Dean: Bush Victimized MS Guard Twice

[Rose Siding]

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/09/president_bush_1.php

Washington, DC - Just one day after the Washington Post reported that 600 Mississippi Guardsmen would not be granted leave to inspect damage to their homes from Hurricane Katrina and despite substantial evidence of an inadequate federal response to the worst natural disaster in American history, President Bush claimed "we've got plenty of troops" - on the ground in Iraq and the Gulf Coast http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CIPOQO4.html>.

The Post reported yesterday that commanders told 600 members of the Mississippi Guard in Iraq that they could not take a 15-day leave to inspect damage to their property and support their families because there are "too few US troops in Iraq to spare them." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001255_pf.html> The Mississippi Guard's 155th Brigade Combat Team is stationed north of Baghdad in the area known as the "Triangle of Death."

Also, Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, head of the National Guard Bureau, said last Friday that the absence of thousands of Mississippi and Louisiana Guard troops currently stationed in Iraq played a role in the failed response to Hurricane Katrina. "Had that brigade been at home and not in Iraq, their expertise and capabilities could have been brought to bear," said Blum. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/09/AR2005090901135_pf.html>

In a statement, Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean said that the citizen-soldiers of the Mississippi Guard have now been victimized twice by the Bush Administration's failure to plan for war in Iraq and for natural disasters here at home.

"The brave men and women serving in Mississippi's 155th Brigade Combat Team are the latest victims of President Bush's failed leadership, both in Iraq and here at home," said Dean. "Because the President failed to provide a plan for victory in Iraq, our forces are stretched so thin that these brave troops can't even get two weeks leave to help their families recover from the worst natural disaster in American history. The Bush Administration has neglected its responsibility to protect the most vulnerable on the Gulf Coast, and that failure is having an even greater impact on the citizen-soldiers currently serving in Iraq. Our men and women in the military, the survivors of Hurricane Katrina and the American people deserve more than business-as-usual from our Commander-in-Chief."

http://www.democrats.org/a/2005/09/president_bush_1.php

[patrice]

1. There should be WPA for local property owners/Katrina Survivors.

and support for rebuilding themselves, with jobs, and help for entrepreneurs, and co-operatives, and co-housing, or even Public Farms, for people who want to work for a living that way. They could have their own private equity in these kinds of ventures, with profit sharing, and co-development of local labor organizations, and maybe even job-skills-teaching guilds, subsidized by tax dollars.

Not that the U.S. has never used such Socialistic devices to respond to Social needs at appropriate times in our country's History, because it has in many different ways, and even catering to rather specialized Social sub-groups, like churches, and War Profiteers, for instance.

Harebo!

[HereSince1628]

2. The US is incapable of protecting citizens from weather let alone terror

A hurricane of category 3 strength isn't unusual at all.

The deployment of the NG to Iraq stripped the gulf states of personnel, resources and experience needed for dealing with this.

There SHOULD have been a back-up plan to provide a response. It seems that if there was it was never implemented.

Does the US feel safer with its National Guard in Iraq? Well, I think N.O.!

[Roland99]

3. Two-bit dictators and standing water defeat America...film at 11

[patrice]

4. What is the color of BuShit?

Brown.

[sandnsea]

5. That's good

When Howard does good, I say so. That's a good and necessary statement. Let me add, the Oregon NG who were sent to the gulf just got back from Iraq around 2 months ago.

[IChing]

6. Bush joined the National Guard to avoid War and then sent the NG to war so

that is really three times