Strain of Iraq War Means the Relief Burden Will Have to Be Shared

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083002162.html

Strain of Iraq War Means the Relief Burden Will Have to Be Shared

With thousands of their citizen-soldiers away fighting in Iraq, states hit hard by Hurricane Katrina scrambled to muster forces for rescue and security missions yesterday -- calling up Army bands and water-purification teams, among other units, and requesting help from distant states and the active-duty military.

As the devastation threatened to overwhelm state resources, federal authorities called on the Pentagon to mobilize active-duty aircraft, ships and troops and set up an unprecedented task force to coordinate a wider military response, said officials from the Northern Command, which oversees homeland defense.

National Guard officials in the states acknowledged that the scale of the destruction is stretching the limits of available manpower while placing another extraordinary demand on their troops -- most of whom have already served tours in Iraq or Afghanistan or in homeland defense missions since 2001.

More than 6,000 Guard members were mobilized in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida when the storm struck on Monday, with the number rising to 8,000 yesterday and hundreds more expected to be called to active duty, National Guard officials said yesterday.

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1. Obviously, time for another tax cut for the rich....

(sarcasm)

What percent of repubs do you think will acknowledge that this will cost the government a TON to clean up, and that the government relies on tax revenues to get that money (repubs must think federal revenue grows on magical trees)

Do you think Haley Barbour, former RNC hatchet man now repub MS gov, is somewhat thankful now for those "fedril byoorocrats" in FEMA that will help dig his state out from under the carnage?

[CAG]

Obviously, time for another tax cut for the rich....

(sarcasm)

What percent of repubs do you think will acknowledge that this will cost the government a TON to clean up, and that the government relies on tax revenues to get that money (repubs must think federal revenue grows on magical trees)

Do you think Haley Barbour, former RNC hatchet man now repub MS gov, is somewhat thankful now for those "fedril byoorocrats" in FEMA that will help dig his state out from under the carnage?

[CAG]

2. Obviously, time for another tax cut for the rich....

(sarcasm)

What percent of repubs do you think will acknowledge that this will cost the government a TON to clean up, and that the government relies on tax revenues to get that money (repubs must think federal revenue grows on magical trees)

Do you think Haley Barbour, former RNC hatchet man now repub MS gov, is somewhat thankful now for those "fedril byoorocrats" in FEMA that will help dig his state out from under the carnage?

[CAG]

3. Oops... don't know what happened there, my PC locked up and

the next thing I know somehow this got posted 3 times

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5. Mine did too - think it was a DU glitch

:shrug:

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4. Sorry Americans - Your National Guard is busy guarding someone else's nati

on. :(