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To: I_C_Deadpeople who wrote (18088)	9/8/2005 4:54:16 PM
From: loantech	Respond to of 18308

It is a tragedy all the way around. Lot's of people dropped the ball on both sides of the aisle but the fish rots from the head down.http://www.nystocktrader.com/BushVaca.jpg May have started with the appointment of Brown. Also NO voted demo so there is no way they would have gotten levee funds from Repugs. I wonder if the water systems have been rebuilt in Iraq already. Electricity? Sewer? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm nice democracy. Mission Accomplished there and here.

To: I_C_Deadpeople who wrote (18088)	9/9/2005 5:18:04 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 18308

Nobody has said much about Blanco (sp?), but much of the onus was on her to take action with the guard, and co-ordinate, and ask for Federal posse comitatus(1874 army limit law) suspension, and seek Federal aid from emergency acts. She was supposed to enact the emergency measures status, declare martial law, and send the guard in with appropriate equipment to rescue trapped people. She was also the one with the responsibility to ask for Federal help and get co-ordination between Federal workers, State Guard units, Red Cross, and Federal troops. It had to be under central command on site. Granted FEMA did not appreciate the urgency, thinking stranded people were simply inconvenienced, rather than sinking fast, i.e. dying. But Blanco should have had hourly reports on her desk, with heli recon getting the situation apprised and action taken appropriate to reports. A lot of the blame lies at her feet. At times like these, it behooves the president's office to send the fed soldiers in by act in council as they did in the Texas oilfields way back when. It was up to them to call and ask to asked for help and direct the governor's office what to do to get it. This procedure skips the normal way it happens in the Feds waiting for the city and state to ask them. Blanco did a lot of assumption showing legally and in other ways she was incompetent. I see where they were going with the shoot to kill order, but obviously in practice except where fire was evident the order was directed at the population, not the soldiers. On the other hand that cannot be revealed. They had to show teeth in order to get co-operation. And of course every once in a while the dog has to bite. EC<:-}