Re: Re: By the way, Bill

Clark,

Your links were COMMENTARY by newspapers, not facts.  Stating that 
funding was cut is a fact - stating that they were "drained into the 
Iraq war" is an opinion.  Clinton cut funding as well to the levee 
projects, and the state government and city governments ALSO cut 
funding.  My own opinion (which I won't present as 'fact') is that they 
knew that the levees would not hold up to a Cat4 or Cat5 storm and 
decided the money was better used on an evacuation plan.  A plan, I 
might add, that they DID NOT IMPLIMENT.

Stating that 35% of LA's guard was in Iraq may well be a fact (I heard a 
lesser perecentage), but stating that they are not enough to do the job 
is an opinion.  Other opinions on that regard are that there WERE enough 
to do the job, if the governor had chosen to deploy them.

Stating that the war is "an illegal war" is an opinion.  You have a few 
facts presented in your links, but frankly, the majority of it is 
opinion taken from the media.

You'll have your opinion, I'll have mine.  The simple FACT is that New 
Orleans and LA were ill-prepared.  The question then becomes, who is 
most responsible for their city.  New Orleans, LA, or the rest of the 
country?  I'm in the camp that NO should have prepared better 
themselves.  LA as a state should have done likewise.  The Feds are only 
good AFTER the storm, as Florida well knows, and it's a lesson other 
states ought to learn from this ordeal.

-- 
Bill Highfield
St Cloud, Florida, USA!

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