Rumsfeld kept rescue choppers from Katrina

[kpete]

Rumsfeld kept rescue choppers from Katrina - Turf War
by SteinL

The GQ article about SecDef Rumsfeld is now up. Frank Rich referenced it in today's column.
http://men.style.com/gq/features/landing?id=content_9217

There you'll find the cover pages of the top secret notes Rumsfeld sent to the WH - with biblical quotations above battlefield images.

But you'll also find this:

- a final story of Rumsfeld’s intransigence begins on Wednesday, August 31, 2005. Two days after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans—and the same day that Bush viewed the damage on a flyover from his Crawford, Texas, retreat back to Washington—a White House advance team toured the devastation in an Air Force helicopter. Noticing that their chopper was outfitted with a search-and-rescue lift, one of the advance men said to the pilot, "We’re not taking you away from grabbing people off of rooftops, are we?"

"No, sir," said the pilot. He explained that he was from Florida’s Hurlburt Field Air Force base—roughly 200 miles from New Orleans—which contained an entire fleet of search-and-rescue helicopters. "I’m just here because you’re here," the pilot added. "My whole unit’s sitting back at Hurlburt, wondering why we’re not being used."

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/17/732410/-Rumsfeld-kept-rescue-choppers-from-KatrinaTurf-War

[Chemical Bill]

1. And rescue boats...

and donated drinking water....

Bill

[alfredo]

2. New Orleans was the Democratic stronghold in Louisiana. Destroy New

Orleans, destroy the Louisiana Democratic Party.

[Octafish]

3. 'My whole unit’s sitting back at Hurlburt, wondering why we’re not being used.'

K&R.

Another dot connected to evil.

[Chemical Bill]

4. With the BFEE we have so many dots...

the page is all black.

Bill