Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. [appointed by Bush in 2008 and related to Rush Limbaugh] Ok the blowup

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levee. U.S. District Judge ruled that the Corps had the right to breach the levee to prevent flooding in Cairo, Illinois, as permitted by a 1928 law.

The levee breach could flood 130,000 acres of Missouri farmland, which contains about 90 homes. Missouri had filed suit to prevent the Corps from carrying out its plan.

Limbaugh wrote that he found that the Corps is committed to implementing the plan only as essential to provide protection to all citizens. He wrote “this Court finds that no aspect of the Corps’ response to these historic floods suggests arbitrary or capricious decision-making is occurring.”

Before this decision was made, I felt it was too risky to do... That whole area sits on a very sensitive vault line... Now that I know who approved it, I feel even more uneasy about the judgement....http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/05/01/army-engineers-to-flood-130000-acres-of-missouri-farmland-to-save-illinois-town/