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Key planner criticizes Homeland Security: Freeper asks: Is they have suitcase hurricanes?
Baltimore Sun ^ | 9/7/2005 | Siobhan Gorman

Posted on 09/07/2005 2:10:48 PM PDT by JewishRighter

WASHINGTON - The retired admiral who played a key role in drafting the Homeland Security Department's catastrophic emergency plan said the agency was too hesitant in executing it in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: Louisiana; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: blame; eop; homelandsecurity; hurricane; istheyhave; katrina; neworleans; response; suitcase
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A recurrent theme of the blame game is that, after all the fuss made and the money spent creating the Dept of Homeland Security, how in the world could they be so inept in response to Katrina. The extended argument is that, if they can't handle this, then how can they possibly handle a terrorist attack such as a suitcase nuke or a bio-bomb. Well, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but does anyone think the terrorists have suitcase hurricanes? Are they busy smuggling in earthquakes? Is there anything in any terrorist arsenal anywhere in the world that could bring upon us the devastation of a hurricane, covering tens of thousands of square miles? With all due respect to the whiners (ie: none at all), there is no power known to mankind that can withstand the forces unleashed by Katrina and, while the Feds (esp. Fema) probably could have been more nimble, it is virtually impossible to effect instantaneous relief under such circumstances.
1 posted on 09/07/2005 2:10:50 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

Great headline < /sarcasm>


2 posted on 09/07/2005 2:12:28 PM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?)
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To: JewishRighter
Freeper asks: Is they have suitcase hurricanes?

Another one asks: Are English spoken here?

3 posted on 09/07/2005 2:12:41 PM PDT by TheBigB (It's funktastic!!)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Is me grammar screwed up?


4 posted on 09/07/2005 2:13:00 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

Is you is, or is you ain't a native English-speaker?

If you are, that headline is appalling.


5 posted on 09/07/2005 2:13:10 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry (Esse Quam Videre)
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To: TheBigB

See post 4. Me thinks me goofed. But please forgive and respond to the comment.


6 posted on 09/07/2005 2:14:12 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

You bring up something the adherents to M.A.D. are loathe to confront: Nukes are horrible, but survivable. We in this country have convinced ourselves that M.A.D. is real.

Katrina indeed dwarfed our nukes like a nuke dwarfs a bottle rocket.


7 posted on 09/07/2005 2:14:12 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: TheBigB

Who be carin' 'bout that? Is they have breaking news?


8 posted on 09/07/2005 2:14:17 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Impeach Judge Greer - In memory of Terri <strike>Schiavo</strike> Schindler - www.terrisfight.org)
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To: JewishRighter

Is you is or is you ain't my baby?

All you grammar are belong to us.


9 posted on 09/07/2005 2:14:22 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Go Sharon! And take Peres with you!)
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To: JewishRighter

Yes, Sir. You got it.


10 posted on 09/07/2005 2:14:36 PM PDT by ekwd (Always good to have a civil conversation, even though I'm not very civil)
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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Great headline < /sarcasm>

What ams wrong is headline?

11 posted on 09/07/2005 2:14:53 PM PDT by The Brush
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To: JewishRighter

Is they logged on?


12 posted on 09/07/2005 2:15:01 PM PDT by el_chupacabra (The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.)
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To: JewishRighter

Oh, I thought you was a pirate, matey. Arrr...


13 posted on 09/07/2005 2:15:09 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: JewishRighter

I hope you're a good sport and I hope the mods leave the headline as is. Too funny.


14 posted on 09/07/2005 2:15:22 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: RegulatorCountry
Me is native English speaker and lousy proof reader. Sorry.
15 posted on 09/07/2005 2:15:43 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

I have no doubt somebody with a fruit truck could smuggle a hurricane into the country by hiding it under a pile of undocumented workers.


16 posted on 09/07/2005 2:15:52 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: dead

LOL!


17 posted on 09/07/2005 2:16:16 PM PDT by Frank_Discussion (May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
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To: Frank_Discussion

Well shiver me timbers.


18 posted on 09/07/2005 2:16:34 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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To: JewishRighter

Bad grammar stunes my beeber. :o)


19 posted on 09/07/2005 2:16:48 PM PDT by TheBigB (It's funktastic!!)
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To: dead

ROTFL!


20 posted on 09/07/2005 2:17:14 PM PDT by JewishRighter
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