The destruction of New Orleans - Bush did it, says Blumenthal

Former Clinton Advisor: "No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming" - International - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News:

"After a flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City. But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war."

It would be tempting to take this all at face value, but toward the end of his rant Blumenthal veers off into other Bush failings including reducing the supply of condoms in Uganda, failing to approve the morning after pill, racial profiling in traffic enforcement, and no bid contracts to Halliburton in Iraq. One supposes that, if Blumenthal grew tomatoes in his garden and they got "rust," that would be Bush's fault, too.