"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" -- Oops

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<p>I knew the Bush presidency was going to be bad, but who could have predicted it would be this bad? Honestly, it just gets more and more amazing. Maybe Bush just doesn’t work hard enough. Maybe he simply spends too much time on vacation, sleeping, and riding his bike.</p>

<p>New video tape released today by the AP shows Bush being briefed on the potential severity of Katrina the day before it struck. Funny how four days after the hurricane Bush declared that “No one could have anticipated the breach of the levees.” Was he just not listening or what?</p>

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<p>Source:
<a href=“http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1675984&page=1[/url]”>http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1675984&page=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Impeach Bush he caused Katrina.</p>

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<p>He just lies in his sleep, and cannot be held responsible for his medical condition.</p>

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<p>w1cked,</p>

<p>That’s the best you got? Please, defend Bush’s handling of the situation.</p>

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<p>Bush is a great president and I commend him for all of his efforts and I don’t appreciate liberal hippies like you throwing stupid insults at our president. This is America! Show some freakin’ patriotism!</p>

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<p>haha, you are kidding right? you don’t think we are patriots</p>

<p>our President SAID no one anticipated the breach of the levees, and voilia, there is a TAPE with him being told</p>

<p>gee, liar liar pants on fire</p>

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<p>“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees”.</p>

<p>Remember, four days had gone by, with a hurricane in-between, before he made this statement. So cut him some slack. How could anyone be expected to remember an emergency briefing?</p>

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<p>AND ITS ON TAPE!!! No denying it!!!</p>

<p>You would have thunk that his advisors, would have said, he, georgie boy, remember that meeting a couple of days ago, umm…here’s what you were told when you were day dreaming about whatever it is you daydream about</p>

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<p>Hey, give the guy a break. You have to remember that, between the emergency briefing and his remarks about no one anticipating there were important fundraising opportunities.</p>

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<p>ccrunner123, do you have nothing to do but bash people, call them unpatriotic, and make fun?</p>

<p>the title of this area is, gee, PARENTS CAFE…for adults to talk about stuff</p>

<p>as a new member, you need to watch your manners a bit</p>

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<p>and, we have caught our president in a lie…its on the news stations, even, gasp, Drudgereport</p>

<p>this is news, its pretty amazing, don’t you think that the commander and cheif of these great United States doesn’t remember or is lying about, something that was talked about in depth in a meeting he was at regarding a national disastor?</p>

<p>guess some peoples standards are lower when it comes to honesty and competence</p>

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<p>He WASN’T lying. He said “I don’t think.”</p>

<p>That is likely true.</p>

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<p>is it worse that he doesn’t pay attention, or that he said, No one anticipated, or that he lied that no one anticipated </p>

<p>people anticipated and told him so, I consider that a lie when he said “no one anticipated” the excuse before was that maybe perhaps they didn’t directly tell him…that was the excuse, now there is proof they told him directly and he says they didn’t…</p>

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<p>Lets blame him for causing one of the worst hurricanes in this century. That ■■■■■■■.</p>

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<p>Could the kids go to bed now???</p>

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<p>nah, there enough to blame him for…the RESPONSE to the hurricane, well, we still got that</p>

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<p>Well … if he can’t remember about being told about the levees, and he didn’t read a report about the potential for terrorists to fly planes into buildings, and he found out about selling the port management company to the Arabs from the newspapers … what is he doing all day long?</p>

<p>And do we really want him to keep doing it?</p>

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<p>Reading forums for advise on how to run this country; because clearly soccer moms and high school students have more knowledge than a professional staff, cabinet, some of the smartest politicians around him.</p>

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<p>go read the news reports, what the people at the meeting said, the professional staff, the politicians, go ahead, read it</p>

<p>if you are going to call names, just stop and grow up</p>

<p>bet you haven’t even looked at the news- you have all kinds of people with 'grave concern" talking at length about the levees probablly going to break, and later Bush says, gee no one thought that could happen</p>

<p>please, at least I read and learn, not give knee jerk support</p>

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<p>to give you a hand:</p>

<p>"Leaked video footage and transcripts of top-level briefings in the six days before the storm showed federal officials telling Mr Bush the storm could breach levees and overwhelm rescuers."telegraph.uk</p>

<p>a congressional report written by republicans said the administration was unprepared</p>

<p>the tape shows Bush and Chertoff being told the levees were in great danger</p>

<p>"WASHINGTON Four days after Hurricane Katrina hit, President Bush declared, “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees” in New Orleans.
But video of pre-storm briefings, and transcripts of those briefings, reveal that there was, in fact, plenty of talk about that possibility. And Bush was among those who was worried about it…They reveal that a top hurricane expert voiced “grave concerns” about whether the levees would withstand the powerful storm…"Montana news Station</p>