Rumsfeld is now pushing this idea: the local emergency people, being victims of the natural disaster themselves, “needed some time” to adjust to their “personal” situations and were “unable to respond” and this was the reason for the terrible delays. Eventually, his wonderful DoD stepped in under lickety-split orders from the heroic Bush (on Friday), and relieved the beleaguered local emergency folks, who had been totally ineffective and AWOL from day one.
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