Please click the above title to see a more in depth article on the slashing in hurricane preparedness funds
which bears directly on my friend's letter two posts ago, in "Come Hell or Highwater".
In a WSJ article recently, the administration wouldn't comment on the cutting of these funds, including a study to
determine how the city could be better prepared for a flood. Apparently the admin. thought the Army Corps of
Engineers had a lot of "pork barrel" projects and "cost overruns", especially when you compare it to their pet
project of the horrific and unnecessary war in Iraq, now confessed by Bush to be a fight over control of oil there. To paraphrase a recent speech of Bush's in response to the anti-war movement: "We can't let the terrorists get our oil or use Iraq as a safe haven for terrorists."
I quote him only extremely ironically. Bush created that haven, and the terrorists are only active there because we're there.
His speech was a last-ditch attempt to try to stem the tide of anti-war opinion here.
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