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February 27, 2006

Governors: Bush is wrecking the National Guard

From the no shit files that hide behind the New York Times' firewall:

Governors of both parties said Sunday that Bush administration policies were stripping the National Guard of equipment and personnel needed to respond to hurricanes, floods, tornadoes, forest fires and other emergencies.

Tens of thousands of National Guard members have been sent to Iraq, along with much of the equipment needed to deal with natural disasters and terrorist threats in the United States, the governors said here at the winter meeting of the National Governors Association.

Anyone not living in a cave since the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina has seen for themselves what Bush has done to the Guard. Its all a part of the whole contempt this Administration has for the US military.

The only thing that matters to these guys is tax cuts and making money. They'll do anything to anyone at any time in order to facilitate those goals.

They certainly have no regard for the law:

In a recent report, the Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress, said that "extensive use of the Guard's equipment overseas has significantly reduced the amount of equipment available to governors for domestic needs."

Since 2003, the report said, the Army National Guard has left more than 64,000 pieces of equipment, valued at more than $1.2 billion, in Iraq. The Army has not kept track of most of this equipment and has no firm plans to replace it, the report said.

DOD policy requires all of this equipment to be replaced. No plan is in place to do so--and the Administration isn't exactly going out of their way to see that it is.

Can't do it. Wouldn't be prudent. Tax cuts, yannow.

Losers.

Posted by Carla at February 27, 2006 02:15 PM