Pentagon: Too much sympathy for the victims

http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002341.html


We heard this on CNN (on satellite radio) last night while we were driving home and almost ran off the road. It was an exchange between anchor Aaron Brown and Jamie McIntyre, CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent, about the military seeking to explain it's slow response to Katrina:

MCINTYRE: And as to your question about political, I talked to a lot of people at the Pentagon today who were very frustrated about the fact that the perception was being created that the military didn't move fast enough. And they did it somewhat as political. They thought that part of the motivation was the critics of the administration to make the president look bad.

And they seemed to question the motives of some of our reporters who were out there and hearing these stories from the victims about why they had so much sympathy for the victims, and not as much sympathy for the challenges that the government met in meeting this challenge.

And I have to say thinking about that, it doesn't really seem all that unusual that you would tend to understand the plight of the victims a little more than the bureaucrats in Washington.

BROWN: Yes, I mean, I'm glad you told us that. And they have every right to believe they believe and think the way they think. I mean, and I mean that. But you've got people who have been living as refugees. It is not hard to understand why our first heart beat goes in their direction. We'll worry about the bureaucrats later.

Amen. It's one thing to argue that it's too early to debate who or what is to blame for the human tragedy in New Orleans and Mississippi (although we don't agree). It's something else to blame the victims, as we see here and from FEMA chief David Brown, who said yesterday that the high death toll is "going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings."

Reprehensible.
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I dare say it's a lot less than the thousands of flood victims.

Compassionate conservatives my ass.

house, that's atoned for all their sins. Imagine that - a weasel like trent lott - making the supreme sacrifice so all their faces can be saved...

VISUALIZE IMPEACHMENT!!!!!
Then go DO something about it.

you have got to be kidding!!!! They are so WARPED that they can't look past themselves. UNbelievable.

Let me tell you somthing, every word that Mr. Brown utters that does not have to do with real actions and relief ... should be taken with a grain of salt... this man was not qualified for this job and he subsequently has shown that to be true. HE was on the ground very quickly, but what did he achieve in all this time?

This man is like every other political appointee of Bush's, insufficient pratical knowledge of this organization and his purpose was to dismantle that very organization by virtue of his inexperience and the results since his appearance.

I am really hoping to have a more knowledgable critical public... we really need to demand for accountability for the criminal negligence shown in the past 5 years. I am sickened that something like this would happen before people would have to wake up (if they even manage to stay this way until things change).

more specifically, their earning potential as a measure of benefit to society. It's sick but true.

stood for this shit.

There's nothing more pathetic than a General in tears....

When they KNEW that Katrina was coming and when, where it was going, and what it was going to do to NOLA. This wasn't some random tornado or surprise terrist attack, but they keep repeating this mantra of "we didn't know what to expect".

The people of NOLA need help more than they do.