And while we're on the topic of patriotism and all that, I find it hilarious that people start off by saying how much they love their country, yet their fellow citizens were at fault because they were told to evacuate. I wish I could find it as funny that some people think the only reason people are so focused on Katrina is because it could be construed as a race issue. Are you kidding me??

I personally believe that the gov't failed to respond because these were poor communities. Everyone gets caught up in New Orleans cuz the levees broke there. But people all over the gulf coast, in Louisiana and Mississippi, were affected by the storm, needed gov't assistance, and were left to rot. Their homes and communities have not been rebuilt either. When I look at the victims of Katrina I see all kinds of faces, not just black ones, so what the fuck are ya'll talking bout?

In general though, what does it really matter? I don't care if they were white, black, brown, yellow....fuck, green people. I don't care if they were rich, poor, educated or not. All I know is that day after day after day, I had to watch my fellow Americans dying on American soil while our gov't did nothing. I guess all you America-lovers weren't really affected by that.

GreatSpirit may be off but he did say one smart thing - "the handeling of Katrina doesn't make for good propaganda either." Even if you don't care about people dying, do you care about ur precious nation's image? Cuz it seems to me that a country that can't (or won't) even take care of its own, is not a country to fear. How can we ever win "the war on terror" when we show time and time again that we are inadequate at even protecting ourselves or adequately running our govt?