"Mr. Bill was better informed than Mr. Bush?"
Mary Landrieu, on the senate floor. Mr. Bill is the claymatin figure from Sat. nite live.

La. Senator Returns to Capitol to Denounce Bush - New York Times: "'How can it be,' she asked, 'that Mr. Bill was better informed than Mr. Bush?'"

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Here's a nice story, it's the chief of the National Guard, Steven Blum, explaining why it took so long to get to the Convention Center, in language suitable for helping civilians in an enemy country, say Iraq. He doesn't explain why no food or water was given to the people while they waited for this liberation force to arrive:


We waited until we had enough force in place to do an overwhelming force. Went in with police powers, 1,000 National Guard military policemen under the command and control of the adjutant general of the State of Louisiana, Major General Landreneau, yesterday shortly after noon stormed the convention center, for lack of a better term, and there was absolutely no opposition, complete cooperation, and we attribute that to an excellent plan, superbly executed with great military precision. It was rather complex. It was executed absolutely flawlessly in that there was no violent resistance, no one injured, no one shot, even though there were stabbed, even though there were weapons in the area. There were no soldiers injured and we did not have to fire a shot.

Some people asked why didn't we go in sooner. Had we gone in with less force it may have been challenged, innocents may have been caught in a fight between the Guard military police and those who did not want to be processed or apprehended, and we would put innocents' lives at risk. As soon as we could mass the appropriate force, which we flew in from all over the states at the rate of 1,400 a day, they were immediately moved off the tail gates of C-130 aircraft flown by the Air National Guard, moved right to the scene, briefed, rehearsed, and then they went in and took this convention center down.

Those that were undesirable to re-enter the convention center were segregated from the people that we wanted to provide water, shelter and food. Those people were processed to make sure they had no weapons, no illicit dugs, no alcohol, no contraband, and then they were escorted back into the building. Now there's a controlled safe and secure environment and a shelter and a haven as they await movement out of that center for onward integration to their normal lives."