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Originally Posted by mburbank
Bush rejected suggestions that the nation's military was stretched too thinly with the war in Iraq to deal with the Gulf Coast devastation. "We've got plenty of troops to do both," the president said. "It is preposterous to claim that the engagement in Iraq meant there weren't enough troops."
Why then have we hired Blackwater, a private security firm, to
patrol the streets of New Orleans?
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That's an interesting question, because from what I had heard, only a collective 1/3 of Louisiana and Mississippi's active-duty guardsmen are in Iraq. Those numbers may be wrong.
The Sunday Washington Post had a very good, comprehensive, day-by-day account of the Katrina mess. One thing I took away from it was that more than simply bodies taken away in Iraq were the problem. Other things, like satellite radios for example, were of issue. Apparently Louisiana only has two, one of which is in Iraq. This made multiple-tracking of the storm's strength and landing time a little more difficult.
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