The hearings also came in the wake of the destruction wrought by Hurricane Katrina, with significant numbers of the National Guard of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama deployed in Iraq. It is time we looked after our own backyard, ... We cannot do this as long as we continue to make Iraq the fifty-first state.
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