cnn now saying sandbags on copters diverted. well un divert them.

[dogindia]

watch to f.... up. somebody call the WH. Somebody call somebody.

How could they be so disfunctional.

[fooj]

1. Not part of their "gameplan"...they are busy focusing

on what fucking country they are going to bomb next!:grr:

Peace.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. There are many NG choppers in Iraq I am sure.

There is definitely a shortage in LA.

[rodeodance]

8. what game plan??????????

[tk2kewl]

2. they don't have enough resources because they're all in iraq

it's a tough call, try to get the people out before the flooding gets worse or try to stop the flooding to buy time for rescues. catch 22

[Pirate Smile]

3. I guess we don't have enough helicopters to do both rescue missions and

other Army Corp. work. Hmmm, I wonder why?

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. Priorities, priorities.... now watch this drive. nt.

[Javaman]

6. Well, rumspuke said we can fight a two front war...

Here is the equivelent of a war without weapons. Go ahead dickhead rumspuke, prove us wrong. asshole.

colossal failure*.

[Pirate Smile]

7. Here is an article re NG and helicopters not LA, but it makes the point.

"Montana in a tug of war for Guardsmen
Deployments in Iraq mean fewer firefighters

By Alan Wirzbicki, Globe Correspondent | June 5, 2005

HELENA, Mont. -- When summer wildfires burn out of control in the vast forests of the Rocky Mountains, the Montana National Guard has always been available to act as a fire force of last resort, sending its soldiers deep into the wilderness to help fire crews, protect evacuated property, and transport supplies to the front lines.

But as fire season approaches this year, the Montana Guard faces what its commander describes as an ''unprecedented" shortage of firefighters and helicopters, prompting the state's governor, Democrat Brian Schweitzer, to ask the Pentagon to return more of the state's troops from Iraq this summer for what he fears could be a particularly dangerous fire season.

-snip-
The Pentagon has refused his request. And while state and federal forest officials in Montana say they are confident they can work around the shortage of Guard personnel and absence of 10 out of 12 of the Guard's Black Hawk helicopters, Schweitzer tapped a sense of anxiety among governors whose troops are fighting the insurgency in Iraq with no end in sight.

''Many governors look to the National Guard as their contingency force, be it a hurricane or snow or fires out West," said John Goheen, communications director of the National Guard Association of the United States.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/05/montana_in_a_tug_of_war_for_guardsmen/

[rodeodance]

9. they should park themselves on his lawn till they get their copters back;