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05 Sep 2005 12:06:43 AM |
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OT: War on the Mississippi |
War on the Mississippi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9144492/site/newsweek/
Can America marshal the resources to fight battles in Iraq and rebuild
the Gulf Coast? A political storm is brewing.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 7:31 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2005
Aug. 31, 2005 - For years the Pentagon's standing readiness plans
required the country to be able to fight two major wars simultaneously.
But no one anticipated what we face now: a war in Mesopotamia and
another along the Mississippi.
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| User: "johac" |
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05 Sep 2005 06:58:34 AM |
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In article <1125878803.136583.237590@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
War on the Mississippi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9144492/site/newsweek/
Good article!
Can America marshal the resources to fight battles in Iraq and rebuild
the Gulf Coast?
No.
A political storm is brewing.
Category 10 at least.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 7:31 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2005
Aug. 31, 2005 - For years the Pentagon's standing readiness plans
required the country to be able to fight two major wars simultaneously.
But no one anticipated what we face now: a war in Mesopotamia and
another along the Mississippi.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "Doc Smartass" |
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| Title: Re: OT: War on the Mississippi |
05 Sep 2005 05:56:38 PM |
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johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in news:jhachm-
DC532A.23583404092005@news.giganews.com:
In article <1125878803.136583.237590@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
War on the Mississippi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9144492/site/newsweek/
Good article!
Can America marshal the resources to fight battles in Iraq and rebuild
the Gulf Coast?
No.
A political storm is brewing.
Category 10 at least.
Look in to the eye of the storm
Look out for the force without form
Look around at the sight and and sound
Look in, look out, look around.
--Rush, "Force Ten"
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Dr. Smartass -- BAAWA Knight of Heckling -- a.a. #1939
My president is incompetenter than your prime minister.
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| User: "johac" |
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| Title: Re: OT: War on the Mississippi |
05 Sep 2005 10:10:04 PM |
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In article <Xns96C883EB55BFCaskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekiskivviesdo@astroboyskivviesmail.com> wrote:
johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in news:jhachm-
DC532A.23583404092005@news.giganews.com:
In article <1125878803.136583.237590@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
War on the Mississippi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9144492/site/newsweek/
Good article!
Can America marshal the resources to fight battles in Iraq and rebuild
the Gulf Coast?
No.
A political storm is brewing.
Category 10 at least.
Look in to the eye of the storm
Look out for the force without form
Look around at the sight and and sound
Look in, look out, look around.
--Rush, "Force Ten"
I wish that W would.
--
John Hachmann aa #1782
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
-Voltaire
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: War on the Mississippi |
09 Sep 2005 02:46:41 AM |
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On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 15:10:04 -0700, johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote:
In article <Xns96C883EB55BFCaskifyouwantit@216.77.188.18>,
Doc Smartass <gekiskivviesdo@astroboyskivviesmail.com> wrote:
johac <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in news:jhachm-
DC532A.23583404092005@news.giganews.com:
In article <1125878803.136583.237590@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
"maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
War on the Mississippi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9144492/site/newsweek/
Good article!
Can America marshal the resources to fight battles in Iraq and rebuild
the Gulf Coast?
No.
A political storm is brewing.
Category 10 at least.
Look in to the eye of the storm
Look out for the force without form
Look around at the sight and and sound
Look in, look out, look around.
--Rush, "Force Ten"
I wish that W would.
Shrub wants Roberts in Reinquists vacated slot.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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| User: "stoney" |
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| Title: Re: OT: War on the Mississippi |
09 Sep 2005 02:45:56 AM |
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On 4 Sep 2005 17:06:43 -0700, "maff" <maff91@yahoo.com> wrote:
War on the Mississippi
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9144492/site/newsweek/
Can America marshal the resources to fight battles in Iraq and rebuild
the Gulf Coast? A political storm is brewing.
WEB-EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY
By Howard Fineman
Newsweek
Updated: 7:31 p.m. ET Sept. 2, 2005
Aug. 31, 2005 - For years the Pentagon's standing readiness plans
required the country to be able to fight two major wars simultaneously.
But no one anticipated what we face now: a war in Mesopotamia and
another along the Mississippi.
We have journalist Malcolm Gladwell to thank for the idea that every
social phenomenon has a dramatic “tipping point.” It doesn’t always
work that way. And yet Hurricane Katrina is just such a moment. We are
a big, strong country—and New Orleans will, somehow, survive—but you
do get the sense, as President Bush finally arrived here after a
monthlong vacation, that a political hurricane is gathering force, and
it’s going to hit the capital any day.
As we approach the fourth anniversary of 9/11, Americans are facing a
different anguish from a different, but no less iconic city. New
Yorkers, on behalf of the rest of us, absorbed Al Qaeda’s attack and
came back stronger than ever. We begin the fifth year of a “war
against terror” that has brought some gains, but has cost 2,000 lives
and half a trillion dollars—and there is no end in sight.
And now: the Storm and the Flood, which have inundated the Gulf Coast
in deadly water. This is, literally, an invasion of the homeland, and
it will require a warlike response from a nation and a military
already stretched thin. National Guard officials insist that they have
enough men and women on hand to do the job, but common sense tells you
that they could use the others stationed abroad. The U.S. Navy is
dispatching supply ships to the region, but battling the waters that
cover the region will require many more resources.
Andy Jackson won the Battle of New Orleans. Will George Bush? His poll
numbers already at near-record low levels, he will have to oversee the
rescue of the gulf in the midst of a changing climate in Washington.
The public’s sense of where America is headed—the “right
direction/wrong track” numbers—are dismal. Gas prices are high and
unsettling. Congressional Democrats, reluctant since 9/11 to take on a
“war president,” finally have decided to do so. And Republicans,
knowing that they’ll be facing the voters a year from now, are
beginning to seek ways to distance themselves from him.
This president doesn’t need Karl Rove to explain the political
importance of disaster relief. It’s something Bush responds to
naturally, and he knows the risks of seeming to be an insensitive,
to-the-manner-born president. When hurricanes hit Florida before the
last election, he and his brother, Jeb, were on the case, Big Time.
Now three Red States are hit, hard, and the challenge is likely to be
much greater.
Meanwhile, he will have to preside over yet another 9/11 anniversary,
this one coming at a time when most Americans have decided that the
war in Iraq shouldn’t have been fought and that it hasn’t made us
safer at home. Bush will face calls not only for the release of more
oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but for a wholesale
consideration of his energy and environmental policies.
And just after Labor Day, hearings will start in the Judiciary
Committee on the nomination of Judge John G. Roberts Jr. Expect the
Democrats to drop their caution and go after him with all they’ve got.
They’re coming to the conclusion that they have nothing to lose, and
they are being pushed in that combative direction by a grass-roots
base furious at the congressional party for not having taken a tougher
line against the president months if not years ago.
But now they sense blood in the rising water.
© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
--
Contempt of Congress meter reading-offscale.
Hello, theocracy with a fundamentalist US Supreme
Court who will ensure church and state are joined
at the hip like clergy and altar boys.
America 1776-Jan 2001 RIP
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president
represents, more and more closely, the inner soul
of the people. On some great and glorious day the
plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned
by a downright moron." --- H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Religion is the original war crime.
-Michelle Malkin (Feb 26, 2005)
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