& Who is going to restore "law and order" to the WH?

[G_j]

Bush LOOTED hurricane- and flood-control $$$ for Iraq and Tax Cuts
and LOOTED the LA National Guard and sent them to Iraq.

who is going to restore "law and order" to the WH?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313

also at: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0831-04.htm

Published on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 by the Editor & Publisher

Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen?
'Times-Picayune' Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues

By Will Bunch

PHILADELPHIA - Even though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans late on Tuesday. That's because Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two-block-long break in the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal. With much of the Crescent City some 10 feet below sea level, the rising tide may not stop until it's level with the massive lake.

New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been working with state and local officials in the region since the late 1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA.

Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250 million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New Orleans continued to subside.

Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars.
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"The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. Everything is sinking, and if we don't get the money fast enough to raise them, then we can't stay ahead of the settlement," he said. "The problem that we have isn't that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have dried up so that we can't raise them."


..more..

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1. And the Rethugs know they are responsible

just look at Bush's face. They will pay for this. Add the thousands who die here to the list of war dead. Further all their plans for September 11 have been fugged. The citizens of the Gulf now need the troops and the equipment and the cries will get louder.

I heard that water pumps from Louisiana were taken to Iraq. They are going to pay for this - in ways they never dreamed off. They are fugged this time because their neglect has destoyed their own citizens at home.

[G_j]

3. these stories are being conspicuously ignored

by the media.. I didn't think I could hate the media any more than I do already, but..

[G_j]

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