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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: tonto who wrote (66180)9/2/2005 8:39:42 PM
From: American SpiritRead Replies (1) of 81568
 
The levee funding was demanded in 2004 by the Army Engineers. Bush cut their request by more than 80% which they claimed was woefully inadequate. Clinton has nothing to do with this. He was history for four years by then.

The levee work should have been a Homeland Security priority. Terrorists could have bombed the levees if a storm hadn't flooded them. And FEMA warned Bush and HS that a levee break was perhaps the #1 threat to America, along with a SF earthquake.

So why are we spending so much money on Homeland Security when they ignore the top threat just to send the money and equipment to Iraq? And if Iraq is now costing us our homeland security, and is now a lost cause, more or less, what are we still doing there?

Also obvious is that Bush and all his people knew what we knew, that the flooding was likely. So why wasn't the response in place prior to the storm? Why did it take four days? Absolutely disgraceful. Bush is responsible. He cannot dodge this. There is nowhere else to point fingers. We need new leadership.
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