OMG: Bush Admin Tries to Blame Environmental Groups for Flooding

[lady lib]

Published on Friday, September 16, 2005 by The Clarion-Ledger (Mississippi)
E-mail Suggests Government Seeking to Blame Groups
by Jerry Mitchell

The Clarion-Ledger has obtained a copy of an internal e-mail the U.S. Department of Justice sent out this week to various U.S. attorneys' offices: "Has your district defended any cases on behalf of the (U.S.) Army Corps of Engineers against claims brought by environmental groups seeking to block or otherwise impede the Corps work on the levees protecting New Orleans? If so, please describe the case and the outcome of the litigation."

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Whoever is behind the e-mail may have spotted the Sept. 8 issue of National Review Online that chastised the Sierra Club and other environmental groups for suing to halt the corps' 1996 plan to raise and fortify 303 miles of Mississippi River levees in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.

The corps settled the litigation in 1997, agreeing to hold off on some work until an environmental impact could be completed. The National Review article concluded: "Whether this delay directly affected the levees that broke in New Orleans is difficult to ascertain."

The problem with that conclusion? The levees that broke causing New Orleans to flood weren't Mississippi River levees. They were levees that protected the city from Lake Pontchartrain levees on the other side of the city.

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LINK
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines05/0916-10.htm

They are pathetic. They are desperate. They are __________ (fill in your own adjective):mad:

[gademocrat7]

1. yes,pathetic,desperate and

hopefully their time is up.

[acmavm]

2. Criminals (please insert in blank).

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[SoCalDem]

3. Yep.. the "move forward..don't look back" crowd

reached waaaaay back to the '60s environmentalists' blocking of levee construction as a likely "cause".. and of course we all knwo who was in charge back then, don;t we??

So much for personal responsibility and accountability and adults being in charge.....

[Double T]

4. Desperately Low....

but to be expected from the rovian smearinator

[lady lib]

6. "Rovian smearinator" -- good one!

Unfortunately, (and I'm crying here) the Turd Blossom Express has been temporarily derailed due to (I'm sobbing now) a painful kidney stone condition. :cry: Never fear, the train will be arriving in Smearville shortly.

[Kolesar]

5. This has Turd Blossom written all over it. Now he's in charge of N.O.

reconstruction.