Thread: Senator Boxer Blames Ca Fires On Too Few....

National Guard to help out, "cause they're in Iraq".
Is there any opportunity that the left won't bring up & blame the war in Iraq for? Good thing this fire isn't near San Francisco cause the NG wouldn't be allowed in there, right?
I just heard this on the news & can't find a link.

Well in my eyes, the national guard should never leave the country. (Well maybe certain exceptions, but Iraq is no WW2)

Well said TenGig, NationalGAURD for a reason. Kind of like a defensemen in futbol, or a canadian in hockey.

Bwahahahahahahaha ! Its Automatic !!! So Funny !! At Work we were betting on the 1st remarks that would tie the fires in Cali to "its Bushes fault"
Silly us we should have known the Santa Anna winds always blow harder with less National Guard on hand !!! Bwahahahahahahaha !!!

Originally Posted by Republicant

Bwahahahahahahaha ! Its Automatic !!! So Funny !! At Work we were betting on the 1st remarks that would tie the fires in Cali to "its Bushes fault"
Silly us we should have known the Santa Anna winds always blow harder with less National Guard on hand !!! Bwahahahahahahaha !!!

Sounds like a horribly over-republican place to work. How do you all get past your communal smug self-satisfaction to get anything done?

Originally Posted by TenGig

Well in my eyes, the national guard should never leave the country. (Well maybe certain exceptions, but Iraq is no WW2)

That's another story. The NG can be & are federalized whenever they are needed, like it or not, that's the way it is, you can't pick & choose which conflicts you think are worthy of activating the NG.

Originally Posted by Republicant

Bwahahahahahahaha ! Its Automatic !!! So Funny !! At Work we were betting on the 1st remarks that would tie the fires in Cali to "its Bushes fault"
Silly us we should have known the Santa Anna winds always blow harder with less National Guard on hand !!! Bwahahahahahahaha !!!

maybe had Ca kept up with their cleaning out of old brush & etc....Oh wait, the Greenies would've balked.

Originally Posted by Migi e!

That's another story. The NG can be & are federalized whenever they are needed, like it or not, that's the way it is, you can't pick & choose which conflicts you think are worthy of activating the NG.

Someone can pick and choose, and that's the person Boxer is criticizing.

Originally Posted by Republicant

Bwahahahahahahaha ! Its Automatic !!! So Funny !! At Work we were betting on the 1st remarks that would tie the fires in Cali to "its Bushes fault"
Silly us we should have known the Santa Anna winds always blow harder with less National Guard on hand !!! Bwahahahahahahaha !!!

It's true, all the excess Bueracracy creates alot of drag.

Calm down Liberals, help on the way.

White House: Katrina lessons applied to California fires.

The White House worked Tuesday to assure the US public that it had learned its lesson from the botched response to Hurricane Katrina, as it now grappled with devastating fires in California.

"I think that there were lessons learned from Katrina, especially in regards to early communication and coordination between the federal, state, and local governments," spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters at a daily briefing.
US President George W. Bush, who was very criticized for the sluggish response to Katrina from Washington two years ago, quickly reached out to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, she said.
"Governor Schwarzenegger did tell the President he felt he was getting what he needed, but the president said, 'you've got an open line of communication, and if you need more, you just have to let us know,'" she said.
Overnight Monday into Tuesday, Bush declared that the state, where some 500,000 people have been ordered to leave their homes in the face of the advancing fires, was eligible for federal aid.
On Tuesday, Bush sent Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, David Paulison, to the devastated areas in the state.
"All of us across this nation are concerned for the families who have lost their homes, and the many families who have been evacuated from their homes. We send our prayers and thoughts with those who've been affected, and we send the help of the federal government, as well," Bush said.
"Today I have sent Secretary Chertoff and Director Paulison of the FEMA to go out to California to listen, develop an inventory of supplies and help that we can provide," he said in a speech.
Perino displayed slides showing the amount of federal aid sent so far -- including cots, blankets and 280,000 bottles of water -- "to alert people to what the federal government is doing in order to help."
"The state and local governments are working quite well together, as well, which is why we've had a good coordinated response. It's a very dangerous situation," she said. White House: Katrina lessons applied to California fires