Sebelius warned Bush last year about Guard shortages

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/05/08/sebelius-warned-bush-last-year-about-guard-shortages/

Sebelius warned Bush last year about Guard shortages.

Kansas is currently missing approximately 60 percent of its National Guard equipment because of the war in Iraq, hampering its ability to respond to the recent tornadoes. Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) said that she has “written the Pentagon twice and spoke about the issue at great length with Bush in January 2006.” “He assured me that he had additional equipment in his budget a year ago. … Meanwhile, it doesn’t get any better. I’m at a loss,” Sebelius said, adding that she will bring up the issue again with the President when he visits Kansas on Wednesday.


http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6483326

[bdamomma]

1. all Governors should be on alert and reveal to this sick government

how their National Guard troops should be here for national security reasons. We are totally unprepared for anything to come our way, totally unprepared. That sick SOB *.:mad:

[Trouser Trout]

2. He doesn't care; he's too busy bike-riding n/t

[Eurobabe]

3. and offending the Queen. n/t

[tanyev]

4. Well, she'd better be prepared to ask him in front of television cameras

during the carefully choreographed photo-ops, because that's probably the only chance she'll get.

[KansDem]

5. So what? He was warned about 9/11 and Iraq and did nothing...

Whether or not a state had the manpower and equipment to assist in the wake of a natural disaster is small potatoes to him. He proved that during Katrina.