I have never been sympathetic to complaints about high gas prices and that hasn’t changed. In fact, for those who voted for the current administration, this is all I have to say: do you really think gas prices would be this high in the first place without a war in Iraq? Don’t complain to me. Granted, Katrina could not have been prevented, although the government has shown incredible incompetence in prevention and relief efforts, and there may be price gouging going on by gas station owners and oil companies (or should we call it a free market economy?). But the next time you complain, think of the people left in New Orleans who are in this situation and getting less help than victims of disasters in the third world because most of the National Guard is in Iraq, FEMA has been underfunded because all the money went to the war and according to George W. nobody could foresee that the levees would break. Right. Explain to me again how the war in Iraq assures homeland security?