Tuesday, August 29, 2006

IMAGES: destruction

VO: Why wasn’t the federal government prepared? For years engineers told the government the levees could fail. Three years earlier, a in-depth study in a New Orleans newspaper warned that nearly a quarter of a million people would be unable to evacuate from New Orleans. Yet the Republican government cut back funds for those levees, and shortchanged emergency preparations. What was the Republican response?

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