National Guard Sees Parallels to Baghdad

[tocqueville]

By ROBERT TANNER, AP National Writers
1 hour, 6 minutes ago

NEW ORLEANS - A month ago, this steamy riverfront offered Michael Rogers a much-needed vacation after a year's tour in Iraq. His head was spinning when he returned in his National Guard uniform, unable to shake the similarities to his time on the streets of Baghdad.

An angry crowd. A hot blazing sun. A murky mixture of resentment and gratitude.

He took a break in the shade Friday, smoking a cigarette as hundreds of newly homeless lined up outside the downtown convention center for the basics they'd gone without for days — food and water. Emergency shelter was uncertain, and home either gone or underwater.

"This right here I'd have to say is very similar to Iraq, the way the people are — hungry, very angry," said Rogers, a 33-year-old specialist.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050903/ap_on_re_us/katrina_echoes_of_iraq

[Rainscents]

1. Yep... he is right on!

[TheFriar]

2. the other similarity

is it was totally unecessary.

[tocqueville]

3. Imagine the guys in Iraq reading that stuff...

they have Yahoo there too...

[applegrove]

4. They were 15 years too late in Baghdad too! Amazing how things

get worse

before you lift a finger to make them better

Grover forgot to mention in the bathtub analogy..the part about the drain at the bottom that nobody bothers to plug. Man things just start spinning when you do that while you are drowning governance.