April 2001: GWB speaks about tax relief in NOLA (oh, the irony)...

[deadparrot]

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.

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

Transcript of:
President Bush Speaks at Zephyr Field in New Orleans, Louisiana
Zephyr Field
New Orleans, Louisiana

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/20010426-6.html

And a picture from the event:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/04/images/20010426-6.html