We should have waited

Critics Say Bush Undercut New Orleans Flood Control: "Is the National Guard 'depleted because so many Guard are in Iraq that we don't have the opportunity to activate civil control?' asked Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.). 'That question has to be asked.' Almost one in three National Guardsmen in Louisiana is serving in Iraq or war-related efforts, according to the National Guard."

I will first say I was misled as anyone, that the need to go and get Sadaam was because he had weapons that could fall into the hands of terrorists. However, I want to know why we allowed that thinking to deplete our homeland security to the point where a Natural disaster is going to be much more devastating than it could have been. The sad part of all this is not that we were unprepared, but that Bush has been undermining protection at home for a war that is going to take years to end. We should have waited till we had backing from other nations, to carry the load. We should have waited till we were ABSOLUTELY certain the intelligence reports were valid. We should have waited till we could build up the military for this undertaking instead of sending the National Guard, which was not designed for this type of war. We should have waited till we had built up some resereves in oil and money. The history of this administration is one gaffe after another. People are dying in Iraq and in America because Bush wanted to please his Dad.