Q: Am I the only one that looks at the devistation and thinks of Iraq?

Just wondering...

Anybody else out there, when you see the pictures of destroyed homes, people in despair, no clean water or electricity, dead bodies in the streets, streets flooded with raw sewage, and U.S. National Guards troops with guns pointed at looters... think of Iraq?

What do you think it would be like in New Orleans if it is still like this two and a half years from now? Do you think there'd be an "insurgency"?
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PS: 3,000 dead on 9/11. 2,000 dead troops in Iraq. 10,000 dead from Katrina. Perhaps 15,000 dead Americans in less than five years as a DIRECT result of this Administrations incompetency. And he still has three more years to go. If anyone still supports this President, you're no longer just a Partisan, you're now an Idiologue.

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If they had a decent number of guard troops from the beginning, the situation never would have gotten as bad as it did.

Up until just before it hit, they were thinking it was going to make landfall as a cat 5. A CAT 5 for chrissakes. They could have looked at the damage Charley caused last year, figured the storm was 3 times that size, the windfield was larger, and it was moving slower so it was going to dump a whole lot more rain. This isn't fucking rocket science.

They couldn't predict Al Queda would use planes as missiles,which was foretold. They couldn't predict the insurgency in Iraq, which was foretold by Bush 41. They couldn't predict the levees would break, or what damage a storm could cause. Every fucking weatherman has been talking about this for years. I have seen it on a documentary.

If troops would have had a presence right away, most people would not have fucking starved, and not as many people would have looted. Now, you leave people without the bottom of the hierarcy of needs pyramid, and gee, they are scared of them. The people are without homes, without food and water! No fucking wonder they are angry.

But, northern command was waiting for word from Bush, who didn't send the paperwork needed to get more troops in until Thursday. In the meantime, the NG that was there was told not to let aid trucks from the Red Cross in.

This is fucking sickening.

I couldn't believe it when Bush finally went on TV Wednesday afternoon, two days after landfall, to ask for the survivors to be patient because "it takes a while for rescue ships and helicopters to make their way South from Virgina."

WHY WEREN'T THEY DISPATCHED BEFORE THE HURRICANE HIT??? IT'S NOT LIKE WE DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS COMMING!!! I can't believe this Administrations' incompetency.

God help us here in Houston if we're hit next!

The similarities are striking. Rabid incompetence for one, lack of regard for people without white skin for another.

ravaged countries by seasoned reporter earlier today. Didn't catch his name (I was dozing) but he had seen all of these ravaged countries and he was very emotional about NO.

I've been thinking the last few days that if reporters were on the ground
and in the air in Iraq like the were in NOLA, and people counld actually
SEE what we are doing in Iraq, the demands that the war be stopped
would be deafening.