Originally posted by MapOfTaziFoSho:
Originally posted by TGO:
Originally posted by MapOfTaziFoSho:
It makes me sick that the ppl of this country are #2 to this dayum war in Iraq.



WTF do the levies have to do with the war in iraq?? it's a STATE issue.

What, the government should fix every states bad roads too??




And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!


read this right here




Oh really?


Agency officials said on Thursday in a conference call that delayed work was not related to the breakdown in the levee system and Parker told Reuters the funding problems could not be blamed on the Bush administration alone.

Parker said a project dating to 1965 remains unfinished and that any recent projects would not have been in place by the time the hurricane struck even if they had been fully funded.

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No amount of money would have prevented this. That city is (was) so corrupt, how much would have actually gone to the intended purpose?

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