No one said that. Katrina is responsible.
but two facts remain:
1. Work on the levees was slowed by underfunding (about 33% of what was requested)
Ap:
This underfunding goes back to Carter. The attempted budgets cuts have been drastic in recent years tho
If you think that Iraq did not take some type of toll on the annual budget, hence it left less money for funding these type of projects, thats just flat-our ridiculous.
2. The National Guard, which as you must know has been heavily used in Iraq, which of course means there is less for this type of thing.
Boston Globe:
Boston Globe:
Now, you can argue for the war and against it all you want, hindsight is 20/20, but this situation IS worse because of the wars in Iraq and Afganistan.