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[rivka]

I want to kill someone now.

I'm supposed to work at my job and go on with my daily life, with things like this happening?

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[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I made comments about this at Making Light (there's just no way I can retype everything. Lessee if I can pull them up, and paste them here.

I was bitching about this to Maia in the shower.

I think I understand the motives for this, but I don't like the thing, at all.

The Guard is being beat up, some of it justified, some of it probably not (I'll lay long odds that had they been told to get the help there, guys would have filled their rucks with water and MREs and humped it in on foot; turned around and gone back for more. It's what I'd do if it were SF, or Bakersfield or Arcata).

The TAG can't go out and say, "This is why we fucked up" because it probably reflects badly on his superiors. So he spins it to make it seem the delay was not only unavoidable, but needful, and the results laudable.

Which is stupid, because even if he were right, it can't play that way. It might, just might, have played that way, if he had been pitching this line on the 28th of August, but now, on the 8th of Sept., not a chance in hell anyone believes him.

Better to be silent, and take the heat, than to spew bilge and be seen as a patsy, a stooge and flunkie.

There's more in the thread here

TK

[wcg.livejournal.com]

The press conference was held at the Pentagon on Sept 3rd, after LTG Blum had returned from NO on the 2nd. That is six days after the 28th, but it's also five before Sept 8th.