From: John Cuccia 

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:42:51 -0600, John Cuccia  wrote:

>For the last time, you will not find a single Bush advisor who did not
>think that levee failure was a possibility.

While this guy probably isn't a Bush advisor, I still think I have to eat
the above words.  The arrogant fools at the Corps of Engineers thought
their designs were failure-proof:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030500947
.html
Designers of New Orleans's levee system apparently did not see failure as a
possibility. In an e-mail written 24 days before Hurricane Katrina hit, the
engineer in charge of the system dismissed the notion that a levee made by
the Army Corps of Engineers could breach.

"I don't think an engineered levee would fail during a storm,"
wrote Harley S. Winer, chief of the coastal engineering section for the New
Orleans district.

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