In article , Peter Duniho wrote:
"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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New Orleans politicians were at the very least incompetent, at the very
most criminally responsible for the death of their city. If the Federal
Government didn't do something, it is only because local politicians
didn't lobby hard enough or effectively.

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.

Upgrading the levees has been put off by both Democrat and Republican
congresses since at least the Carter administration with more than a
little help from environmentalists who along with other barking moon bats
like Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who claim that the hurricane was Bushes fault.

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