Bush Knew About Katrina
01 March 2006 3:00 pm by Taylor Marsh
Bush Knew About Katrina
“I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of
the levees.”
Bush – Sept 1, 2005
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UPDATE… see the video and here. Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina |
… Six days of footage and transcripts obtained by
The Associated Press show in excruciating detail that while federal officials
anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the
Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough
resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.Linked by secure video, Bush's bravado on Aug. 29 starkly
contrasts with the dire warnings his disaster chief and a cacophony of federal,
state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm.
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Tape:
Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina
New footage just released shows President Bush being briefed before
Katrina hit land. It proves that the president absolutely knew the levees might
be breached. Chris Matthews just aired some of it on “Hardball,” which
was obtained by the AP.
We're in the eye of bad news overload, people, so you've got to wonder if this latest news will even register. People
have seen so much incompetence, on top of moral corruption, which includes saying
one thing and doing another on the war, not providing body armor for the troops
or their Humvees, and now not telling the truth about what he knew about Katrina
before it hit. President Bush saying nobody anticipated the breach of the levees,
when he, himself, was actually briefed on that very fact. It's unimaginably damaging.
It's a never ending contagion of incompetence.
Republicans were distancing themselves from Bush on the Dubai
port deal, but this new Katrina evidence is going to make them want to run.
We all know that Republicans hate government, so just maybe that's why they're
so bad at running it.
President Bush obviously has no shame. He will say anything in
public, regardless of the facts or the truth.
