We send supplies and help to the people of Georgia but

[katmondoo]

not to our own. The people of New Orleans got nothing, nothing.

[gatorboy]

1. No supplies or help for South Ossetia when Georgia invaded?

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L737912.htm

MEGVREKISI, Georgia, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Georgia pounded the capital of its breakaway South Ossetia province with heavy weapons on Thursday after a ceasefire broke down within hours and separatists said they were under siege.

"Georgian troops are storming Tskhinvali (the capital). They are bombing the city," South Ossetia's separatist leader, Eduard Kokoity, told Russian news agencies.

A Reuters reporter saw intense fire from heavy weapons at different locations skirting Tskhinvali. The reporter heard heavy fighting coming from the direction of the city.

<snip>

South Ossetia and a second rebel Georgian region, Abkhazia, --both of which unilaterally broke away from Georgia at the beginning of the 1990s -- enjoy Russian political and financial backing, ex-Soviet Georgia has allied itself with the West and is pushing for NATO membership.

[magellan]

2. NOLA got a flyover with Bush** looking appropriately grim

The only airlifts were of people off rooftops.

And the supplies meant for NOLA residents somehow wound up at prisons.

I hope for the sake of the Georgian people that BushCo handles this relief effort better.