| Frogger me old fruit, I've got quite a few friends and acquaintances both Yankees and Reb's, Harley riders as well as Fireblade toting street bandits, if you'd read my post you'd know where my sympathies lie mate, with everyone suffering everywhere, whether that's from the devastation in New Orleans or from the First invasion of Iraq years before 9/11. The people in New Orleans chose to stay even when they had been made clearly aware that their lives were in mortal danger and they had the option to get out, those innocent members of a populace who died with the guilty because Blair and Bush wanted to prevent Saddam (yes he was a butcher) holding us hostage over his countries oil, didnt have that choice, they just died.
Edited to add:- Why were the levee's around New Orleans not fortified years ago when the city (army) engineers said it was necessary? G Dubbya apparently refused the funding to pay for the 2nd Invasion of Iraq.
Why was New Orleans so vulnerable? Decades of destruction of natural coastal defences to make way for human development.
It's not only the Dutch that should take note, quite a bit of southern England is at or near sea level and sinking.
[Edited on 2-9-2005 by psychlist]  |