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
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
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.
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