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To: NightOwl who wrote (10868)	9/2/2005 2:54:44 AM
From: David C. Burns	Read Replies (1) of 14464

Levee Money Diverted to Iraq How plainly does this need to be said? Beginning in 1995, the Army Corps of Engineers began a project to shore up the New Orleans levees. But starting in 2003, the money for that project began being diverted to pay for the war in Iraq. As Will Bunch writes: Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward (shoring up levees) 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. Finally we begin to see the human costs associated with trying to fight a war while cutting taxes for the wealthiest.

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