Say It Ain't So Already

The Cost of War

August 31, 2011 at 11:00 AM Leave a comment

Remember way, way, way back when, at the start of the war on Iraq, when Bush decided to send National Guard troops there and there was buzz about how those folks might be needed here?  Well, that scenario has come to pass, in Vermont, in the wake of the flooding from Hurricane Irene:

Eight helicopters on loan from the Illinois National Guard were expected to arrive Tuesday night in Vermont to help the Vermont National Guard deliver food, medicine, water and other supplies to 13 Vermont towns cut off from the rest of the state in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Irene.

The outside helicopter support is needed because all six of the Vermont Guard’s Black Hawk helicopters are still in Iraq, where they and 55 Vermont soldiers are wrapping up a yearlong hospital transport mission, said Lt. Lloyd Goodrow, spokesman for the Vermont Guard.

So, the “Always Ready, Always There,” Vermont National Guard is in Iraq on a “hospital transport mission.”  Again, our priorities are all screwed up.

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