Where is help after Katrina?

It's hard for me to comprehend why people are still dying in the disaster area. Why is there no food, water, medicine and evacuations of the critically ill? The government has fallen flat on its face on this one.

Hopefully, this will contribute to the administration's demise, as well it should! I would bet that if these victims had been wealthy white folks, the relief would have been much more expeditious. Perhaps the voters will think twice about waging war around the world when our own population lives with a crumbling infrastructure and 30 percent of New Orlean's people living below the poverty level.

If this doesn't qualify as a Homeland Security failure, I hate to imagine what would!

Pamela Galloway

The Spokesman Review

Spokane, WA