"More could be done to better secure or eliminate nuclear weapons, material and technology to prevent terrorists from developing and exploding nuclear or dirty bombs....These are just a few proposals that would have represented a better investment in America's security than the...Iraq "war of choice." http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/08/b171440.html
No thinking person disputes the oppressive nature of Saddam Hussein's regime and also understands that Iraq was not involved in the planning or execution of the September 11 attacks and Iraq did not have a collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaida. But, American army bases in Afghanistan and Iraq are based all along the oil pipe line and we the people have a homeland that is under-funded.
Our sister and brother citizens on the Gulf Coast have been forgotten; for out of sight is out of mind.
On June 20, 2007, Sen. Chris Dodd [D-CT.] sponsored S. 1668: Gulf Coast Housing Recovery Act of 2007, a senate bill that required the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to allow specified uses by Louisiana of certain funds under the Road Home Program and set a deadline for the Housing Authority of New Orleans to make a certain number of dwelling units available for occupancy among many other things to benefit those still suffering the aftermath of Hurricane Kat.
My heart as yours was broken as we all witnessed the horror of our sister and brother citizens on roof tops and in squalor after the levees broke.
Hearts turn cold and hard when we forget to remember what had once pierced them apart.
Redemption is always available and we the people can do something, when we know the truth.
I will be reporting from Central City, New Orleans from July 27-Aug. 2, 2008 on the convergence of committed social justice Christians who are doing something to help restore hope and homes for the poor.
If it keeps on raining, the levee's gonna break
If it keeps on raining, the levee's gonna break,
Some people are still sleeping
Some people ARE WIDE AWAKE.-Modern Times, Bob Dylan
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