The Associated Press’s videos and footage of the FEMA-White House conferences before Katrina strike me as damning evidence of this president’s eery detachment. Just read the story, and see how emphatically the president was warned about the coming storm. In those sessions,
"A top hurricane expert voiced "grave concerns" about the levees and then-Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown told the president and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that he feared there weren’t enough disaster teams to help evacuees at the Superdome. "I’m concerned about … their ability to respond to a catastrophe within a catastrophe," Brown told his bosses the afternoon before Katrina made landfall."
It didn’t make a difference. Four days after the storm, Bush declared "I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." He was either lying or had slept through his pre-storm meetings. The latter is possible. The record shows he asked not a single question in the pre-Katrina briefing. Maybe he was miffed his vacation had been spoiled. Michael Brown seems on the ball in comparison.
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