Is Isabel going to be worse because of Iraq?

[Pale Blue Dot]

From an MSNBC article about the storm:

Isabel was bearing down at a time when government agencies and private charities were especially ill-prepared to respond.
Military officials told NBC News that the National Guard, traditionally a major component of disaster responses, could be hamstrung because so many members are on active duty in Iraq and other hot spots.
Units in Virginia and the Carolinas are especially depleted, officials said, and those states may be forced to request assistance from neighboring states that will also be struggling with Isabel’s aftermath.
Lt. Col. Pete Brooks, a spokesman for the South Carolina National Guard, said more than a fifth of the state’s Army National Guard and Air Guard members were deployed to Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/961894.asp

Are we ever going to stop finding ways to pay for *Bush's actions?

[Melsky]

1. Most expensive administration ever!

Are we ever going to stop finding ways to pay for *Bush's actions?

We will be paying for this, in one way or another, for the rest of our lives. Sad to have to pay for something that is not our fault.

So we are using resources for his crony capitalist war that we need for disaster relief in our country? Oh well, too bad for us.

[uptohere]

2. lucky that it seems to be winding down then

maybe just knock a few million dollar beach houses into the sea and rain a lot.

[Mairead]

3. We can stop all this by electing Dennis Kucinich

He's no pacifist, but he's dead set against imperialist adventurism. If he were in office right now, we would not have invaded Iraq, nor would we have the anti-Constitutional Guantanamo boondoggle going on. It's at least possible that we wouldn't even have suffered 911.