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To: i-node who wrote (250222)	9/7/2005 7:29:31 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574188

"This is a lie." You are wrong. Now true, we don't really know if the levees would have breached or not if the maintenance and upgrades had been done. But we do know that without them, they did breach. The funds for providing maintenance were cut out of the budget in 2004. Funds have been cut every year since 2001. A plan to upgrade the levee system from a minimum Cat. 3 was shelved due to lack of funds. The Times-Picayune has been reporting this for years. And Louisiana has been screaming about it for as long. You need to read more.

To: i-node who wrote (250222)	9/7/2005 8:55:01 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574188

"...Yet 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. Newhouse News Service, in an article posted late Tuesday night at The Times-Picayune Web site, reported: "No one can say they didn't see it coming. ... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions are being asked about the lack of preparation." In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness. 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...." editorandpublisher.com