I can't even begin to express my disappointment in this country's leadership. Billions of dollars have gone into preventing an outside attack from destroying our country, but when a natural disaster hits, it takes a week before any serious action is taken. Today Bush sent in the National Guard to "restore order" into New Orleans.. after thousands of corpses lie in the streets of the city, after women were raped, after disease is running rampant in the waters which are soaking the remaining refugees.

He refuses to withdraw troops from Iraq to send to New Orleans. This morning in an interview on one of those morning shows he stated, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." Yet in 2001 when the Federal Emergency Management Agency warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.

His approval ratings are the lowest of his presidency at 45% as of today. With this debacle of a rescue attempt, and the costs of fuel which have skyrocketed and affected everyone, I hope America will wake up and remember this in the 2008 election.

From a craigslist post: There's a line in a Hazel Dickens song that goes, "Working people get help from your own kind because your welfare ain't on a rich man's mind." It seems we have no choice now.