Reply from a GD post in the hurrican sticky thread!
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Originally posted by Ziroc:
Micheal Moore is an asshole. He would blame Bush for the size of his penis being too small. Come on.. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Just using another tragedy to attack Bush. same song, new day.
It takes time to gather things for a 90,000 sq mile disaster. They are finally there though. Lets not play the blame game right now. I DO NOT see Micheal Whore down there with a shovel or helping people, so he should shut his mouth.
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Sure he might be an asshole, but the question:
Has the optional Iraq conflict taken away National Gaurd Equipment (like 'copters) that could have been used to rapidly respond to this unavoidable disaster or any other?
I think thats a valid, yet, as far as I know, unanswered question. We know plenty of the Gaurd personel is stateside....but how much of their functional equipment is?
Would deployment for this disaster been faster and/or bigger if Iraq was handled differently?
Look I was againgst the Iraq war for a Myriad of reasons, one of the chief ones being we needed to secure the homeland and getting mired down overseas will make that goal even more difficult. After 9/11 and in the age of terrorist WMD dirty bomb threats responding to and evacuating entire cities should have been a top priority along with securing the border, airports, and seaports.
We can only judge the Iraq war by it's results. If we left the homeland vunerable to go on the offensive overseas then I think we had our priorities wrong.
[ 09-03-2005, 10:34 PM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]