Originally Posted by Centurion

The military? Hey everyone..where do you think most of the National Guard is?

IRAQ! That is the main reason things have been so slow to happen in the Gulf States. We have plenty of water, food, clothing and can get all of this to people if we had the MANPOWER!

That's the purpose of the National Guard. To be there is case of EMERGENCY!
But the Gulf States (like the rest of the states) are operating at 50% or less of their normal manpower in terms of the National Guard. Now other states are rushing their units to the Gulf States.

Gawd forbid some other large disaster strikes now because frankly we are not prepared manpower wise to handle it! It will be interesting to see how long it takes before the press and others start raising this point.

And you can thank GW for this major fuck up too!