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To: bvw
I am reading Rumsfeld's book, which is very interesting but slow going, as it is full of detail.

So I just looked forward to see what comments he would have made about Katrina.

Very interesting! A chapter is devoted to it, which starts with a quote:

"A lie will go around the world while the truth is pulling its boots on."

and then the first paragraph reads:

Tropical storm Katrina intensified to a category 5 hurricane on August 28, 2005, while it was still several hundred miles out in the Gulf of Mexico. Expecting landfall in the next 48 hours, the new NORTHCOM commander, Admiral Tim Keating, began issuing orders and alerts to military units across the United States. He deployed an advance headquarters to Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and created a staging area for FEMA at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana. The Department of Defense activated a hurricane operations cell in the Pentagon to monitor developments. Search-and-rescue aircrews were alerted that they might soon be needed. Navy ships with relief capabilities were ordered to proceed to the area.

(my underlining)

1,899 posted on 08/27/2011 9:33:38 PM PDT by maica ( Multiculturalism is the smiley face of totalitarianism.)
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To: maica

I still think JR should publish the Katrina threads as a book.


1,911 posted on 08/27/2011 9:40:55 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade, There are only two sides. Pick one.)
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To: maica

“A lie will go around the world while the truth is pulling its boots on.”

Amen!!!


1,946 posted on 08/27/2011 10:08:35 PM PDT by Freedom56v2 ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, wait till it is free"--PJ O'rourke)
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To: maica

The same thing on a less well remembered scale happened with the Bush era response to the Indian Ocean Tsunami. We responded fast and large, and yet the slanderous and groupthinky vile liberal media claimed we were late and did less than others. They looked at promises of help, most of which failed to ever materialize. We actually rushed in to help immediately yet made few promises. Our carrier group was the first major relief on the scene.


1,954 posted on 08/27/2011 10:12:37 PM PDT by bvw
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