and a complete fool cuts a fart

Even at a Cat 3, the levees were sinking, and the New Orleans officials were pleading for funds to fix them. they were denied, as the Corps diverted all money to the Iraq debaucle.

Bush said the flood control in New Orleans was a priority of his administration. How is it a priority when he first cut and the stopped the funding for the project? We had $300 Billion to spend on a war with a country that did not pose ANY danger to America but have no money to protect the 35th largest city in the U S ! Anyone that defends such action is simply un-American!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Seeya round, Col.

bye bye rightwinger. Adios amigo. Caio. sayanara. Shalom.

Time for AMERICA to start working on AMERICA, I will vote for any presidential candidate that will close the damn borders, no matter what else there policies are like.

Why I'm feeding trolls, I don't know... call me bored, or maybe just tell me I that I'm not using the common sense I just commented on myself, but either way, here goes...

Where were the levees supposed to have been expanded to I ask the people that want to bash?

I read the same articles that the C.O.L. seems to have seen, and others -- including one from U.S.A. Today that talked about the engineering nightmare that is trying to protect New Orleans.

Better levees require bigger levees, which requires valuable real estate, and may involve using up precious protected wetlands that can't be touched thanks to the efforts of who again please?

Better pumps, maybe you can blame the lack of that stuff on money spent elsewhere, or maybe -- again, as I asked in my own article, maybe you can apply common sense and ask why were we protecting a city that has basically been sinking for how many years? One that probably shouldn't be there now, and probably shouldn't be rebuilt -- at least not in the same way.

Dance your happy Bush bashin' dance if you want. Add more replies that I ENCOURAGE EVERY ONE THAT MIGHT EVEN THINK OF ADDING TO TO CLICK "TROLLING" ON AND TAKE BACK THE POINTS YOU ARE WHORING. The same old one-note bashing goes on and on -- even as the Jazz in New Orleans lays silent because of a freak of nature (one that was destined yes, but still a freak storm none the less).

C.O.L. if you put even 1/10th the time into volunteering to help the country in some way as you do in wasting words in your bashin' blogs, then you are truly a man to be admired. Sadly, I'd bet you do nothing of the kind, as you instead sit and watch CNN and get gin'd up about more stuff you can bash on about.

And yet again, Dabe has pulled out the obscenity stick. I guess it's as hopeless a case as the C.O.L. is. I'd make the same comments about Dabe spending time volunteering with the Red Cross, or Habitat, or the Salvation Army or a bunch of others, but it strikes me that she'd much rather have the government do the job so she can complain about it not being done right, or claim it would have been so much better if W. wasn't in charge.

For the record, I don't believe I've tossed an obscenity around in this reply. Hopefully people that read it will not have to wade through noise and crap (ok, I guess I wrote "crap" once or twice) to get to the real issue, and as usual, those that have been around a while will see Dabe bashin the Bush supporters, the C.O.L. trying to get a bunch of points for another bashin' effort, and perhaps a string of replies and arguments from people that fall into the trap, or are bored and don't mind wasting time to correc the inaccuracies, half-truths and embellishments that are used to try to make a point that Bush is the devil and it's all his fault.

Higher. They wanted to make them higher. The problem was that they were sinking. Also, the steel was old and rotting. God, why do I bother feeding trolls.

Did you bother to read the U.S.A. Today article I previously (in another thread) referenced on the issue?

Higher = need bigger base to support the weight that is added as the height is added.

So again, where were they going to get the real estate? It was clearly referenced in the article. U.S.A. Today - a fairly liberal source. Read and learn. Here's the link again Engineers had warned of a looming disaster

BTW, if the C.O.L. had been reading other blogs, rather than devising a new Bush bashin' angle to try, he might have seen me clip the same basic information he's trumpeting today yesterday here: https://forums.joeuser.com/Forums.aspx?ForumID=17&AID=85209#656721

And to save you more time: From Reuters/Yahoo! and other sources: Budget cuts delayed New Orleans flood control work. Read it carefully though, and realize that even someone that is complaining about the lack of funding acknowledges that the problems with funding date back to the 1965 - and that is through several periods when liberals (Democrats mostly) controlled Congress, the Presidency and more.

This shows how truely pathetic and desperate liberals are.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.

Col you are so clueless it isn't even funny anymore. The average American is better off with Bush than some tax everybody liberal like yourself.

Not So. EVERY poll shows Bush has the support of about 1/3 of the American people on almost every major issue! You just happen to be in that 1/3!