What would have been different if the Disaster Relief Programs

[Maraya1969]

had not been cut before Katrina? I just read this in another thread and I want to know if there were specific things that money that went to Iraq WOULD have done here to save lives and/or property.

[On the Road]

1. I Understand The Army Corps of Engineers Had a Budgeted Item

of something like $100 million to strengthen the 17th St Canal levee. And that that line item was cut back specifically due to the war in Iraq.

[demo dutch]

2. True but deterioration has been going on for quite a while. Prevention is

a dirty word. Officials and politicians have been holding their fingers crossed for years, this has been a distaster waiting to happen for years now.