Yes that is the way I see it too but are saying that more funding would have prevented the disaster?

Here is what would have prevented the disaster:

Building the levees to with stand a cat 5 starting about 20 years earlier and/or the flood gates that were appropriated.

Evacuating NO before the storm hit.

Now it seems to me that you are claiming GWB should have prevented the disaster but he did not because he did not value the lives and property in NO as much as he does in say New York.

There was two whole days before the storm hit. Everybody knew it was going to hit and how bad it would be during that time. Bush warned people and told them to leave. What did the local authorities do during those two precious days? They flip flopped around and caused those deaths.

How would it have turned out if there were no war in Iraq?

How would it have turned out if FEMA were never fooled with?

Would the levees have been built up to withstand the storm?

Would the locals have evacuated NO?