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Thoran · 09-04-2005, 10:40 AM

Chewbacca I don't believe that Iraq has had a significant impact on government ability to respond to this disaster. We have a huge amount of military hardware, and only a small fraction of it is in Iraq. I think judgement mistakes were made early on, the first two days nobody pulled the trigger to put the military on the case, so once they did (and it took a couple days to get them moving) you had a situation where for 4 days it looked like nothing was being done.

Personally I think there's blame enough to go around... and while the buck stops at GW... I put more responsibility on the State and Municipal government (you know... the one's who are blaming GW for the fact that they themselves dropped the ball big time).

09-04-2005, 10:40 AM	#10
Thoran Galvatron Join Date: January 10, 2002 Location: Upstate NY Age: 57 Posts: 2,109	Chewbacca I don't believe that Iraq has had a significant impact on government ability to respond to this disaster. We have a huge amount of military hardware, and only a small fraction of it is in Iraq. I think judgement mistakes were made early on, the first two days nobody pulled the trigger to put the military on the case, so once they did (and it took a couple days to get them moving) you had a situation where for 4 days it looked like nothing was being done. Personally I think there's blame enough to go around... and while the buck stops at GW... I put more responsibility on the State and Municipal government (you know... the one's who are blaming GW for the fact that they themselves dropped the ball big time).