Leaked Pentagon study
By on Oct 2nd, 2005 at 9:44 pm
Leaked Pentagon study
shows Katrina relief efforts “suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war.”
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War? What war? I thought we won that one 2 years ago when Bush declared Mission Accomplished.
October 2nd, 2005 at 10:18 pmGuess the report confirms what we hve known from the start.
October 2nd, 2005 at 10:23 pmThis strikes me as another potential hand grenade release. It’s probably totally fabricated and contains some subtle tiny flaw that they can use to debunk it.
It’s a common counter-espionage thing to leak documents with different flaws in them to different suspected moles. Then the version that shows up on the front page tells you which mole leaked it.
I think they burned Dan Rather this way so I’d be very careful if I was a reporter and got a “leaked” report like this that seemed so damning of the current administration…
October 2nd, 2005 at 11:33 pmGee, who would’ve thought that having the troops over there would hurt us over here when we needed them the most?
October 2nd, 2005 at 11:55 pmbuckfush, dude. I agree with you. I Buy Blue whenever possible. But there is an etiquette (can i spell?) to blogs and leaving comments and you’re not following it.
You pissed people off on dailykos today
( http://dailykos.com/story/2005/10/2/125729/881 )
doing the same shit. Write a blog and make your point there. And if you want to leave your links, do it in addition to making a contribution to this conversation. And if you can’t contribute don’t comment.
Here’s a sample comment you could leave…
“Hmmm, that’s an interesting point Andrew. I may look into that to learn more about the Rather leak. I happen to think complaining about certain scandals is a waste of time because they don’t push forward progressive policies. If you agree with this and would like to learn more visit these links. Thanks. i’m not a jerk!”
Sorry if I’m now being a jerk. But you’ve annoyed me twice in the past 15 minutes and that’s twice too many.
October 3rd, 2005 at 12:02 amthe ‘iraq slowed down the response’ seems to be a small part of the article.
but still significant, just wish they would have went with it more.
i would post the link to my blog about this but…i don’t want to be a spammer
October 3rd, 2005 at 2:30 am[...] Think Progress catches from The Independant, UK. Leaked Pentagon study shows Katrina relief efforts “suffered near catastrophic failures due to endemic corruption, divisions within the military and troop shortages caused by the Iraq war.†[...]
October 3rd, 2005 at 4:15 amchris, no offense but this is a blog not your blog. People leave links to their own sites all the time, what’s the big deal? It’s “open” and “free”, if someone is intrigued by the link they can check it out and if it appeals to them they can read it or click their mouse and be gone. Try not to be so dictatorial. Like the dude said, it’s only a link.
October 3rd, 2005 at 5:47 amWidespread corruption in the New Orleans City Government?
No! How could that be?
The democratic party, perhaps. DeLay and company are not the only corrupt fools. New Orleans was a cesspool, its culture and tourism industry a facade. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. In this case, the man behind the curtain was a very sick city.
Andrew in Louisiana
October 3rd, 2005 at 8:07 amYou need to be more creative about it buckfish. You end up pissing off the people you need involved by posting it ad nauseum like an annoying advertisement, pop-up or spam. That’s the trick with marketing, it’s all about how you sell it.
October 3rd, 2005 at 1:12 pm345. Hurricane, a tool to distract (9/27/05)
I allege the recent hurricanes were practice of climate war. It was part of framed case plotted by D.O.J..
1. Motive: As I have said, the September plot planned to kill two birds by one stone. Hurricanes were developed to help this purpose. (The main action was terror attack)
(1) To distract the peace movement, New Orleans was drowned by flood caused by Katrina on 8/29. The tragic scene thereafter occupied the whole page and screen of media for weeks which at same time drowned the news of Cindy Sheehan’s anti war bus trip that started one day later.
The national emergency rescue was deliberately delayed. Military waited three days for orders. The slow re-action is not only incompetent but a crime when a city was drowned. But this was what inside group needed. The delay of rescue could create more stories of death, loot to draw public’s attention. The media even activated an accusation war of who should be responsible for the slow action All these aimed at one purpose, to divert public’s attention from peace movement.
Of course for the big demonstration of 9/24, Inside Group prepared a big hurricane. Media blew the trumpet to propaganda that Hurricane Rita was shaping up to be one of the strongest Storms ever to hit the USA, exceeding even Katrina. And the landing date of Rita was exactly the same day – 9/24.
As a project to distract, hurricane Katrina and Rita was a success. There is little report about anti-war gathering. They checked up the momentum of Peace movement at the loss of thousand lives and hundred billions worth of properties.
(2) To cover up the framed case, Katrina also played an important role. My case is a big one. Feds has accumulated large quantity of real estates property in the case. To keep the value of these properties, they abuse the power to keep the long term interest rate low. Feds creates a strange phenomenon: all other merchandise were in low price which include automobile, computer, food, clothes …. except the house. To maintain a booming real estate market, they almost make the long term interest rate equal to the short term one. But all these are artificial. Once I was eliminated and they released their properties, all the restriction on other merchandise will be released too. There will be a big inflation in US then. Long term interest rate will go sky rocket. For this economic crisis, Inside Group even prepared to squeeze more from American people. They passed a new bankruptcy law for those potential victims of the coming economic tsunami. And Feds also prepared a justification for that crisis. When despaired people get angry, government will attribute the failure to the hurricanes. It damaged oil industry in Mexico Bay and caused high gas price. Everybody will believe so because they feel the bite when they pump the gas. The real cause of the crisis will be neglected. Hurricanes would be the excuse of an economy depression if the 9/24 frame case has been carried out.
Ophelia was another storm developed around 9/10 in East Coast. The newspaper said “It loitered in the Atlantic for days, and is trudging so slowly that it should spend two days on North Carolina.”, “It’s been very difficult to get a feeling of what Ophelia is going to do.” The strange thing is here. For Rita and Katrina, the media seemed knew what they were going to do and even draw a timing route for their future movement. Why they couldn’t tell Ophelia’s?
I know why. Ophelia was a work of operation team of climate war. The team worked it out after they finished Katrina and then after Ophelia, they went for Rita. The task for Ophelia was to distract, (or even play a role) in a trip accident. My relatives were then in a trip in East Coast and Canada.(From 9/10 to 9/17). On 9/2 and 9/7, I continued to warn that Feds would create a travel accident to eliminate my family members. (#339, #340). To justify it, they even produced several air crash within a month. Ophelia wandered along East Coast, it was waiting for the decision of Feds. Its movement puzzled FEMA team.
On 9/15, news said Ophelia left East Coast for ocean. I knew Feds had postponed the plan of travel accident
Feds had planned the Rita even stronger than Katrina. They even put the landing date on 9/24 the action date. But it was too evident a plot after my revelation. When in final days, news changed the tones said that Rita wouldn’t develop to category 5, I knew the 9/24 frame case and bombing plot went sour.
But the persecution won’t stop. It goes on. (to be continued)
October 8th, 2005 at 4:27 pm