[Centurion2000]

WASHINGTON — In the closest thing yet to a mea culpa, the commander of the Army Corps of Engineers acknowledged Wednesday that a “design failure” led to the breach of the 17th Street Canal levee that flooded much of the city during Hurricane Katrina.

I would have thought the fact that oh .. a BIG freaking HURRICANE hit would have caused the failure.

[Mila]

“I would have thought the fact that oh .. a BIG freaking HURRICANE hit would have caused the failure.”

The levees, had they been designed correctly to begin with, should have held.