Chickenhawk Comes to SA
What a perfect day for a San Antonio protest!
"Bush plans to visit Texas today
Storm's shifting path led him to cancel Friday stop in San Antonio
12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, September 24, 2005
By G. ROBERT HILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News
SAN ANTONIO – President Bush scrubbed a stop in Texas to review disaster plans and encourage relief workers Friday when some of the rescue teams were redeployed to meet the shifting course of Hurricane Rita.
"We didn't want to slow that down," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
But during a visit just a few hours earlier to the Washington headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Bush said that he was looking forward to the Texas stop "to see the pre-positioned assets."
"One thing I won't do is get in the way," he promised a reporter who had asked whether his visit might impede operations.
Abandoning his Texas stop, Mr. Bush flew directly to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he visited the Northern Command, which manages the military response to domestic disasters.
Mr. Bush will be away from the White House today, when thousands of anti-war demonstrators plan to protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Instead, he plans to be back in Texas after the eye of Rita makes landfall, with a stop at the state emergency operations center in Austin, then fly on to Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio for the night."
"Bush plans to visit Texas today
Storm's shifting path led him to cancel Friday stop in San Antonio
12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, September 24, 2005
By G. ROBERT HILLMAN / The Dallas Morning News
SAN ANTONIO – President Bush scrubbed a stop in Texas to review disaster plans and encourage relief workers Friday when some of the rescue teams were redeployed to meet the shifting course of Hurricane Rita.
"We didn't want to slow that down," said White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
But during a visit just a few hours earlier to the Washington headquarters of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, Mr. Bush said that he was looking forward to the Texas stop "to see the pre-positioned assets."
"One thing I won't do is get in the way," he promised a reporter who had asked whether his visit might impede operations.
Abandoning his Texas stop, Mr. Bush flew directly to Colorado Springs, Colo., where he visited the Northern Command, which manages the military response to domestic disasters.
Mr. Bush will be away from the White House today, when thousands of anti-war demonstrators plan to protest the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Instead, he plans to be back in Texas after the eye of Rita makes landfall, with a stop at the state emergency operations center in Austin, then fly on to Randolph Air Force Base in San Antonio for the night."
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