After almost 5 days... Help has arrived... Finally.

Everyone who knows me knows I'm a Bush supporter. I voted for the man twice for President. The first time, he was the lesser for two idiots (sorry Gore fans but I cannot vote for someone who claimed to be the inventor of the internet), most of his views regarding pro-life, pro-death penalty, lower taxes, less government is more in line with my own. He almost immediately lowered taxes and immediately everyone in the United States saw the benefits of this in their paychecks. Then 9/11 occurred and changed everything. This single event was to define his Presidency and Bush rose up to the challenge. The search and rescue operation went into place within minutes of the disaster, FEMA immediately showed up, Bush spread a voice of calm in the chaos. I'll never forget Bush visiting what was left of the WTC, standing on top on the rubble and answering one man's call of "we can't hear you" with "I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." And hear us those motherfuckers did. I even support the Iraq War, despite the massive intelligence failures, and constant rhetoric from the Administration. I believe what we are attempting to do in Iraq is important to its citizens, the region as a whole, may assist in changing the Muslim mindset towards the US in the longterm and by bringing the fight to the terrorists there, we are keeping them from blowing up more buildings and killing more innocent people here.

Now came Katrina. At first, we all thought that New Orleans was spared as the hurricane took more of a eastern path. However by the second day in the aftermath, the levees broke and the massive flooding begun. New Orleans is under water. People are stuck in their houses, attics and rooftops with no food or way to escape. In the SuperDome and Convention Center, people are being starved to death. There is no help for the elderly, babies and the sick. Packs of armed men are running the streets shooting at the police and rescuers. Looting is out of control. Hospitals are in dire conditions, so bad that its doctors are calling the media and begging for help. One third of the New Orleans Police have turned in their badges and simply quit.

New Orleans has fallen into total anarchy amid the devastation. The scenes from the media look like scenes from Somalia or even Baghad, but no its New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America, supposely the greatest nation in the world. Well the greatest superpower can't even help its own. Almost five days it took for help to finally arrive. Help is there but too little, too late. People are still stuck in their attics or rooftops, awaiting rescue that may never come. People have died from hunger and dehydration. The entire relief effort thus far has been one big cluster fuck starting from the Mayor of New Orleans, the Governor of LA, FEMA and President Bush. Hundreds, maybe even thousands, have died on his watch. As Bush walked around Mississippi yesterday, comforting those two women, people in New Orleans were dying. As Bush toured New Orleans in his Presidential helicopter, people down below were dying. As Bush goes to sleep tonight in the White House, people in New Orleans are dying.

Where was the help on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday? Would it have made a difference if those people in New Orleans aren't black and poor? What if they are white and belonged to the middle or high class? I understand the logistical problems, but surely more could have been done. Within two days of the Tsunami, we had people in southeast Asia. We moved soldiers and equipment all over the world. We have landed men on the moon. We have two robotic rovers on Mars and the little spacecraft that could, Voyager 1 and 2, are both reached our soalr system's final frontier. But yet, despite these grand achievements, we cannot rescue our own people of New Orleans. Thinking about this more and more makes me sick. I'm done.