Wednesday, August 31, 2005

 
village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway:
In this hurricane, the one government agency on the ball is the Coast Guard, a highly decentralized agency now stuck within the Homeland Security maze. With only 40 aircraft, it pulled off over 1,000 rescues yesterday.

The state-run National Guard is meant to be on call for such dire emergencies. And 7,500 members of the Guard were dispatched to help out in the aftermath of the hurricane. But 35 percent of Louisiana's Guard and 40 percent of Mississippi's Guard are in Iraq.

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