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Originally Posted by sweetcuties
Yea, it's obvious this isn't his priority. Yesterday, on CNN I believe they said,the President flew over the area for 30minutes, lol. I started a thread a few days ago about how Bush was non existent and a well supposdly well respected person in this biz disagreed and gave me shit about it. I've lost alot of respect for some people in this biz.
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Bush is DIRECTLY rwesponsible for using funds to fix the 17th street levee for iraq.
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On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."
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One project that a contractor had been racing to finish this summer: a bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main breach on Monday.
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Money that has been used for decdes to fix levees is now being used for Iraq.
And its been in the papers for over 2 years.
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after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.
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its all spelled out very clearly there.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001051313