FIRST THE FLOOD, NOW THE FIGHT

If only there were such nit picking over military contract spending! Again, someone explain to me why we can dole out billions of dollars to rebuild Iraq, and Lebanon (after we gave Israel the weapons to destroy it), yet we can't come through for one of our own??? Oh wait....there's no oil in New Orleans.......

By Spencer S. Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 30, 2006; Page A01

Someone had to pay to remove 3,000 dead trees in New Orleans. The trees, insisted the Federal Emergency Management Agency, couldn't have been killed by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters because they weren't toppled to a certain angle. New Orleans would have to pay.

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