"I can say that we wouldn't be looking back wondering "what if" the maintenance requests had been fully funded..."

So if Katrina had come along during the Clinton years, the results would have been different some how? We wouldn't be wondering about things? How does that difference amount to anything tangible? How is that the other way around?

And still, Do you claim that the levees would have held
if GWB had given the Army Corps of Engineers all of the money they asked for?

You keep knocking editorials as not fact and not to be taken seriously. Your whole thread is an based on your editorial opinion. Is it to be taken seriously?