Should some troops be removed from Iraq/Afghanistan and sent to New Orleans

He's right, you were in deeper trouble if you left your home because of the torrential downfall. The storms in Ohio lasted about 48 hours and they would've killed you if you were out walking in them.

 

'let them eat cake'

 

I don't know. The sight of thounsands of people dying haven't really sped up the FEMA response.

I agree with you that a lot of the people still in NO probably should've gotten out of there. But there are also a lot of people for whom leaving is not an option.

It is not just the sick and the old who cannot leave. Don't forget the children. And the people who are RELATED or otherwise RESPONSIBLE for the people who are not mobile. You can't exactly just leave grandma behind.

 

Or jello.

 

Indeed. If only those lazy folks would have run or even jogged out of New Orleans we wouldn't be having to deal with their mess now.

 

Of course he's right.....I'm just in admiration of the patience and tolerance he displayed in actually typing it out as a response to the previous garbage...

 

These people were supposed to walk where??




Thousands of refugees, many of them elderly, waited in the Louis Armstrong Airport today for flights out of New Orleans.

(the New York Times)



Keep D&D Civil!!

 

Seems like Bush has granted 300 airmen from Mississippi and Alabama stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan some time off to come back home and help out the people back home.

So I guess we are diverting a small number of people from the warzones back here to help out, although 300 is a very small, insignificant number.

 

Leaving aside the sheer stupidity of walking outside during a Hurricane do you know that N.O is completely surrounded by swampland and other bodies of water which would have been a death trap. Did you see what the Hurricane did to the bridges over the Lake? I can't even believe I responding to the most ignorant statement made during this event.

 

This post might be the single WORST post I have ever seen from a poster who knows better. We already have a Trader_Jorge; we don't need another one, Hydra.

 

My God man. What the **** is wrong with you?

 

I didn't bother reading this whole thread and I rarely spend time in this forum, but did someone say that people should have WALKED out of NO before the storm hit? That is just so amazingly ignorant that I cannot believe that someone would say that.

The hurricane doesn't announce where it will hit before it makes landfall. Although we are getting better at forecasting them, no one would have been surprised had it made landfall 50 miles or more either way of where it eventually hit.

Jesus freaking Christ how colossally ignorant can some people be?

 

I was watching the FEMA press conference on CNN today and something they said struck me as very significant.

When asked why the National Guard response was so slow, the NG spokesperson said it took time to identify the guards with the RIGHT EXPERTISE. By that he meant guardsmen with search & rescue and police background.

I'm not a military expert, but wouldn't a whole lot of our guardsmen with police background be serving in Iraq?

The federal government keeps telling us that we have more than enough guardsmen to take care of business at home. Maybe that's true if we're not considering the specialties needed in this emergency. But given that we desperately needed a police presence in NO, I think Iraq has definitely caused us more than a few lives at home.

 

Would having some of those troops and their equipment back here help? I believe so but at the same time with Iraq still dangerously unstable I'm not sure that will help us in the long run. If we pull out of Iraq suddenly with no one to replace us I firmly believe Iraq will descend into a civil war that will rapidly become a breeding ground for Al Qaeda. I've never agreed with going into Iraq and think its been handled terribly but we're there and the consequences of a haphazard withdrawl I think are far worse than staying for the immediate future.

I think the bigger issue than just moving troops is whether our government can support a longterm war and occupation abroad with what will need to be a huge investment in rebuilding the affected disaster region. Our military is supposed to be organized to handle two wars at once. Interms of costs and resources we've got that situation now.

 

Yes, by all means. That way, Jesse Jackson can say they were sent there to kill black people.