[Rhodes22-list] New Orleans Flood control funding

[anima13]

Yes, Saroj,

The Red Cross should never beat the National Guard to a disaster.

Anne

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Interesting piece tying in the impact of the Iraq war with the current
disaster in New Orleans:
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"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"

By Sidney Blumenthal

In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the
three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New
Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html

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This is sickening... I just can't figure out why the streets (or should I
say  "streams") of New Orleans and other gulf coastal areas are not swamped
(sorry) with U.S. Military handing out food, water, diapers, and other
essentials... oh... they're all in Iraq... well I guess the Navy got soft
and decided to deploy a ship out of Norfolk yesterday.... hmmm... should
arrive in a week?  The way the government has responded to this disaster so
far is shameful.  We treat citizens in other countries better than we treat
our own.

Saroj

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