I do find peoples reactions to things like this strange though. From a professional perspective, if they rebuild NO they are insane. Abandon those bits below sea level, its only gonna get worse with rising sea levels. Anything else is stupid and irresponsible, simple as that.
A) New Orleans is a popular tourist spot of course they will rebuild
B) It would have survived the storm had Louisiana (Who incidentaly receives the highest amount of money for flood prevention) spent the government money that was given to them for the purpose of preventing flooding, on flood prevention instead of pet projects. The levies did not break, it was the inadiquate walls that connect the levies that broke. (I probably mispelled levies)
C) That place is a mad house now, people have been firing at the cops who try to get them out. People are being trampled while getting onto the buses that lead out. Not many cities are willing to accept evacuees anymore due to either overcrowding or the fact that the crimes being comited in New Orleans now (Looting, theft, murder, numerous others that I will not mention) are following the evacuees like a specter and are reaching new hights in Houston and Dallas, where many have fled too.
D) The National Guard took so long to get out there mainly because New Orleans was not the worst hit place by the storm, though it has been the most televised.
E) The president was on vacation, what did you expect him to do? Command the storm to stop? Run into an unstable place that could rightly be called a war zone now that people have split into gangs for survival against the other gangs? I\'m not particularly pro-Bush or even pro-anything, but I\'m tired of people blameing this one guy when something goes wrong.
F) If your going to photoshop a picture at least remove the reflected image of the cameraman and the open sea from his glasses.