New Orleans?

Iraq? Beirut? or post-Tsunami Aceh? I watched CNN in disbelief as the footage of the storm ravaged city of New Orleans with its refugees struggling to survive without food, water, medicine and proper sanitation.

what irony as the stretched authorities deployed national guard troops, fresh off the plane from Iraq, to maintain law and order.

Brian Mollerie holds his dog Rocky Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005 in Waveland, Miss., about how he swam with Rocky from second story window in his family's store to escape Hurricane Katrina. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)