Reply #6: I found it: Northern Command waiting for Orders!! Adm. Keating on CNN [View All]

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I found it: Northern Command waiting for Orders!! Adm. Keating on CNN


I actually saw this and finally found it at the Salon.com War Room!!!!
As of 3:14 PM on August 31 (Wed) Northern Commmand was still waiting for orders!!!!! from the Gov of LA and BUSH.

Which gets us into that whole mess of what did Blanco request...saw a Dem rep on Nightline last night getting crapped on by Koppel about how someone "didn't ask." This Congressman (a man, starts with an M?) said the proper procedures had been followed...he was thoroughly exasperated...


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Bush is back

The cable networks have just carried a live feed of Air Force One landing at Andrews Air Force Base. The president strode smartly down the steps of plane, saluting a couple of military officers with one hand while holding his Scottish terrier in the other.
The commander in chief is back in command, and not a minute too soon. The mayor of New Orleans just said that the death toll in his city is "minimum, hundreds," and "mostly likely, thousands." He said that there are a "significant number of dead bodies in the water," and that New Orleans will not be "functional" for a matter of months.
What will the president do now that he's back in Washington? He'll give a televised speech from the White House at 5 p.m., and he may contemplate sending active-duty U.S. soldiers to New Orleans to help stop looting there. Appearing on CNN, Adm. Timothy Keating, the chief of the U.S. Northern Command, said he's awaiting a request from the governor of Louisiana and an order from the president of the United States.