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Why the White House won't release its Katrina papers

Mayor Nagin seeks foreign aid

Gov. Blanco threatens to with hold approval of new offshore petrolem leases I hate to think how badly Americans would fare if disaster hit some part of the country with even less clout/resources/etc than here.

And remember, in Greater New Orleans, the big disaster wasn't Katrina, it was the Levee failure.

Overtopping claim won't hold water, experts say "So, yeah, this was a human failure, not a natural disaster." More evidence giving additional confirmation to what's already known.

More US Army Corps of Engineers levee screwups

See Louisiana's bayous, picturesque home of drowned SUVs

And in other news:
Much Muslim outrage not actually about the Danish cartoons, but rather over a different set of cartoons an extremist group forged to deliborately stir up trouble. and More commentary