Friday, September 02, 2005

Did it have to happen?


Even as President Bush says that nobody knew the levies would break in New Orleans, there's plenty of evidence to the contrary. The Los Angeles Times is reporting today that in 2002 news organizations, including the Times-Pic and NPR, and the New York Times sounded the alarm. Apparently, the fed's cost-benefit analyses concluded that it could not afford to reinforce a levy system that was only designed to withstand a Category 3 storm. Some reports assert that the Army Corps of Engineers simply could not afford to beef up flood control measures in New Orleans and keep up operations in Iraq.

The Bush administration is already under fire for the apparent inability to restore order and evacuate New Orleans. The N.O. mayor slammed the federal government as "clueless." Others are asking, how does musician Harry Connick Jr. get food and water to evacuees at the N.O. Convention Center, even as federal authorities cannot?

Perhaps feeling the pressure, President Bush told reporters that the response has been "unacceptable."

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