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GQ report blames Rumsfeld for military delay after Katrina (Hit piece on Rummy)
NOLA.com ^ | May 18, 2009 | Times-Picayune

Posted on 05/20/2009 1:59:15 PM PDT by balch3

A report on the GQ magazine Web site is quoting unnamed former Bush administration official as blaming former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for many failures, including a delay in military assistance in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

The report says "in speaking with the former Bush officials, it becomes evident that Rumsfeld impaired administration performance on a host of matters extending well beyond Iraq to impact America's relations with other nations, the safety of our troops, and the response to Hurricane Katrina.

The Washington Monthly highlights more of Robert Draper's article in GQ:

"[T]hree years later, when I asked a top White House official how he would characterize Rumsfeld's assistance in the response to Hurricane Katrina, I found out why. "It was commonly known in the West Wing that there was a battle with Rumsfeld regarding this," said the official. "I can't imagine another defense secretary throwing up the kinds of obstacles he did."

Though various military bases had been mobilized into a state of alert well before the advance team's tour, Rumsfeld's aversion to using active-duty troops was evident: "There's no doubt in my mind," says one of Bush's close advisers today, "that Rumsfeld didn't like the concept."

The next day, three days after landfall, word of

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


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Louisiana
KEYWORDS: blamegame; dod; gq; hurricane; katrina; liberalmedia; military; rumsfeld
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Now,now,she was sleeping one off during Katrina!


21 posted on 05/20/2009 2:20:22 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: balch3

22 posted on 05/20/2009 2:21:19 PM PDT by Brett66 (Where government advances, and it advances relentlessly , freedom is imperiled -Janice Rogers Brown)
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To: silverleaf

Imagine that.
Rumsfeld was familiar with posse comitatus.

Bears repeating. Whodathunkit? I’m really really getting tired of the MSM doing their best to attack the previous administration just because they were Republican. Hmmm...
could it be that Obama’s disasters currently need a smokescreen?


23 posted on 05/20/2009 2:21:55 PM PDT by griswold3 (a good story is more compelling than the search for truth)
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To: balch3

A failing magazine with declining readership. What, are they down to their last 75 readers and feel a need to be ‘controversial’ to sell a few extra issues?

Screw GQ!


24 posted on 05/20/2009 2:22:58 PM PDT by Two Kids' Dad (((( ))))
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To: mrsmel

Re#20 LOL. You’re right...


25 posted on 05/20/2009 2:23:24 PM PDT by eureka! (Elections have consequences, boy howdy. *sigh*)
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To: mrsmel

LMAO I confused Blanco with Landrieu=miss piggy.


26 posted on 05/20/2009 2:25:25 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
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To: balch3; monkapotamus; Bender2; All

You didn’t know Looter guy got that job LOL!


27 posted on 05/20/2009 2:28:07 PM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

It’s all the same thing, female Louisiana rats.


28 posted on 05/20/2009 2:30:23 PM PDT by mrsmel (Put the Gitmo terrorists near Capitol Hill.)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
I imagine that the obamaemptysuit administration will never be blamed for anything but being Hitler when it is too late.

Kentucky's Ice Storm Worse in Aftermath

0bama dozed, Kentucky froze!

Not a peep from the MSM as he partied on Superbowl weekend eating $100 a pound steaks.

29 posted on 05/20/2009 2:32:30 PM PDT by Islander7 (If you want to anger conservatives, lie to them. If you want to anger liberals, tell them the truth.)
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To: chris_bdba
Don’t these people realize that the military isn’t supposed to be used inside the USA?

No, their model for what the military ought to be is the Chinese Red Army.

30 posted on 05/20/2009 2:34:03 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: balch3

You know good and darn well if the Military had been used in full force, leftists would be screaming their heads off about “attrocities” commited by Bushitler’s gestapo or something stupid like that. What is it about reality these people don’t understand?


31 posted on 05/20/2009 2:38:46 PM PDT by vpintheak (Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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To: silverleaf
"Rumsfeld's aversion to using active-duty troops was evident: "There's no doubt in my mind," says one of Bush's close advisers today, "that Rumsfeld didn't like the concept."

You are right, along with several other Freepers. The Founding fathers are the ones who didn't like the concept. The utter ignorance of the MSM continues to amaze me more than I thought possible.

32 posted on 05/20/2009 2:42:53 PM PDT by neocon1984
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To: balch3

I’m sorry, I missed this at first. This appeared in GQ? Isn’t that a magazine that caters to fags and metrosexuals, and dwells upon such significant issues as this season’s preferred trouser fabric? That GQ?

Why on earth would any of us give a rat’s patoot about what GQ’s editors believe is an appropriate political opinion?


33 posted on 05/20/2009 2:42:56 PM PDT by surely_you_jest
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To: balch3

Isn’t GQ a men’s fashion magazine?


34 posted on 05/20/2009 2:45:56 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: silverleaf; balch3; Rummyfan

FWIW, Michael “Hellava job” Brown is coming out with a book soon claiming that he suggested that people be airlifted out of the New Orleans. He said that TSA said no. Brown said he then went to the Pentagon, where he was granted permission to station Marines on board on the flights. This was still denied by TSA.

Rummy is coming out with a book next year, I think.


35 posted on 05/20/2009 2:58:11 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama - America's Elegabalus and Commodus combined)
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To: mrsmel
Oh, THIS Bianco...


36 posted on 05/20/2009 2:59:03 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: balch3
I am always looking for a reason to post this image of this great American patriot as he voices his message to the lefties...


37 posted on 05/20/2009 3:00:41 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: La Lydia
I got a survey from Men's Vogue after I bought their premiere and they asked me whose style I emulated: I said “VP Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Terrel Owens.”

I wish I had been there to see the look on their face.

38 posted on 05/20/2009 3:00:51 PM PDT by Perdogg (0bama - America's Elegabalus and Commodus combined)
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To: rlmorel

What’s the delay now, in these slugs and slackers getting to ‘h’ out of the government trailers? They’ve been feeding at the ‘chocolate’ trough too long and it’s time to ween that bunch of losers.


39 posted on 05/20/2009 3:02:03 PM PDT by yorkie01
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To: balch3

GQ and the Times-Picayune are "Still Stuck On Stupid".

I gotta have a ceegar so I can think about this sheet.


40 posted on 05/20/2009 3:07:32 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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