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For the truth, see a Chicago Tribune article the same day. Its lede says: ?The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.?
The Tribune notes the decision to build the levees for a Category 3 storm was ?made decades ago.? Next, it says, ? ?I don't see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case,? said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, chief of engineers for the corps. ?Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of ... [New Orleans] would have still taken place.? ?
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