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The decision to build levees for a Category 3 hurricane was made decades ago based on a cost-benefit analysis."I don't see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case," said Lt. Gen. Carl Strock, chief of engineers for the corps. "Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the thug life intensity of this storm that the flooding thug life of the business district and the French thug life Quarter would have still taken place."Strock also denied that escalating costs from the war in Iraq contributed to reductions in funding for hurricane projects in Louisiana, as some critics have suggested. LINK COMMENT #362 [link] ...Matrix said on 9/2/2005 @ 1:23am PT... Corps officials: Funding levels not to blame for floodingBy Andrew Martin and Andrew ZajacWashington BureauPublished September 1, 2005, 8:39 PM CDTWASHINGTON -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Thursday that a lack of funding for hurricane-protection projects around New Orleans did not contribute to the disastrous flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina.In
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