[Rhodes22-list] New Orleans Flood control funding

[thenacarville at bellsouth.net]

Saroj,
It is late and I am incredibly tired....I can't tell you how it makes me feel to have someone use this situation in the way you have just done....just for the record, there are many complex issues involved and you obviously don't understand them....PLEASE don't use the suffering and loss down here and tie it in with your personal agenda....it is inappropriate at this time. 
Thena
> 
> From: "Saroj Gilbert" <saroj at pathfind.net>
> Date: 2005/09/01 Thu AM 06:55:20 CDT
> To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] New Orleans Flood control funding
> 
> Interesting piece tying in the impact of the Iraq war with the current 
> disaster in New Orleans:
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> 
> "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
> 
> By Sidney Blumenthal
> 
> In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the 
> three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New 
> Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
> http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html
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> 
> This is sickening... I just can't figure out why the streets (or should I 
> say  "streams") of New Orleans and other gulf coastal areas are not swamped 
> (sorry) with U.S. Military handing out food, water, diapers, and other 
> essentials... oh... they're all in Iraq... well I guess the Navy got soft 
> and decided to deploy a ship out of Norfolk yesterday.... hmmm... should 
> arrive in a week?  The way the government has responded to this disaster so 
> far is shameful.  We treat citizens in other countries better than we treat 
> our own.
> 
> Saroj 
> 
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