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Ant:
FYI, in 2001 the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the New Orleans disaster as being one of the top three likely catasrophic disasters facing the country... [/i][/size]

KEEPING ITS HEAD ABOVE WATER
New Orleans faces doomsday scenario
By ERIC BERGER
Copyright 2001 Houston Chronicle Science Writer

New Orleans is sinking.

And its main buffer from a hurricane, the protective Mississippi River delta, is quickly eroding away, leaving the historic city perilously close to disaster.
So vulnerable, in fact, that earlier this year the Federal Emergency Management Agency ranked the potential damage to New Orleans as among the three likeliest, most castastrophic disasters facing this country. The other two? A massive earthquake in San Francisco, and, almost prophetically, a terrorist attack on New York City. The New Orleans hurricane scenario may be the deadliest of all.
http://www.hurricane.lsu.edu/_in_the_news/houston.htm

So what did Bush do?  Well for starters the Whitehouse denied Lousiana requested funds...[/b]

The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only to be opposed by the White House. Ultimately a deal was struck to steer $540 million to the state over four years. The total coast of repair work is estimated to be $14 billion.

In its budget, the Bush administration had also proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed $10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need.

http://www.newhousenews.com/archive/alpert083105.html

and they were planning to cut more...[/b]

In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding.
It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4200/is_20050606/ai_n14657367

And even worse, the fuck-up in Iraq is hindering our ability to respond to the disaster... [/b]

This comes at a time when National Guard troops make up 40 percent of the combat troops in Iraq. About 40 percent of National Guard soldiers from Mississippi and 35 percent of Louisiana's are in Iraq.
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/nation/12527598.htm


So how many excuses can you make for these guys? A federal agency warned way way back that this is one of the TOP 3 disasters for us to be on the look out for, and what does the white house do?  Cut funds that would help us react to such a disaster.  In the end the temporary cuts saved us nothing, aside from the obvious fact that many people lost their lives, this whole thing is gonna cost us way more because of the poor preparation.  Assholes like Cwalker wanna complain that "the blacks" are looting, well if 40% of the national guard wasn't dicking around in some bullshit war in Iraq we might be a bit closer to having the proper staffing to handle the situation. Make of this what you will, but a majority of the country is tired of the excuses. 

hotdamn:
Already been posted.

J Bananas:
You know what I heard the Bush Administration flooded New Orleans on purpose so they could charge more for oil. those greedy republican bastards

Trauma-san:
Motherfuckers made a hurricane machine and tried to kill all the black people. 


HILLARY '08!

Ant:
ignoring reality and making jokes on a message boarrd may be convenient at times, but look where you're ignorance really got you.  your almost 30 in a total loser.  your life's lack of accomplishments are a testament to your stupidity, so why you ever open your mouth is beyond me.   

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