Or exaggerations or mistruths, or whatever. These guys lie so much they can't remember what they said before. This Michael Brown is the very worst.
I also highly question some of the National Guard figures given. This article is from Tuesday of this week.
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/nation/3329522"Baby formula from the Agriculture Department, communications equipment and medical teams from the Defense Department and generators, water and ice from the Federal Emergency Management Agency are among the assistance ready for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
As the Category 4 the storm surged ashore just east of New Orleans today, FEMA had medical teams, rescue squads and groups prepared to supply food and water poised in a semicircle around the city, said agency director Michael Brown."
Speaking from Baton Rouge, just upriver from New Orleans,
Brown told NBC's "Today" show his agency had "planned for this kind of disaster for many years because we've always known about New Orleans' situation." Much of the city is below sea level, making it extremely vulnerable to storm flooding.
The potential damage of such a storm striking New Orleans has long been a worry of federal agencies including the National Weather Service, FEMA and the Environmental Protection Agency, among others.
Didn't Bush say who would have known? Didn't Clinton say there was no way he could have known."The Agriculture Department said it will provide meals and other commodities, such as infant formula, distilled water for babies and emergency food stamps, through its Food and Nutrition Service."
Yeh, what meals, what infant formula....where? "The Defense Department dispatched emergency coordinators to Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi to provide a wide range of assistance including communications equipment, search and rescue operations, medical teams and other emergency supplies."
And Florida was denied a lot of FEMA aid under the new rules, which they make up as they go along.And I always have questioned these National Guard figures which I see here:
"Pentagon spokesman
Lawrence Di Rita said the states have adequate National Guard units to handle the hurricane needs, with at least 60 percent of the guard available in each state. He said about 6,500 National Guard troops were available in Louisiana, about 7,000 troops in Mississippi, nearly 10,000 in Alabama and about 8,200 in Florida." (Can't prove the figures are high, I just quesion it. )
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