If there is any more evidence that the continuance of the Bush-Cheney regime one second more is a clear and present danger to our nation, .this sickening story proves the point even more.
The same Bush regime who failed so badly the people of New Orleans and then sent its apologists to blame the Democratic state leadership in the Hurricane Katrina tragedy left a whole region of Kansas unprepared when the state's National Guard was caught without the machinery needed to cope with the damage of a major tornado.
Instead of being in position to help Kansans deal with the damage inflicted by the tornado, the manpower and equipment was instead in Iraq dealing with Bush's morally bankrupt and irresponsible war of choice in Iraq.
And who are the Republicans going to blame for that since the constitution makes the president the commander in chief of the armed forces?
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The following comment really struck me:
This morning on CNN, Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) said that the state is missing vital National Guard equipment because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Usually the state has approximately 70-80 percent of its equipment at any given time, but it currently has just 40-50 percent. She added that these shortages "will just make it [recovery] that much slower."
Was getting caught in the middle of a civil war in Iraq really worth the damage this tornado caused? If the Katrina fiasco serves as indication, Republican minions are going to try to shift blame to the Kansas governor, but who controls National Guard units since the U.S. Constitution makes the president, not the Kansas governor, commander in chief of the armed forces?
It's time we fight back and make sure Republicans and their apologists in the media are not allowed to shift blame the way they did during the Katrina fiasco. They had no right to blame anyone else then, and they have no right to blame anyone else but themselves and the failed leader they so enthusiastically promoted during the last two presidential elections-- George Walker Bush.
These Republicans' acts of political malpractice against the American people in enabling Bush cannot be overlooked or condoned, and those in the media who continue to serve as White House stenographers instead of truth-seeking journalists must be held accountable as well.