Welcome to New Orleans (amazing front page picture in WashPost)

[LynneSin]

Of course what's sadder about this picture is the article listed right below it on the http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/30/AR2005083002162.html
Strain of Iraq War Means the Relief Burden Will Have to Be Shared

[Hapameli]

1. Just horrible...

Nominated.

[jarnocan]

7. got global warming? got a reality check? got enough $ in the war chests?

"In its budget, the Bush administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project."
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/e...t_id=1001051313
The war in Iraq was a much bigger prioroty then keeping US safe, in so many ways!!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

8. Plans to allow New Orleans to be damaged by storms and floods date back

at least several years, judging by the massive cuts or blocks in project/grant funds to protect the city or provide disaster relief. In addition to the other threads I and others have posted on how the Bush Administration cut funding for disaster protection and relief, here's a new one. So far it only has 3 votes, and it's buried in the Editorial Forum - it deserves a wider audience:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x151655
Thread title: 9/28/04 La should have received FEMA disaster mitigation grants, but got 0
paineinthearse Editorials Tue Aug-30-05 12:25 PM

Even just the excerpt given in the OP shows that this is a long-term policy of the Bush Administration. No explanation for denial of the funds was given. The money still went to places like Texas and California, but despite all evidence suggesting that they should be first in line, NOTHING for New Orleans.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

2. The easiest way to remain sane...

...is to NOT think about what could have been accomplished with the money spent on the Iraq war.

And the lives of the 1880 U.S. soldiers (2074 for the entire "coalition")...

I understand Diebold, and I understand Karl Rove, and I understand fanatical evangelical "Christians," but I don't understand how this country signed up for four more years of George W. Bush. I wish I could just have one single moment of clarity, with all of the "tinfoil hat" conspiracies stripped away, and truly KNOW how that happened.

[Carolab]

4. Election fraud.

That's how.

[WiseButAngrySara]

5. Bingo. And media manipulation. 2000 and 2004......n/t

[TheWraith]

3. New Orleans, hell. More like Welcome to New Atlantis. NT

[lvx35]

6. nominated.

"Strain of Iraq War Means the Relief Burden Will Have to Be Shared"

Oh boy. sigh.