Subj : Um...no comment? To : Finnigann From : Daemon Date : Fri Sep 02 2005 07:23:00 Re: Um...no comment? By: Finnigann to All on Fri Sep 02 2005 02:36 am > In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the > three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New > Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war. Excellent... I hit upon an article that covered almost exactly the same points as this one literally as I was about to walk out the door to go to work, so never got the chance to cite it into here. Should Bush have known in advance there'd be a hurricane that caused so much devistation? No, of course not. But imprudence is as imprudence does. Ditto incompetence, and boy does it suck when they're one in the same with a healthy scattering of arrogant stupidity thrown on top of it. [daemon] In the shuffling madness... --- þ Synchronet þ necropolisbbs.darktech.org - Tonawanda, NY .