Not certain what to make of this -- but it's an interview with a local mortuary director in the Shelbyville (Tenn.) Times-Gazette. The mortician, Dan Buckner, is part of DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team), which is a volunteer wing of the Department of Homeland Security called in to set up morgues and process bodies in major domestic disasters. And he's been deployed to Gulfport, Miss. Bucker tells the paper that "DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies." And he goes on to say that that number does not "include the number of disinterred remains that have been displaced from ... mausoleums."Christ almighty.
But at least the Democrats aren't in charge![/kristol]
Please don't let them get away with this. Because of Republican incompetence, combined with their preexisting small-government ideology, tens of thousands of people are dead. If those numbers are right - up to 40,000 - then more Americans were killed because of Bush then all Americans killed in combat since the end of the Vietnam War. Alternately, we could say that Bush's criminal negligence has certainly killed more people than Osama bin Laden. Will the Democrats have the spine to demand Bush's head, "dead or alive"? Will they smoke him out? Given that the ranking democrat on the Homeland Securtiy Comittee is Joe Lieberman, I'm not holding my breath.
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"Because of Republican incompetence, combined with their preexisting small-government ideology, tens of thousands of people are dead."
Also, because of Democrat incompetence, combined with their preexisting small-government ideology, tens of thousands of people are dead.
Seriously, I'm really concerned that the political response will place too much blame on Bush and Repugnicans. Yes, they deserve it. But so do the Dems. Just about every US federal politician should resign in disgrace over this.
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