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verminator Donating Member (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 06:09 AM
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Oct 04: FEMA knew hurricane could flood New Orleans.
OCTOBER 2004:
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/

....Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.

When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City.......
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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 06:15 AM
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1. Oh my oh my oh my. Makes all the 'nobody could possibly know'
sort of sound like the whiny pathetic lying excuses that they are.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 06:34 AM
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2. This is what happens when you ignore
science and opt for intelligent design.
There are too many serious articles stating just this scenario and Bushco fucked up. It's that simple.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 06:39 AM
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3. No one in the Bush admin could imagine "planes used as missiles" either
LIARS!
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MildyRules Donating Member (739 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-21-05 06:58 AM
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4. People have known for DECADES
that a big hurricane could/would flood NO. This is NOT news to anyone from NO.
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