Very liberal friend of mine has been blogging about Katrina, she's very upset (rightly) and blames Bush (wrongly).
Bush spent $400 million on flood-control relief in 5 years. In 8 years in office, Clinton spent $200 million. In fact, Louisiana has received more flood-control money than any other state. Read.
The levee that broke had just been reinforced. Read. (You may need to subscribe).
The Red Cross was ready to deliver food and water to the Superdome refugees, but the Louisiana Department of Homeland Security, a state agency, wouldn't let them. They feared too many people would show up. Read transcript of an interview here.
Stories of rapes at the Superdome are not substantiated. Read.
N.O. had buses to remove low-income residents before the levees broke. They didn't use them. Picture.
As Ben Stein says, Get off his back.
-Zube.
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