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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 11:17:43 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Brock Meeks <Brock.Meeks () msnbc com> Date: August 31, 2005 10:47:45 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: RE: [IP] isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?! I did a story on this, Dave. The Guard troop strength in LA alone is at 65 percent of all guard members; 35 percent of them are in Iraq and are, in fact, due home next month. There are a total of 124,000 guard troops across 17 states either activated or ready to be if needed. Even with the heavy rotation into Iraq and Afghanistan, no state has less than 50 percent of its total available guard enlistment available at any one time. This was an agreement made with the Department of Defense. And in fact, most states have 75 percent of their guard at home. All this according to official deployment and enlistment figures released by the Pentagon and in interviews with the National Guard. In addition, regular military are now being mobilized (some 22,000 at last count) to come and help with the effort. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 04:43 To: Ip Ip Subject: [IP] isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?! Begin forwarded message: From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Date: August 31, 2005 12:38:30 AM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: marianne mueller <mrm () sonic net> Subject: isn't the Louisiana National Guard is needed at HOME?! These were comments just received from a friend -- fowarded for IP with her explicit permission. --jim At 5:57 PM -0700 8/30/05, marianne mueller wrote:
Given people trapped in attics water rising people trapped in areas now flooding aligators, snakes ... in water people in Superdome stranded, no water to drink hospitals evacuating looters outbreak of disease only hours away, given water everywhere possibly bodies from graveyards joining the soup more than a million (?) people stranded is there any possible reason not to order every last National Guard from Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi back home from Iraq? They've been training for a long time, many of them, to deal with disaster at home. Someone tell me why they need to be in Iraq. I think this is worse than 9/11, this is our tsunami. I'm waiting to hear what our leaders have thought up, as a way to start dealing with this. It is really time for creative leadership. Marianne
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