A ‘Ragin’ Cajun’ general back on the job

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Once tasked with cleaning up after Hurricane Katrina in his native Louisiana, retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré will now probe what he has called the ‘stupid or ignorant or complicit’ security failings of the Jan. 6 riot

U.S. Army Lieutenant General Russel Honore talks on a mobile phone at a check point in Cameron Prairie on Sept. 25, 2005, after Hurricane Rita hit coastal communities in Texas and Louisiana.Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant-General Russel Honoré is a man known for bootstrapping himself up from humble beginnings into the highest echelons of the world’s most powerful fighting force while overcoming the racial chasms that divided his country.

On Jan. 6, five people died when an angry mob overran the Capitol. Lawmakers were temporarily forced to flee the vote to ratify Joe Biden’s victory in last year’s U.S. presidential election. The insurrectionists, prodded by then-president Donald Trump’s tweets alleging electoral fraud, telegraphed their plans. Yet they encountered faint resistance as they stormed the building.

In 2005, the army dispatched the general, a native of Louisiana, to New Orleans as commander of Joint Task Force Katrina.

 

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Truely a man that still lives in the realities of life, now if we only had more like him, and we sure as heck could use a couple of dozen like him here in Canada to counter the Cinderella running this country

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