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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.
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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.
To: JewishRighter
Great headline < /sarcasm>
To: JewishRighter
Freeper asks: Is they have suitcase hurricanes? Another one asks: Are English spoken here?
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:12:41 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(It's funktastic!!)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Is me grammar screwed up?
To: JewishRighter
Is you is, or is you ain't a native English-speaker?
If you are, that headline is appalling.
To: TheBigB
See post 4. Me thinks me goofed. But please forgive and respond to the comment.
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.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:14:12 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: TheBigB
Who be carin' 'bout that? Is they have breaking news?
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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)
To: JewishRighter
Is you is or is you ain't my baby?
All you grammar are belong to us.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:14:22 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(Go Sharon! And take Peres with you!)
To: JewishRighter
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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)
To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Great headline < /sarcasm> What ams wrong is headline?
To: JewishRighter
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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.)
To: JewishRighter
Oh, I thought you was a pirate, matey. Arrr...
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:15:09 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: JewishRighter
I hope you're a good sport and I hope the mods leave the headline as is. Too funny.
To: RegulatorCountry
Me is native English speaker and lousy proof reader. Sorry.
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.
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:15:52 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: dead
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:16:16 PM PDT
by
Frank_Discussion
(May the wings of Liberty never lose a feather!)
To: Frank_Discussion
To: JewishRighter
Bad grammar stunes my beeber. :o)
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posted on
09/07/2005 2:16:48 PM PDT
by
TheBigB
(It's funktastic!!)
To: dead
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