Make levees, not war

Here are more photos from the Lower 9th Ward. When the levee breaches occurred, the water entered this neighborhood with such force that cars were overturned and houses were knocked off their foundations and pushed around.

As mentioned in my posts last week, for all intents and purposes the NO tourist areas are OK. However, it's upsetting that other neighborhoods still look like this 10 months after Katrina. This is happening right now in America -- so it makes no sense that so much of the country's resources are currently being dedicated to efforts like Iraq and preventing people in Mexico from emigrating illegally to the US.