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Originally posted by bold_n_brazen
From cnn.com:
The commanding general in charge of the relief effort in New Orleans was directing the operation from a street corner. He told the troops, part of a deployment of 1,000 members of the National Guard, to make sure they kept their guns down. (See video of the convoy roll through floodwaters -- 3:33)
"A few moments ago, he stopped a truck full of National Guard Troops ... and said, 'Point your weapons down, this is not Iraq,'" said CNN's Barbara Starr who is traveling with the three-star general.
"He is very determined to keep this looking like a humanitarian relief operation," Starr said."
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Also should include the paragraph following the two ltl/fb gave:
Lt. Gen. Steven Blum of the National Guard said 7,000 National Guardsmen and women arriving in Louisiana on Friday would be dedicated to restoring order in New Orleans.
He said half of them had just returned from assignments overseas and are "highly proficient in the use of lethal force." He pledged to "put down" the violence "in a quick and efficient manner."
"But they are coming here to save Louisiana citizens. The only thing we are attacking is the effects of this hurricane," he said. Blum said that a huge airlift of supplies was landing Friday.
