Pentagon Coordinating Katrina Response

[DoYouEverWonder]

August 31, 2005

WASHINGTON - An additional 10,000 National Guard troops from across the country began pouring into the Gulf Coast on Wednesday, adding new soldiers and airmen to shore up security, rescue and relief operations in the region ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.

The new units brought the number of troops dedicated to the effort to more than 28,000, in what may be the largest military response to a natural disaster.

Fully one-third of the 21,000 National Guard troops descending on the Gulf Coast from across the country will be used for security, to prevent looting, enforce curfews and enhance local law and order, said Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, commander of National Guard forces.

In a massive response that was still unfolding Wednesday, the
Pentagon was sending a broad contingent of ships, aircraft, trucks, medical support and other personnel to support federal agencies already providing aid to the Gulf Coast states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

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So Rummie is running the country now? What happened to Homeland Security?

[SmokingJacket]

1. Homeland Security is nothing but a stack of letterhead with the

Homeland Security logo on it.

What a crock.

[Atman]

2. Prevent looting? A week later? What is this, Baghdad?

Hey, thanks guys! Come in and stop the looters before the remove the tiles from the Wal Mart floors! Or steal the sidewalks! WTF -- why does America put up with this lying sack of an administration? Every teevee station now is falling all over itself in praise of Lord God Bush...you'd think he'd actually done something besides set aside all the pesky restrictions on his business buddies.

[sasha031]

3. what a relief

the Pentagon is going to be involved...:spank:

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. This is the part that bothers me.

"Fully one-third of the 21,000 National Guard troops descending on the Gulf Coast from across the country will be used for security, to prevent looting, enforce curfews and enhance local law and order, said Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, commander of National Guard forces."



This is just what we need, a military responses to a natural disaster, not.

[VegasWolf]

9. Just what New Orleans needs, "military intelligence" working

on the job!

[Rose Siding]

5. Remember his last response to looting?

Hey, freedom's messy!

It's the same guy taking the same vase, filmed over and over!

[muwriter]

6. Should read "Pentagon Doing Bad Job of Coordinating Katrina Response."

This thing was aimed at NO and Mississippi for two days before it hit.

[DoYouEverWonder]

7. You noticed that too?

Welcome to DU :hi:

[leesa]

8. Well, that explains it all. How much will Halliburton make?

[Ms. Clio]

10. Well, now they're really fucked n/t