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| Reuters Finds a Pentagon Analyst Linking Katrina and Iraq |
| 2005-10-03 |
| Poor planning for Afghanistan, Iraq, everyting in general, and Katrina, and most of the Louisiana Guard was away in Iraq. The headline at Yahoo would make you think it was 'official', not just some "former-professor-and-advisor" bozo. Go to link, Yahoo crashed my computer when I tried to copy-and-paste. An official U.S. report says that failure to plan and train properly has plagued U.S. efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and most recently relief work to combat Hurricane Katrina, The Independent newspaper said on Monday. The British daily said the report by Stephen Henthorne, a former professor and adviser to the Pentagon, concluded that the poor response to Katrina mirrored earlier shortcomings in U.S. campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. "Failure to plan, and train properly has plagued U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and now that failure has come home to roost in the United States," the confidential report said. The report was commissioned by the Pentagon to provide an "independent and critical review" of what went wrong after Hurricane Katrina swept ashore in September. "The one thing that this disaster has demonstrated (is) the lack of co-ordinated, in-depth planning and training on all levels of government, for any/all types of emergency contingencies," the report said. "Another major factor in the delayed response to the hurricane aftermath was that the bulk of the Louisiana and Mississippi National Guard was deployed in Iraq," it said. The report also blamed corruption and mismanagement by local government in New Orleans for diverting cash earmarked for flood prevention schemes to projects more likely to win votes. Henthorne is a former professor of the U.S. Army's War College and was a deputy director in the Louisiana relief efforts, the paper said. He was a professor of Civil-Military Relations at the U.S. Army Peacekeeping Institute, U.S. Army War College Center for Strategic Leadership. His big thing is civilian - military relationships, he doesn't think the military plays well with NGOs. |
| Posted by:Bobby |
| #5 heh! Whoda thunk the Globe, Enquirer and Sun would become more credible than most MSM papers? At least Brad actually divorced Jenn and that one twin is waaay too thin. |
| Posted by: 2b 2005-10-03 23:07 |
| #4 Just remember, it's like Tom sez "Stupidty is it's own virtue" If you see Tom, let him know the dup key is under the mat. |
| Posted by: Hatfield 2005-10-03 18:57 |
| #3 Poor planning for Afghanistan, Iraq, everyting in general, and Katrina, and most of the Louisiana Guard was away in Iraq. Some 2/3 or so of the Louisiana National Guard was still here at the time the storm hit... |
| Posted by: Phil Fraering 2005-10-03 16:18 |
| #2 If just hate Yahoo and their front page headlines. Whoever is making those is an America-hating commie asshole. Of course they could just be a member of the mainstream media. Same thing. |
| Posted by: remoteman 2005-10-03 16:13 |
| #1 Thank you, mods. I tried twice; two crashes. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-10-03 14:50 |