Home is Where the Levee Is

A mounting local insurgency, lawlessness, shortages of food and water, lack of electricity - the remaining residents of New Orleans would be better off right now if they were in Iraq. Think there's no connection between W's war and the disaster wrought by Hurricane Katrina? You need to read this: Why the Levee Broke While W read through a list of emergency supplies being sent to Louisiana and Mississippi, he failed to mention the millions in federal aid that he denied to agencies working to better secure the gulf coast area before this latest hurricane rammed ashore. Homeland security? How about starting at home.