[cgbg]

The levee improvement argument is a total canard. Much of the MSM has nailed that one:

--The levee improvements have been underway for years and will be underway for many more years. Cuts or maintenance of funds would not have changed that fact.

--The levee improvements were only engineered for Cat 3 storms. They would have made no difference in this case.

--The particular main levee that broke was not considered sub-standard and was not in the improvement plans.

Louisiana's three stooges--one mayor, one governor, one senator.

[t2buckeye]

AND the levee that breached had been one that was recently reinforced, I believe.

[A. Pole]

The levee improvements were only engineered for Cat 3 storms. They would have made no difference in this case.

Actually it would. If the levees were in good shape the way as they were designed the water would not get in. Did you forget that the hurricane did not hit New Orleans directly, that the strength of it diminished and that levees broke after it passed?

The levees have to be maintained and the neglect was in 2003, 2004, 2005.