LOL! Rummy to Stripes! Pentagon:No delay in getting aid to storm victims

[lebkuchen]

So THIS is how propaganda works--just deny it happened and *poof* all the bad stuff goes away.

http://army.laser.net/article.asp?article=31434§ion=104

Amid growing criticism that Hurricane Katrina relief efforts moved too slowly, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chief of Staff Richard B. Myers said Tuesday that there was no delay in getting aid to victims.

Asked why it took days to get National Guard troops moving to the area hit by the hurricane, Rumsfeld replied, “It didn’t.”

<cut Rummy's bullshit>

But lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Chuck Hagel, have ripped the federal relief effort as disorganized and inadequate.

“Once the immediate crisis is addressed, there will be many serious questions to answer about the speed and quality of the federal government’s response to this horrific disaster. As the President himself has said, the results of the recovery effort are not acceptable,” Hagel said in a statement Tuesday.

<cut more of Rummy's bullshit>

Still, Myers said the National Guard response to the disaster was “very quick.”

“We can never be perfect in a tragedy like this,” Myers said.

http://army.laser.net/article.asp?article=31434§ion=104

You are on your own, America, when it comes to saving yourselves in the next national disaster. As Broussard has said, "Nobody is coming!" Myers' excuse after tens of thousands of Americans are found dead? "Nobody is perfect!"

A country like the US cannot survive long with such incompetent boobs holding power.

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. They can't fool our troops. They already know what is going on....and

many of them have friends and family in the disaster area telling them what is really going on.

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[lebkuchen]

3. You may be right since

after denying so many NG/Reserve/Active Duty emergency leaves, the DoD is letting the LANG return to their state to help.

Otherwise, troop mutiny?

[ComerPerro]

2. Incredible

I am simply in awe.

With information as widely availible as it is today, how can they get away with this shit?

[lebkuchen]

5. The deployed troops get Stripes and Fox 24/7

I don't know how available access is to real news, but if there are computers available, you can bet most are using their expensive ATT cards to e-mail home.

[ComerPerro]

7. Well, it works on American people too. Ones with full access

to all kinds of media.

Granted, there is the fanatic 20% or so that just need to be lied to, who will galdly listen and lap up all the bullshit.

But how can the "moderates" just let this crap go unchallenged?

How come this administraiton hasn't been laughed out of the country yet? (and that would be the nice way to get rid of them)

[lebkuchen]

8. 50,000 American can die, but peril to the prez who has 9 consensual BJs

[Captain Hilts]

4. This will be news to the USS Bataan crew. Who were ready. And sat. nt

[Bonhomme Richard]

6. Worked for the Nazis.