"DSK" wrote in message
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So how was Bush supposed to handle the Katrina crisis?


By sending people other than the National Guard

LOL. So who are these imaginary people that you would send? The military is
off-limits thanks to Posse Comitatus, and the National Guard is off-limits
thanks to Gov. Blanco's refusal to hand them over to the President.

Where would you find the people you speak of?





I look forward to how you'd have handled things differently.


Let's put it this way... the U.S. Coast Guard was *there* that very
afternoon.


The Commandant of the Coast Guard reports directly to Homeland Security.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Org_Chart.jpg

The Coast Guard was transferred from the Dept. of Transportation to the DHS
on March 1st, 2003:
http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/comrel/factfile/index.htm

Katrina hit 2 years later.

Good try though!