Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina

[USPatriot8320]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.
Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."
The footage - along with seven days of transcripts of briefings 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 expressed a confidence on Aug. 28 that starkly contrasted with the dire warnings his disaster chief and numerous federal, state and local officials provided during the four days before the storm.

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[DoctorDoom]

... federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers ...And exactly what could be done to prevent any of that? The whole thing was a clusterphuque from the get-go, with state and local officials screwing up with great gusto. And in the aftermath the fingers pointed to DC. "YOU didn't do this and that and the other!"

COOPERATION helps, you whining cretins!

[Aethariel]

We all knew the hurricane was Bush's fault, I'm glad we finally have video evidence of part of it! If only we could catch the part where he employed his secret weather-control device to actually *create* the hurricane, then we'd be set for impeachment. Oh well. The glass is half full, I guess!

[PaulRevere]

The levees were built to withstand a cat 3 hurricane. A kindergartener could have predicted the disaster years ago. They all knew, they just waited for the disaster, happily spending money on everything else they wanted.

This whole story is so blatantly slanted it's gross. It'll be overblown in it's significance, being used by the liberal media and the 'Rats to bash Bush.

[Native American]

We should also note that the Mayor of New Orleans was himself warned before Katrina. His response? He left all the city school buses in place, so they could all be flooded later on, and decided it "didn't make sense" to use those buses to evacuate the people from his city.

Then again, that Mayor is "only" in charge of New Orleans and is a Democrat, and thus can't be expected to be held responsible for anything, whereas President Bush isn't in charge of New Orleans and is a Republican.

So obviously the media needs to blame President Bush for this one.