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Levee Town

Alexander Cockburn
September 15, 2005   |    This article appeared in the October 3, 2005 edition of The Nation.
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There are decades of memos from engineers and contractors setting forth budgets to build up the Gulf Coast's levees, but Bush wouldn't let them be.

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Alexander Cockburn
Alexander Cockburn, The Nation's "Beat the Devil" columnist and one of America's best-known radical...

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Alexander Cockburn
September 15, 2005   |    This article appeared in the October 3, 2005 edition of The Nation.
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