Quote Originally Posted by malfeas99
You seem to be under the impression that you are making intellectual headway here.

How does one, exactly, 'defend his own country from mother nature'? Are you seriously this stupid?

Yes, we are at war. No, there is no shortage of manpower. There WAS an unacceptable delay in getting them there, but there is certainly no lack of manpower. There are also provisions against using the military as a law enforcement tool, except under specific circumstances (it is illegal otherwise). They just decided the circumstances existed a couple of days ago.

Ok, genius, now the helicoper's flown in and landed. How do you transport him to affected areas? Is he still in the helicopter when he's surveying the damage? What are the several hundred people necessary to constitute his security detail (from protection to logistics to transportation to communication) doing? Oh, that's right, they're not rescuing people, allowing people like you to complain even more about how things aren't getting done fast enough.
well they could of defended themselves from mother nature if the gov't put our warnings sooner and made available transportation ready for those need assistance. that wouldn't of been so hard considering we knew about this storm 2 weeks ago, and if the projected path was correct New Orleans already knew they couldn't with stand a catgory 4 hurricane.

wow your 2nd paragraph made sense... we have man power yet there is no man power there??? does that mean we have man power??? well guess what there isn't a shortage of troops... they are all over the globe, just not there...

who said "land"? he just got down there today to even survey... it took all week for him to schedule a flight to survey his own country from the air :jerkit: