It's official: New Orleans is Bush's fault, he cut the funding to zero for research on the vulnerability of New Orleans to hurricane damage, drained funding meant for flood control to the war in Iraq; his additional cuts at the beginning of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since 2001 and who was president in 2001?) and forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans' levees, but it was too late. Bush is also responsibe for turning wetlands over to developers, and it is the wetlands that prevents flooding. Trust me, when the press gets through with this one it will all be blamed on Bush, the Republicans, and we cretin types on the Right. Good old Sidney Blumenthal (remember him???), writing for that America loving journal "Der Spiegel," joins RFK in the left assault just days after the hurricane and these guys will have no trouble finding liberal media to be their ventriliquistic dummies for their dialogue of the extreme Left. Writing for the German press virtually guarantees no German aid for us unless we agree to the Koyoto protocols. Thanx Sidney. Thanks RFK. BTW, good ol' Sid also writes for the aways balanced Guardian too.