The Bush Administration siphoned off New Orleans flood control money for the Iraq war.
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war.
–Sidney Blumenthal, 2001
Reuters: An aerial view of the New Orleans airport underwater
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