This morning I saw some footage of Lt. General Russell Honore, who is directing the National Guard in the Hurricane areas. It was wonderful to see if not three days late. He is a classic military man saying "Over" in his interviews and he was marching through New Orleans telling the soldiers to point their guns down saying, "This isn't Iraq, Soldier!". When he took some New Orleans policemen (I'm being generous unless New Orleans started hiring 17 year old, puberty-mustache wearing, gun toting, boys as Officers) to task for their crazy offensive stances with guns on the back of a pick-up, he received a loud round of applause by the people standing on the side of the street waiting to be evacutated. Oh wait... I know what that was... Leadership! Imagine that!
Of course, if Bush keeps up his weirding ways FEMA director Michael Brown will get a Medal of Freedom award after this and Honore will be bucked down to a coffee-making private. We'll see.
Posted by dmason at September 3, 2005 09:36 AM