FACING THE TRUTH: Most of the reason for the chaos in New Orleans and elsewhere is happening because the National Guard is in Iraq. We have nobody to protect US. We only have enough to protect Iraqis. I think it's time to say "fuck you, Iraq" and get enough guys home to control things. It is in no way excuseable to have no portable toilets for people, to have no drinking water dropped from the air for people, to rely on the Red Cross to do what the National Guard should be doing. Bush should, and will, bear the responsibility for not acting, for not having the ability to act because of resources stretched too thin, and for his robotic behavior which seems aimed more at photo ops than actual action. Totally absurd to abandon those people at the Dome in New Orleans. I'm a Republican but I'm not a fucking moron. I don't place blame on budget cutting and land development and things that took place over the past few years other than to put the National Guard in places where they don't really belong to fight a war that was not planned for. Depressed at TV News shots? You bet. Angry? You bet even more. This is an inept president. Period.

Next: photographs of Bush flying in a helicopter to Beloxi to place bets at the casinos.