Saturday, September 17, 2005

Is the Iraq War Even the Responsibility of the Feds?

Check out this satirical op/ed in The Oregonian: "A high-level WH official explained today that problems in the war in Iraq have been largely caused by state/ local govt failures. The idea that having a US Dept of Defense makes war an exclusively fedrl responsibility, he noted, is as mistaken as the impression that having a Federal Emergency Management Agency means that a fedrl agency should manage emergencies... Speaking on condition of anonymity, the WH official cited Hurricane Katrina as an example of the shortcomings of state/ local govt. Local authorities, he says, were very slow getting their troop transport helicopters, naval vessels and armored personnel carriers involved in the rescue effort. They also missed clear public-private partnership opportunities. W/ 30,000 people in the N.O.'s Superdome, he noted, nobody thought to contract for concession stands selling hot dogs, beer or T-shirts reading "I survived Katrina -- w/out fedrl interference." Man oh man, I bet Karl Rove is pissed to the gills that he didn't come up w/this spin to pass the buck, huh?
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