War on Terror Costing Support for War on Drugs

[slim 1,533]

The war on beer has already begun here in Cincinnati.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

The war on beer has already begun here in Cincinnati.

Well, there should be some relief on the beer front as I am leaving town soon. That'll decrease the demand some. Possibly enough to bring the price down a cent or two on the pint. For anyone in the Tampa area: Better stock up before I get there...

[Artegal 1]

Michael Moore was asking in his open letter to Mr. Bush shortly after hurricane Katrina...

Where are all of our helicopters that we could've used to evacuate the victims?

Turns out they weren't in Iraq after all. They were in the Bahamas.

I'm not going to worry too much about drugs getting in through Florida. That new Miami Vice movie comes out soon, so as long as the drug-runners know Crocket and Tubbs are on the case, they'll be too scared to move weight anyway.

Well it was only 7 Choppers in the Bahamas.

But as far as what the Military support for Katrina was I found this tidibit:

Timeline of Military Deployments for Katrina Disaster Relief

Wednesday, 31 August 2005

• National Guard: 10,000 in LA, MS, AL, FL

• Navy: 7 ships staged or en route (with 6,000 active duty personnel)

Thursday, 1 September 2005

• National Guard: 13,000 in LA, MS, AL, FL

o 4,700 in LA; 2,700 in MS

• Navy: USS Truman (CVN 75) and USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) preparing for departure

Friday, 2 September 2005

• National Guard: 22,000 in LA, MS, AL, FL

o 6,500 in New Orleans

• Army Corp of Engineers: 400 on site in New Orleans

• Navy: USS Truman and USS Whidbey en route to Gulf Coast; USS Bataan and HSV2 Swift

providing support off Gulf coastline; Navy Bureau of Medicine has contributed 85 personnel

including 12 surgeons and physicians.

• Air Force: Helicopters: 35; aircraft used: C-5 Galaxy, C-17 Globemaster III, C-141 Starlifter,

C-130 Hercules

Saturday, 3 September 2005

• President orders 7,000 additional troops deployed

Monday, 5 September 2005

• National Guard: 38,000

• Active Duty Forces: 13,000

• Navy: USS Truman operating south of Mississippi; amphibious ship pier side in New Orleans;

21 ships total; USS Iwo Jima (amphibious ship) enroute

• Department of Defense: 300 helicopters

Wednesday, 7 September 2005

• Active duty and National Guard Forces: 58,000

o National Guard: 41,000

o Active duty: 17,000 (from 82nd Airborne, 1st Cavalry, and 1st and 2nd Marine

Expeditionary Force)

• Navy: 7,000 personnel operating off 21 naval ships south of Mississippi and Louisiana

• Coast Guard: 4,000

• Department of Defense, Coast Guard and National Guard: 350 helicopters, 75 fixed wing

aircraft, 2 C-130 firefighting aircraft deployed to New Orleans• 300,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen available for relief and security efforts in the

United States

At the height of rescue operations, the Coast Guard had at least 62 aircraft, 30 cutters and 111 small boats assisting in rescue and recovery operations. Approximately one-third of the Coast Guard’s entire air fleet was deployed to the region to support rescue operations in the immediate aftermath of the storm

More than 5,290 Coast Guard personnel conducted search-and-rescue operations, waterway reconstitution and environmental assessment operations. More than 400 Coast Guard reservists were recalled to active duty.

By Sept. 11, 2005, the Coast Guard had rescued more than 24,000 people and assisted with the joint-agency evacuation of an additional 9,400 patients and medical personnel from hospitals in the Gulf coast region. More than 33,520 lives were saved and evacuated, including:

o 12,533 lives saved by air resources

o 11,584 lives saved by surface resources

o 9,403 patients evacuated from hospital

I think Michael Moore makes some entertaining social commentaries--but he is pretty loose with the facts in his commentaries.

[Ban Hammer 13,898]

I think Michael Moore makes some entertaining social commentaries--but he is pretty loose with the facts in his commentaries.

i expect nothing less from him

coming soon to a theater near you

"farenheit 10 feet deep"

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

In any case, I think we should write off the "war on drugs", seeing as regime change in Afghanistan hasn't changed their national export

and the war on drugs was nothing but PR....most drugs..meth..sweet lucy..etc are america made

Yup. The drug prohibition is no different than alcohol prohibition was. It drive the price up and makes the gangsters/cartels rich.

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Guess its too late to open a 3rd front: The War on War

Yup well said

maria