“This place is going to look like Little Somalia”
Somalia? That's in Africa, right?
Something doesn't smell right. This could well be the nightmare scenario. American troups killing Americans on American soil. And for what? Trying to stay alive?
“We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”
What is wrong with humanitarian relief? Why torture the soldiers like this? Indeed, why torture fellow Americans like this?
Why do I think this will be just another bad mistake?
Is the Bush mantra:
"When you find yourself in a hole...stay the course!"?
Or worse... "dig faster!"?
Just when you think things are about as bad as they can get, the current misadministration finds new lows in their incessant digging of holes to Hell.
They complain that people are shooting at them...but then they were the ones who talked the citizens into arming themselves in the first place.
In a decade of living in Boston, I never once heard a gunshot. Here in the gunbelt, I hear them on an almost daily basis.
Freaked out that citizens are well-armed? Well... who is to blame for that? Go complain to the NRA!
And Mr. Bush... you might do well to remember how public opinion shifted during the 70s, when people saw their fellow citizens attacked by uniformed police and military.
We are not at war with the people of New Orleans. We are trying to help them. Right?
“This is making a lot of us think about not reenlisting.” Ferguson [Spc. Cliff Ferguson of the 527th Engineer Battalion] said. “You have to think about whether it is worth risking your neck for someone who will turn around and shoot at you. We didn’t come here to fight a war. We came here to help.”
