TWO DISASTERS -- BUSH AND KATRINA have similar results

No food, no water, no plumbing, no electricity, looting, lack of law enforcement. Sound familiar. Well, what's going on in the U.S. south right now has been going on in Iraq for the past couple of years. And we have our vacation-prone president to thank for both.

You say Katrina was a natural disaster? Yes it was. But the aftermath could have been prevented. Due to the Iraq war he underfunded the securing of the levies that failed in New Orleans. And the reason for the cuts. When you run an inept war and give huge tax cuts to the folks that really don't need it, you've got to cut someplace. It's similar to cutting jobs to strengthen the bottom line for a corporation.

If that weren't bad enough most of the National Guard in Iraq come from the southern states that are suffering from this disaster. Along with the National Guard troops goes their equipment. Trucks, Humvees, generators, etc.

So Bush takes our National Guard and basically destroys Iraq. Then has Halliburton rebuild it. But Halliburton isn't doing a very good job of rebuilding, only getting paid. There still is $8 billion missing and we cannot yet get an investigation into where it went. Just think if you are a soldier in Iraq from New Orleans. Your family is probably one of the ones living in poverty and is in the Dome as a refugee being evacuated to the Dome in Texas. How helpless do you think that soldier must be knowing that he is part of the aid that should be there to take care of his home town not to mention his family. Instead he's up to his neck in B.S. in Iraq and his family has become refugees in the U.S. Now this is a hypothetical scenario but I think it's more typical than you'd want to think it is.

Back to Bush and his priorities. Tsunami. He acknowledges it three days after it happens and pledges a few dollars. Katrina, the largest natural disaster in our history. He acknowledges it and shortens his five week vacation by almost two days, but that's two days after the disaster. Terri Schiavo case. He leaves his Texas ranch in the middle of the night to bring Congress in session to keep the feeding tube in her. He only makes a move if it is to his political advantage and nothing less.

If people can't see this idiots true colors they are as blind as Terri Schiavo was. The longer this guy is in office the better chance that this country is going to go down in flames. Three more years . . . God help us!