So much is lost, so much disharmony...

This is pulled, verbatim, from Lone Primate's blog. he got it from counterpunch, the address is here as well. Interesting, true...and sad.

How New Orleans was Lost: Another Terrible Casualty of the Iraq War
From an article by Paul Craig Roberts on CounterPunch:

Chalk up the city of New Orleans as a cost of Bush's Iraq war.There were not enough helicopters to repair the breeched levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guards available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting... The National Guard and helicopters are off on a fools mission in Iraq...Now the Guardsmen, trapped in the Iraqi quagmire, are watching on TV the families they left behind trapped by rising waters and wondering if the floating bodies are family members. None know where their dislocated families are, but, shades of Fallujah, they do see their destroyed homes...Why can't the US government focus on America's needs and leave other countries alone? Why are American troops in Iraq instead of protecting our own borders from a mass invasion by illegal immigrants? Why are American helicopters blowing up Iraqi homes instead of saving American homes in New Orleans?...All Bush has achieved by invading Iraq is to kill and wound thousands of people while destroying America's reputation. The only beneficiaries are oil companies capitalizing on a good excuse to jack up the price of gasoline and Osama bin Laden's recruitment.What we have is a Republican war for oil company profits while New Orleans sinks beneath the waters.

Read the rest here.

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