| Fletch XXX |
09-09-2005 06:26 AM |
dont forget signing a presidential declaration 2 days BEFORE KATRINA HIT giving the Feds the lead in disaster efforts.
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Clinton also said she believes the bulk of the investigation should be on the federal level because of the presidential declaration signed two days before Katrina struck.
That declaration put the federal government in the lead to coordinate the response to the disaster.
"I'm primarily interested why the federal government was not more ready, not more able, not more willing" to handle the response to the disaster, she said.
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http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakin...09.html#077587
Signing this gave them the lead, and then what did he do?
Fought for control for days... why when he already had it?
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?I asked him to send me everything he's got,? Blanco said she told Bush in their first conversation,. In their second conversation, Blanco was more specific, saying the state needed 40,000 troops to restore order and complete the search and rescue mission.
But state officials acknowledge that the governor never directly asked for active-duty troops in her phone conversations with Bush. Bottcher said the governor was prepared to accept any combination of Guardsmen and regular Army troops, as long as there were enough numbers to calm the city and complete the rescue effort.
The subject of active-duty troops did not come up until a face-to-face meeting on Air Force One on Sept. 2, when Blanco and Bush spent about 45 minutes meeting behind closed doors. But the president's order to deploy was not made until the following day, and in the meantime the White House and the Blanco administration tussled over who would ultimately be in charge of the rescue effort.
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So, after signing presidential declaration 2 days before Katrina hit, they wasted days of time, and did not even deploy or give the order for troops until Sept 3?Pretty cut and dry what the president has been doing.
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakin...09.html#078245 |
