On May 4th, a mammoth tornado wiped Greensburg, Kansas, off the map. Police officer Robert Tim Buckman was critically injured during the storm. He died in the hospital several days later after his daughter was married at his bedside.
Sadly, Buckman's other son-in-law, Seth Cole, could not be with the family during this tragic time. Cole's Army unit was scheduled to deploy to Iraq. And, though he requested leave to be with the family, his request was denied.
Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius blamed ongoing National Guard deployments to the Middle East for slow and limited response to the disaster area. (Kind of reminds me of the Katrina response in the Gulf, albeit on a smaller scale.)
Remind me again how we are defending our country, fostering democracy or doing our own people much good at all after five years in Iraq.
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Oh, please! We have destroyed a semi-functioning country. We have lost over 2000 american lives, injured another 25000, and the Iraqi losses are even greater. We haven't brought stability to the region, we didn't even get any oil. We have spent billions and are no safer. The world isn't safer, fairer, nicer, etc.
It's appalling, but no longer shocking. Perhaps that is what they were counting on? Outrage can only last so long. Just so long as it lasts through 11/08...
Most curious is that Nat'l Guard service personnal could be deployed internationally at all.
I had been taught that *Reservists* could be deployed by the CiC, but that Guard personnel were under the command of their respective Governors (and one Mayor/City Council).
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