Geez Nick, you are the information hound. You can sniff out those sources like no other.
I am torn after reading these pieces of information.
On one hand it is a difficult fight against nature to hold back water from low lying lands. Nature has a way of winning these battles.
But, if it is true, that Bush gave $100 million to help Iraq restore the wetlands over there....I am just plain disgusted. How could he choose to limit funding for New Orleans’s levee repairs and then send our money to Iraq?
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-April 24, 2004: The Times-Picayune reported that “less money is available to the Army Corps of Engineers to build levees and water projects in the Missisippi River valley this year and next year.” Meanwhile, an engineer who had direct the Louisiana Coastal Area Ecosystem Restoration Study – a study of how to restore coastal wetlands areas in order to provide a bugger from hurricane storm surges – was sent to Iraq "to oversee the restoration of the ‘Garden of Eden’ wetlands at the mouth of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers,” for which President Bush’s 2005 gave $100 million.
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