Oh, it's just a fantasy of those anti-war people.

Nope. This comes from the head of the national guard among others.

BAY ST. LOUIS, Mississippi (AP) -- The deployment of thousands of National Guard troops from Mississippi and Louisiana in Iraq when Hurricane Katrina struck hindered those states' initial storm response, military and civilian officials said Friday.

Lt. Gen. Steven Blum, chief of the National Guard Bureau, said that "arguably" a day or so of response time was lost due to the absence of the Mississippi National Guard's 155th Infantry Brigade and Louisiana's 256th Infantry Brigade, each with thousands of troops in Iraq.

Curious question. If the lack of a coherent resonse was the fault of the La governor, which I would dispute, isn't the fact that a third of her guard and most of their equipment being deployed in Iraq going to mess up the previously established response plans? If you take away the personnel and the equipment, just how is she supposed to respond?