Who Is the Real Terrorist?

Dear Editor,
    Right now, some of our finest citizens are struggling to save the lives and homes of several thousand residents of the beautiful city of New Orleans. It's a tragedy that this had to happen, as the worst of it could have been avoided.
    But what's that you say? How does one avoid a natural disaster such as a hurricane? Well, for one, you have to repair and maintain the levees that keep your city dry. The federal government had promised more than $450 million to Nahlens to repair their rapidly deteriorating levee system. Unfortunately around 2003 that federal funding was cut off (an 80% reduction in funds) by the White House in response to growing budget tension as it became more and more important to blow up innocent people on the other side of the world and give tax cuts to millionaires, and less important to maintain the vital infrastructure of our country. Hurricane Katrina simply pushed through the weakest point of New Orleans' lifeline. Now we have thousands dead, billions of dollars worth of damage, and coming soon to a pump near you: $4 a gallon and economic crisis.
    This has got to be the last straw. If it wasn't for this god-awful war and these idiotic tax cuts we might have avoided at least some of this disaster. And while New Orleans would have been hit, and hit hard, it might not have wound up 10 feet under water and uninhabitable for the next few years, a cesspool of debris and toxic waste, and possibly a jump-off point for the next great plague.
    Bush's policies are terrorism. Both against the world and the people of this country.