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To: benwood who wrote (47600)3/2/2006 2:13:02 PM
From: regli  Respond to of 116555
 
"Bush cut the reinforcement funding for levees during his watch and lied on TV about foreknowledge of the impending disaster."

It wasn't just cutting flood control funds by 44% to pay for the Iraq war, Bush "turning over wetlands to developers almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm surge". Responsibility for the extent of the Katrina problem falls very clearly in his lap.

2004 article
magma.nationalgeographic.com

service.spiegel.de