After 7 years of Bush, should we feel safer yet?
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Wally
12:46 PM
US military not adequately prepared for homeland attack, report says
The U.S. military isn't ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and National Guard forces don't have the equipment or training they need for the job, according to a report.
Even fewer Army National Guard units are combat-ready today than were nearly a year ago when the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves determined that 88 percent of the units were not prepared for the fight, the panel says in a new report released Thursday.
The commission's 400-page report concludes that the nation "does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available" to respond to a chemical, biological or nuclear weapons incident, "an appalling gap that places the nation and its citizens at greater risk."
"Right now we don't have the forces we need, we don't have them trained, we don't have the equipment," commission Chairman Arnold Punaro said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Even though there is a lot going on in this area, we need to do a lot more.... There's a lot of things in the pipeline, but in the world we live in - you're either ready or you're not." Maybe this is why we don't hear Gee Dubya saying "Bring 'em on" much lately.
Mission Accomplished
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