ON YAHOO: Congress Likely to Probe Guard Response VOTE IT UP!

[BigBearJohn]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/katrina_national_guard&printer=1

Another 10,000 National Guard troops are being sent to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast, raising their number to about 40,000, but questions linger about the speed with which troops were deployed.

Several states ready and willing to send National Guard troops to the rescue in New Orleans didn't get the go-ahead until days after the storm struck — a delay nearly certain to be investigated by Congress.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state's National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn't come from Washington until late Thursday.

California troops just began arriving in Louisiana on Friday, three days after flood waters devastated New Orleans and chaos broke out.

EDITED TO ADD THIS:
VOTE HERE: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/katrina_national_guard

[blonndee]

1. Done. Vote it up and email it. nt

[mattclearing]

2. Not seeing the rating stars at the bottom of this. n/t

[BigBearJohn]

3. I just added the link.

[OhioChick]

4. Done n/t

[longship]

5. Done.

Recommended.
:kick:

[BigBearJohn]

6. .

[TankLV]

7. Is this the one that LIEberman is heading with his fellow repuke?

And at a CLOSED DOOR session?

If that's what this is about, then it's all bullshit.

LIEberman is part of the problem, not part of the solution.

Heaven help us all if this is the only "investigation".

[NYC]

8. Current rating is 4 stars with 590 votes.

[LSK]

9. note this at the bottom of the story:

"Bush had the legal authority to order the National Guard to the disaster area himself, as he did after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks ."