"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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That statement is as incorrect as George's. For example, money had in
fact been budgeted for repair of the levees, but later was diverted to
fund the Iraq war.

Source?

I'm tempted to use the "just****inggoogleit.com" web site here, but in the
interest of whatever, here's the first Google link from a trivially easy
search:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/ea..._id=1001051313

There are plenty of other articles documenting the fact, if you bother to
look.

While you may consider the Washington ADIZ to be a disaster on a scale
with Katrina, I suspect most of us don't see any comparison.

The scale of the "disaster" is irrelevant to the comparison. The principle
you're espousing should apply equally regardless.

I can believe that YOU don't understand the comparison. But that's only
because it contradicts what you think. You have never changed your mind on
anything, nor have you ever admitted error, and I don't expect to see you do
it now. But the fact remains, you putting 100% of the blame on the local
governments in New Orleans and Louisiana just because they "didn't lobby
hard enough or effectively" just makes no sense.

Lack of federal action does not prove that someone did not lobby hard
enough. All it proves is that the federal government took no action.

Pete