"I'd rather be in Iraq"

"This is mass chaos," said Sgt. Jason Defess, 27, a National Guard military policeman who had been stationed on a ramp outside the Superdome since Monday. "To tell you the truth, I'd rather be in Iraq," where he was deployed for 14 months, until January. "You got your constant danger, but I had something to protect myself. [And] three meals a day. Communications. A plan. Here, they had no plan."

When someone who has been in a war zone tells you he'd rather go back there then be in New Orleans now, then the situation is far worse than anyone can imagine.