Gen. Honore: Blanco requested troops "as the hurricane was approaching,"

Thanks to media matters!

As Gen. Russel Honoré, commander of the Department of Defense's (DoD) Joint Task Force Katrina, stated in a September 1 briefing,
the governors of Louisiana and Mississippi had requested additional assistance from the federal government "as the hurricane was approaching," beginning with a request on August 26 that DoD command centers be set up in their states. And by August 28, Mississippi and Louisiana were collaborating with the National Guard Bureau to have additional security forces sent in.

From the September 1 Department of Defense briefing:

LAWRENCE DiRITA (Pentagon spokesman): You know -- it's Larry DiRita -- I think what people are interested in, if you know, is when specifically or if indeed did the governors specifically ask for additional security forces and when that might have been? And if you don't know that, we'll try and find it, but that would be -- I think that's a little more refined aspect of what the reporter's asking for.

HONORÉ: Yeah, that was incremental. The security force piece was executed through a process called EMAC . That started on Sunday, a collaboration between the adjutant general and the National Guard Bureau to flow additional capabilities to Louisiana and to Mississippi. That flow started approximately around Sunday. Forces started moving once the eye of the hurricane had passed and we could start moving forces in and assist the states, Alabama pushed forces into Mississippi as well as forces from Texas started to flow into Louisiana, as well as other states. But that's the approximate phase of the operation. Again, that was executed through National Guard arrangements to move National Guard capability where it's needed. And that is what is happening, an extension of that, now.

it did NOT include Orleans Parish and Jefferson Parish and others that were the hardest hit....something is fishy about that! "yeah, we declared a state of emergency, but it didn't include Orleans, so we still needed a request from Blanco..." I can hear that statement coming...what a bunch of ass-coverers these people are.

The emergency Bush was declaring was that "poor" blacks were trying to evacuate into the rethug terroirty of Louisiana.

the looting hordes are coming.


Soon we would have border checks throughout the country. Our national security would have necessitated it.

being done on DU to compile all of these truths. Thank you!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4709228

Questioning why someone in the pentagon had been placed in charge of the disaster - before the storm even hit.

I should check now while we still have search capabilities.