[IP] isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?!

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Jim Warren <jwarren@well.com>
Date: August 31, 2005 12:38:30 AM EDT
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Cc: marianne mueller <mrm@sonic.net>
Subject: isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?!


These were comments just received from a friend -- fowarded for IP  
with her  explicit permission.

--jim


At 5:57 PM -0700 8/30/05, marianne mueller wrote:

> Given
>   people trapped in attics
>   water rising
>   people trapped in areas now flooding
>   aligators, snakes ... in water
>   people in Superdome stranded, no water to drink
>   hospitals evacuating
>   looters
>   outbreak of disease only hours away, given water everywhere
>   possibly bodies from graveyards joining the soup
>   more than a million (?) people stranded
>
> is there any possible reason not to order every last National Guard
> from Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi back home from Iraq?  They've
> been training for a long time, many of them, to deal with disaster
> at home.
>
> Someone tell me why they need to be in Iraq.
>
> I think this is worse than 9/11, this is our tsunami.
>
> I'm waiting to hear what our leaders have thought up, as
> a way to start dealing with this.   It is really time for
> creative leadership.
>
> Marianne



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