True Lies

 

1. Some day the book on the truth about Katrina will be written, and this Kansas situation will be a detailed footnote on the lies versus the truth about these disasters and how our government works. The Federal government MAY NOT, as in has no legal right to, move into a state without the permission or direct request of a state’s governor except in very narrow circumstances such as invasion or rebillion. Natural disasters do not count.

   Obviously Gov. Sebelius is as clueless about the imnportant stuff as was La. Gov. Blanco was and as quick to duck responsibility.

   Posted by Rickvid in Seattle       05/09/2007  at  12:08 AM  



2. It seems the Commander-in-Chief of the Kansas National Guard isn’t capable of managing her recourses.  Although tragic, this is one small town with not that many people.  How much equipment does she and Obama believe they need to move in there?  Being Kansas, I can bet you that long before the first guardsman showed up, private citizens with all forms of heavy equipment were on the scene.  Why, some of the first TV video showed the streets already plowed of the derbies and I can assure you the tornado didn’t do it.  This is just another way for Demorats to blame Bush.

   Posted by BobF       05/09/2007  at  06:38 AM  



3. I served in the Texas Army National Guard for 24 years. We NEVER had a complete allocation of equipment.  Many of our vehicles were castoffs from the regular forces that required massive maintenance upon receipt.

   Monthly Unit Status Reports manipulated the maintenance ready status to always appear better than the reality.  We were always short of repair parts and major components (tank engines, transmissions for self-propelled howitzers, etc) were always short.

   The attitude was that we wouyld receive 100% of repair parts upon mobilization.

   Now, most of our equipment is left in Iraq and National guard units return to the states with what they can carry.  The state Governors no longer have a military asset with which deal with natural or civil emergencies.

   The facts are starting to appear.

   Posted by MAJ Mike       05/09/2007  at  08:03 AM  



4. As with katrina, most of the work and little of the photo ops will be done by volunteers. Our retard governor is making an ass out of herself. If she really wanted to look good, she would get the troops and equipment in and then brag about accomplishing so much with so little. I can drive by our local armory any time. the lot is full of heavy equipment transporters. They are still there.....

   Posted by Jeremy       05/09/2007  at  08:33 AM  



5. And what do you suppose the chances are that the Lame Stream will call the Gubner on this?

   Posted by ibm       05/09/2007  at  09:11 AM  



6. As usual, the donks “never let the facts stand in the way of a good sound bite”.

   Posted by coop       05/09/2007  at  09:40 AM  



7. The National Guard equipment shortages are a bi-partisian result.  Both the Party of Treason and the Stupid Party share the blame. 

   No one wants to admit that there was a problem prior to mobilization and that there’s a problem now.  Additionally, no one wants to spend the money to equip the units.

   Rather than support earmarks and pork-barrel spending, why not fully fund a 100% TOE (Table of Organization) for our Reserve and National Guard units?

   I repeat.  State governors do not have the military assets to deal with emergencies—both natural and civil.

   Posted by MAJ Mike       05/09/2007  at  02:21 PM  



8. Tell me Maj Mike just how many tanks and self-propelled howitzers do you think they need to clean up Greensburg Ks? I know their all G*d_damned dirty stinking redlegs. But it would seem to me a couple small engineer units with water pureifcation trucks and mabe a dozen MP’t to control out of town traffic, is about all they should need from the Governor. Most of these folks are going to have homeowners insurance, and the few who don’t or have too little don’t need tanks they or invasion by heavy infanty. Low cost loans and tax breaks while they rebuild would make more sense to me. West-central Kanses is not the Lower Ninth Ward.

   Posted by navydave       05/10/2007  at  12:21 AM  



9. Is there no tragedy that the Dems will not exploit???

   What really gets me is that when this story originally broke the article on Fox and Drudge did not say that she was a Democrat. I had to Google her name to find out she was a Democrat and therefore the story was not credible!

   Posted by Vic       05/10/2007  at  10:22 AM  

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