someone please explain...

[lemosley01]

As far as the disaster, Bush can only be faulted for the effected states being shorted tens of thousands of National Guard troops. The idea of the Guard is to have troops always here to defend us, even if our armies are deployed elsewhere. They never should have been sent overseas. "Oh, be we couldn't have seen this coming", shut up, yes some one DID see this coming. They saw it coming 300+years ago when the colonial national guard was founded. "hmm, what if someting happens when the army isn't here? Lets have some soldiers that stay here to protect us." This is a reminder of how thin our forces are spread.

 

BUZZZZZZ, There were ~18,000 troops in the region on Wednesday. After the hurricane initially left N.O, everyone thought they had gotten away lucky. At that point, the troops in-region were more than enough. The levees broke on August 30th (Tuesday, the next day). Then all hell really broke loose. Regardless, there are more than enough NG troops to handle this. Things went from 'sorta bad' to shitty in a god awful hurry.

 

Further, the state has the capability to mobilize the guard beforehand. Alabama did - wonder why Louisiana didn't have enough guys prepared?

 

Don't try and use anti-war rhetoric to pin this on Bush. It ain't true.

[Science Abuse]

There were ~18,000 troops in the region on Wednesday.

I can put this 2 ways:

90,000 square miles

and

Ninety THOUSAND square miles.

 

One troop for every 5 square miles of inhabbited disater area. If thats enough, they must be trained in omnipresence.

[lemosley01]

I can put this 2 ways:

90,000 square miles

and

Ninety THOUSAND square miles.

 

One troop for every 5 square miles of inhabbited disater area. If thats enough, they must be trained in omnipresence.

 

Most of that 90K square miles is lightly populated. N.O and Biloxi are the two most heavily populated areas. The problems are in New Orleans, not in the rest of the areas. Look at the numbers here in Ohio - the state might be big and there might be 8 million people in it, but 6 million of those people are concentrated in small areas.

 

This is not a 'troop number' problem. From the outside looking in, it's more of a 'tactical' problem.

 

Once again - this really comes back to a 'you have to prepare yourself' issue. Stop depending on the government to nanny you and take some responsibility.

[Cougar1647545494]

+1 for *Sport Utility* Vehicles... sport utility my ass

[Science Abuse]

Once again - this really comes back to a 'you have to prepare yourself' issue. Stop depending on the government to nanny you and take some responsibility.

Absolutley. As cheap as Hueys can be gotten these days, there's no excuse for them being in the position they're in.

When there is a hurrican coming, you expect high winds, heavy rain, and storm surge. Those thousands of people stayed in their homes because they expected the sturctures to survive that, and they did. The levy broke, one supposed to be maintained by the state, how are any of the flood deaths the fault of any of the est 400,000 homeless people stuck down there?

[Mallard]

Before the hurricane hit land they said the levy was only designed to survive a level 3 hurricane.