No- check the katrina live tread for pics of Marine, Navy , an Army helos doing rooftop rescue.
Good catch.
The sooner these dinosaurs of the dying socialist "mainstream" newsrooms die completely dead, the sooner America can recover from the decadence and mediocrity that forty years of Democrat liberalism brought.
BS. Approximately 70 % of the Louisiana NG is still in the states!
"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds can not be free"
I never did trust anyone that didn't drink.
And I have never denied the culpability of the local and state govt.
You are the one that demands we genuflect to the infallability of the FEMA .
"I appreciate the fact that you have no loyalty or alliance with the US Constitution, but the rest of us do."
Nice legalese but tell us now if the helo rescues by the military -from day one- were done w or w/o your prized "permission".
"Army, navy, and Marine choppers can be flown by NG troops under certain circumstances, but army, navy, and marine personnel cannot be called into action without express permission of the state's governor."
Have you told that to the Marines?
But irregardless of your hypotheticals, it is apparent that Marine, AF,Army , and Navy pilots conducted thousands of rescue missions and think twice before denying their valor.
http://www.dailyrepublic.com/articles/2005/09/09/top_stories/news02.txt
Fire Brown.
I don't like doing it, but when somebody fails to turn this national disaster into a help for the president and instead cause him to lose points....where he is now BELOW 40 PERCENT APPROVAL......he needs to be canned.
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