Everyone knows people and equipment, including those of the National Guard, that would normally be in the US are in Iraq. This is the biggest non-story since the US Attorney firings. Yes, capacity is diminished, yes, that makes it harder to deal with multiple simultaneous emergencies. If those were the only considerations involved, figuring out what to do would be a no-brainer. But there is the small matter of not allowing the Middle East to descend into regional war to be factored into the deliberations. Unless everyone wants to risk a global economic meltdown brought on by a regional conflict that causes oil output in the region to drop dramatically.
At least those farmers in Kansas would be able to re-build if there were a second simultaneous disaster. I'm glad the Democrats want to fund potential future problems and don't want to fund actual current problems. That makes a lot of sense. On 5/10/07, Gruss wrote: > > > Dana wrote: > > trouble if anything more happened. And yes, I believe he said 40%. > > Which is what the Governor said too, but there's WMD in Iraq, Iraq and > Al Quaeda are one, and Brownie is doin' a heckava job. > -- --------------- Robert Munn www.funkymojo.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:234492 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
