general said: "put those guns down and help those people?"

[wellstone_democrat]

I just heard this from my husband who said a general arrived in NO and told Nat Guardsmen with weapons drawn to put the guns down and help people? Is this right? He only saw the end of a clip on some station (he didn't say before he left--happier than I've seen him in days)

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. yes i saw it...

he is a three star from the NO area. he was yelling at the LA state police who were in a battle posture

[NWHarkness]

2. Gen. Honore

Yes, I saw it on CNN.

[Art_from_Ark]

5. Way to go, General Honore!

:toast:

[rodeodance]

7. Barb. Starr was repeating it over and over yesterday. Glad the

message got out--This is NOT IRaG, the GEN kept saying.

[Libby2]

Yes he did

but he didn't mean literally.
He meant stop aiming the damned guns.

[tjdee]

3. I know he got a woman help on the spot....

She had twin babies, and he stopped what he was doing and got them some help immediately.

His name is General Russell Honore....if that's who your husband saw, it sounds consistent with the little I've heard about this guy.

[DoYouEverWonder]

4. About time some took charge and has their priorities straight

Too bad Bush didn't send him in at the beginning of the week.

[tjdee]

6. He was too busy eating cake and playing guitar!

Sheesh! He has to live a balanced life, you know!

[CottonBear]

8. Correct: 3 star Gen. Russell Honore is the "John Wayne dude" Mayor Nagin

praised during his radio rant the other day. Honore told the Nat'l Guard troops to put down the guns they were pointing at the citizens on the streets. The citizens clapped and cheered Gen. Honore. I saw this onTV.

Gen. Honore is a native of LA.

[Kni7es]

9. Bravo.

We need more officers like that in our military, and his actions should go on record as an example of conduct with such disasters.

An effective fighting force can be maintained in the United States without breeding a horde of ruthless killers.

[1932]

10. When the US occupied Cuba, there was one American general who said

that what the US was doing in Cuba was wrong. He said that with a little money he could use the army to help build infrastructure and alleviate the poverty and the country would be much better off.

Nobody listened to him. Instead, the army was used to bring comfort to the wealthy -- to protect the property interests of large landholders and rich people in the city -- to preserve the vast differences in power so that people could make money off of exploiting the poor.

That describes New Orleasn and Iraq.

Honore, like that one guy in Cuba, is the exception to Bush's zero tollerance/protect property rights right wing bullshit.

Richard Gott writes about this in his book Cuba: A New History.