Hurricane Katrina

The desperation given eloquent voice by Mayor Ray Nagin of New Orleans speaks to the ineffectual leadership in Washington. It's unfortunate that Nagin is not sitting in the White House rather than in a city in ruins.

Bush took advantage of 9/11 to rationalize his looting and conquest of Iraq. He led us into a pointless war against a country that had not attacked us, and has wasted billions of dollars and thousands of barrels of innocent blood to portray himself as a patriotic "wartime president" while pursuing imperialist objectives in the Middle East.