Forum: How does the war in Iraq affect us?

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We are now seeing, in other states, exactly how the war in Iraq affects communities, in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. Not only is the president too busy trying to buy support for his policies to return to DC to coordinate the response to a major disaster (certainly the worst disaster to face us ever), but half the National Guard, the front line of disaster relief, is in Iraq, getting killed in a war we were lied into. It is possible that the levee that broke and let the water from the lake flow into New Orleans might have been strengthened if the funds had not been cut to fund the war. Yes, this has not happened in NH, YET. YET stands for YOU'RE ELIGIBLE TOO.

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