You forget that the fact that the Dems in LA have been taking kickbacks from crooked contractors who used substandard materials and methods when they should have been shoring up the levees. These will show up when they start investigations. You can start by searching all of Nagin's personal papers and computers and I'll bet that you will find millions of dollars of money in offshore bank accounts.
Just what I expect, anyway. Anyone who would endanger an entire city for lucre will have no compunctions about arkanside.
That's been my view as well, Money is at the root of their need to 'control' the situation, Add to Nagin both Blanco, Landrieu and any other corrupt officials LA.
From an item by Michael Grunwald Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, September 8, 2005:
"Over the five years of President Bush's administration, Louisiana has received far more money for Corps civil works projects than any other state, about $1.9 billion; California was a distant second with less than $1.4 billion, even though its population is more than seven times as large.
Much of that Louisiana money was spent to try to keep low-lying New Orleans dry. But hundreds of millions of dollars have gone to unrelated water projects demanded by the state's congressional delegation and approved by the Corps, often after economic analyses that turned out to be inaccurate. Despite a series of independent investigations criticizing Army Corps construction projects as wasteful pork-barrel spending, Louisiana's representatives have kept bringing home the bacon."