I think you miss the point. Yes, it is true that more Americans have died in car accidents in the last 6 years than in Iraq, but that's just it -- we're talking about Americans.

It frustrates me when Americans talk as if only 4000 people have died in Iraq. Four thousand American soldiers are dead, and that does not include allies, journalists, and non-military personnel.

And it does not include Iraqis. Probably at least 300,000 Iraqis have died, but we don't know the exact number because the Pentagon, conveniently, doesn't count. It is estimated that 2.5 million Iraqis have fled the country fearing for their lives. Worst of all, most of this 2.5 million (now possibly the largest refugee population on earth) are Christians driven out by Islamic extremists. Which means our biggest legacy in Iraq could be that we ended freedom of religion for Christians there. Now there's irony for you.

The hole Garrison also talks about is the hole of national credibility we have dug for ourselves in waging an unjustified pre-emptive war. The small countries in the world will not soon forget that Americans are asserting the right to overturn governments they deem tyrannical, which could easily be any third world nation, any day of the week.

We were once looked up to, and now we are despised. I have no doubt our children will pay the price for this loss of national respect.

Sorry. Didn't mean to rant, but that's how I see it.

"As for the funds for the people of Louisiana. What about the rest of us that work hard everyday to buy the insurance that is required to own a home? Why are the people of Louisiana not held to the same standards? And what about the rest of the people in Mississippi and Alabama that are still suffering from Katrina?"

Why don't you just go back to your crackpipe? You have no idea what you are talking about. I lived in New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina, and had the max flood insurance I could get. The New Orleans Times Picayune pointed out the year after the storm that almost 70% of New Orleanians did the same. This was one of the highest rates of insurance coverage of any flood prone area in the U.S. (New Orleans Times Picayune, March 19, 2006, front page). The idea that the city was full of people too lazy to pay insurance is a blatant lie.

Alabama was barely touched by Katrina compared to Louisiana. Louisiana lost 200,000 homes in the storm, and Mississippi probably lost 50-60,000. Over about 400,000 Mississippians were affected by Katrina, while in Louisiana the number was well over 1 million. It only stands to reason the Louisiana would get the lion's share of the aid, since it sustained the lion's share of the damage.

In the area where I lived, 100% of the 68,000 residents of St. Bernard Parish lost their homes. One single parish (i.e., county) in LA sustained 25% of the damage of the entire state of Mississippi.

More to the point, the damage in Louisiana was caused by poor planning on the part of the U.S. government. Louisiana didn't ask to have the river hemmed in by levees. This was done to protect the navigation of the river for cities further inland. In fact, the residents of St. Bernard Parish sued the federal government to stop development of a shipping channel in the 1950s over flooding concerns, and a federal judge threw the case out, saying there was no flood risk.

I live in Mississippi now. The governor of this state recently succeeded in diverting $600 million in Katrina money earmarked for low cost housing to rebuilding the Port of Gulfport. With the kind of scrutiny Louisiana has been under, Louisiana could never dream of getting away with such a thing, but Haley Barbour was the former GOP National Committee Chairman, and he gets to play by a separate set of rules. (Don't believe me? Go here: http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080509/NEWS/805090364/1001/news)

Unless Barbour stops this shenanigans there is no reason to give Mississippi any more federal money.

Everybody in America has a throwaway comment about Hurricane Katrina. But if you don't know the facts, you need to keep your mouth closed or at least talk about something you know.

The beauty of this whole thing is that it shows how backwards Fox really is. In the days before blogging, they would have gotten away with this crap. Today, they never will. Read that again, Foxes: Never.

You can't pull this stuff in the YouTube era. You will not get away with it. Old fools need not apply in today's media.

Thanks for the laugh. With this kind of foolishness, Fox will be dead or competing against E! in ten years.