On 8/31/2005 the Rude One posted the following…
The Hurricane Exit Strategy:
“At some point here, some wise, ambitious, and none-too-cynical member of Congress, perhaps Chuck Hagel, perhaps Russ Feingold, needs to say the obvious: Hurricane Katrina offers the ultimate exit strategy from Iraq. What other excuse need there be to pull vast numbers of troops and billions of dollars out of our overseas failure?”
“The patently absurd waste of billions of dollars will be brought to light by the suffering along the Gulf Coast. A couple of months from now, whenever some worthless, stupid right-wing …. puppet declares that the U.S. has built schools in Basra, it’ll simply be a reminder of how much faster things could have been done in Biloxi if all those funds and all that personnel were readily available.” and more…
Meanwhile Hugo Chavez offers help from Venezuela… food, water and fuel.