Sad day for country

So the police are having to stop their rescue efforts to concentrate on the looters. Whatever happened to the National Guard?

I always thought that was their prime objective, the care and safe-keeping of the local populace - "Sorry lady, gotta leave, hope you don't drown before we get back."

Just wonder how many lives will be lost because the Guard is no longer with us, instead getting shot up in Iraq to keep Bush's oil buddies happy and Halliburton making billions of disgusting profits out of our taxes.

Isn't it about time all those politicians began to get some backbone and remove this person from the White House? A very sad day for this country.

Owen Clarke

Des Moines