Ray nagin is a moron.

[Lady's Human]

There are major differences between the cities of Amsterdam and Venice, and the City of New Orleans.

Amsterdam has had a national government lead the way in financing and running the dike/flood protection projects. Venice is the same.

The Army Corps of Engineers (the agency that handles most flood control and river projects in the US) was (im)politely told to butt out. The ACoE's plans were fought by both local officials and environmental groups. Local officials because the ACoE would have been running the contracts (no more kickbacks, pools of levee tax money, shoddily built levees at a premium price, etc), and environmentalists because the project would have disturbed the local wetlands.

After refusing Federal help to avoid the problem in the first place, now they want the Federal government to step in and take control.

The original city, the French Quarter, is above sea level, and can be easily protected from storms. The rest of the city needs to go, unless the local and state governments agree not to interfere with the ACoE's plans.

[Edwina's Secretary]

I was thinking about this and I wonder....our tax dollars were spent blowing the #%#$ out of Iraq and are now being spent rebuilding Iraq....just in time for their civil war to blow it up again.

How does that differ? and why is it OUR federal government's job to do? Or to subcontract to close and personal firms to do? (and please...spare me any 9/11....just last week in a press conference GW AGAIN said there is no connection with Iraq....)

[Lady's Human]

Sara, two words. It ain't. The money to rebuild Iraq should come out of their oil revenue.

[Edwina's Secretary]

How about the money to blow it up in the first place?

[Grace]

Read it and weep - THE COST OF WAR

What an absolute waste of money, lives and good will.

[Lady's Human]

Sara, if they hadn't been shooting at us in the first place, and had abided by the UN resolutions in place, we wouldn't have had any reason to blow it up.

Besides, we had all this old cold war ordnance we had to use up before it went bad, and what better way to eliminate it from the inventory than use it on someone?

[RICHARD]

Besides, we had all this old cold war ordnance we had to use up before it went bad, and what better way to eliminate it from the inventory than use it on someone?

I believe it's called "rotating stock"....

Look at all the old ordnance lying around Iraq. Not safe at all.

The only thing we had to pay for was the gas and the people to drop the bombs....I paid for all the rest before.
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ANd in typical AH fashion, there is Mayor Noggin slapping the Prez on the arm like a long lost pal.....


Funny, ain't that the guy that you were talking smack about?

[Edwina's Secretary]

Sara, if they hadn't been shooting at us in the first place

???????????

Newsflash....Iraqis firing on US...did I miss it? Or do you mean after we invaded their country?