New Orleans flood defenses

In today's news:

"At least nine articles in the Times-Picayune [the local New Orleans paper] from 2004 and 2005 specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of hurricane- and flood-control dollars." ...
"In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was needed for Lake Pontchartrain [the lake that is now flooding New Orleans], according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article, in New Orleans CityBusiness."

One more result of the irrational "war on terror"