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Gnomemoot 0: Iran - what is the problem? | 194 comments (194 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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Blackwater was in New Orleans.

I smell the stink of praetorians on this hired killers.

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 09:07:06 AM EST
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Did you think I didn't notice?

Another detail: first they hijack the National Guard for duty in Iraq, for which they are neither trained nor equipped. Then they claim the NG is ill equipped and undermanned to take care of disaster management in NOLA, and that "maybe the federal government and the military should take over disaster relief in the future".

Remember, in a hypothetical scenario in which states rebel against the federal government, on whose side is the loyalty of the National Guard (mostly Police and Firefighters looking for an extra buck)?

But now they have planted it in everyone's psyche that the NG is incompetent and that the Army (and Blackwater) should be in charge of disaster relief.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 09:26:34 AM EST
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Indeed, in general, the idea left to hang in the air post-Katrina is that federal government services are a total wash-out and only the military can be trusted. Which corresponds to the small-government view that security and enforcement capacities, at home and abroad, are the essential preoccupation of government.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Fri Feb 17th, 2006 at 11:00:07 AM EST
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Gnomemoot 0: Iran - what is the problem? | 194 comments (194 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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