Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld today called the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina the greatest disaster recovery effort in American history, and said claims that the military could not help ravished areas quicker because it is stretched thin by wars overseas are "flat wrong." When it comes to helping civil authorities deal with the aftermath of Katrina and prosecuting the global war on terrorism, "we can and will do both," he told reporters at a Pentagon briefing, echoing remarks President...
