quote: "...articles in the New Orleans Times-Picayune and public statements by emergency management chiefs in New Orleans make it clear that the Bush administration slashed the funding for the Corp of Engineers' projects to strengthen and raise the New Orleans levees and diverted the money to the Iraq war..."Make of this what you will. Is part of the disaster in the South the price we must pay to accomodate a handful of people who are power-lust perverts? Or should they be forced to compensate the citizenry of the nation for not providing leadership when it was needed ~ prior to disaster striking not afterwards.