This topic was done to death in the politics forum...
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Originally Posted by Poppinjay
I don't see where Ray Nagin can take much blame for what went wrong at all. He can't really make any sweeping declarations. In fact, the most he can do is report the levee status to the federal government, which he did a year ago when he begged for stronger levees. The money to do that was in Iraq, so it didn't happen.
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jay, there are a couple articles in this post
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showpos...8&postcount=34 that describe how NewOrleans got more money under bush than under clinton and how the levees breaking had nothing to do with iraq, but the city's own mismanagement of funds.
If y'all want to keep arguing about this lets pick up where we left off, there were 2 or 3 long threads already running in politics. We can revive them if we need to.