Reply #1: Yes! And they can pay their judgment with the $$ that was diverted to Iraq [View All]

[KamaAina]

from the levee maintenance budget. The source here is Walter Maestri, the emergency manager for suburban Jefferson Parish, not exactly a liberal anti-war bastion.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12647

When Katrina struck, resources were stretched. First there was the matter of the money. "It appears that the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay," Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, told the Times-Picayune newspaper on June 8, 2004. "Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us."