If there are 1000 Marines down there twiddling their thumbs, then that's the fault of the CO. Marines ALWAYS find something to do. Matthew Small
-----Original Message----- From: Dana [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 12:05 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Michael moore letter to bush on New Orleans tragedy there is a 100-bed mobile hospital that nobody has bothered to assign anywhere. There are a thousand marines down there twiddling their thumbs. You think that's good management? On 9/5/05, Michael Dinowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Didn't respond? I see response all over the place. What you meant to say > (I believe) is that they didn't respond fast enough. They didn't move 10's > and 100's of thousands of people and supplies in the time that you (and > others) wanted. > But again, if specific federal agencies that were created to handle these > events did not respond quickly enough, look to those agencies FIRST to blame > before you move up the ranks. FEMA existed before Bush, they hold > responsibility to handle these events and if they were slow, look to them > first. Blame Bush later to your hearts content, but he's not the person > directly responsible. He's secondary or even tertiary. > > >Again, I will say: the evacuation plan, the initial response, etc. > >all city, county, and state responsibilities. We do not disagree > >there. > > > >Where we disagree is when it becomes federal responsibility. I say > >it's when the city, county, and State asks for help. When they say to > >the federal gov't, "We can no longer handle the situation, we need > >federal help." > > > >That's what happened in this case, but the federal gov't didn't > >respond. That is Mr. Bush's fault. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:172718 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
