Katrina, Iraq, and the Know-It-All Syndrome The soil erosion equipment we need to save New Orleans is in Iraq- by Justin Raimondo

Katrina, Iraq, and the Know-It-All Syndrome- by Justin Raimondo
Bring the Troops home. We need them here.
Read this article, it covers all the points.

"Nothing is going to divert our leaders' attention away from their war to 'liberate' the Middle East, not even a calamity on the scale of what is happening to New Orleans. The costs of the Iraq invasion and occupation have already exceeded the bill for the Vietnam war, and yet Congress, at the behest of this president, cut the budget for flood control and levee-building in New Orleans drastically:

'In fiscal year 2006, the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is bracing for a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding. It would be the largest single-year funding loss ever for the New Orleans district, Corps officials said.'"