The day storm hit, Bush was worried about levees (gap in concern, action)

[sabra]

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/washington/index.ssf?/base/news-1/114119685117810.xml

The day storm hit, Bush was worried about levees
Transcript shows gap in concern, action

WASHINGTON -- On the day that Hurricane Katrina roared ashore, President Bush and a top presidential aide were worried about whether New Orleans' levees had held, according to a transcript of discussions among disaster officials on the front lines of the storm.

Those concerns, expressed about midday Aug. 29, are in contrast to an image of a detached president and also to what happened later that night. That's when an official manning the federal emergency operations center held off acting on reports of levee breaches as he waited for confirmation.

The White House was chastised recently by a House committee for not moving more quickly to address the failed levees that ultimately plunged 80 percent of New Orleans under water.

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Brown told congressional investigators that had the White House been monitoring the calls, "They would have known what was going on."

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[KittyWampus]

1. Bush "worried"? Not likely.

[Lasher]

2. Deer in the headlights

Just like on 9/11

[patdem]

3. well, he was so worried he did not know people were suffering till

they were screaming on tv? this is just cya crapolla or propaganda as bush* so loves to propell!

[sabra]

4. this shows that there was some "concern", but still no action...

me thinks this makes them look even worse.

[htuttle]

5. "Message: 'I care'"

"...but not enough to actually DO something about it."

[Demeter]

6. SURE He Was! He was REALLY Worried About Those Levis!

You did say Levis, right? He was worried that his Levis wouldn't hold if he ate that birthday cake. After all, it's hard to play guitar sitting down with split britches.

[Javaman]

7. What? Me worry?

colossal racist asshole failure*

[noonwitch]

8. Any good comic artists out there?

I have a concept for a political cartoon. Find a way to use the old story of the dutch boy plugging the dike with his finger to save his city from a flood.

Draw Bush as the dutch boy on vacation while NO floods.

[Roland99]

9. He was SO concerned that....

Let Them Eat Cake
http://www.conjur.com/blog/2005/08/29/let-them-eat-cake/

And Nero Fiddled
http://www.conjur.com/blog/2005/08/30/and-nero-fiddled/

[librechik]

10. "dodged a bullet" NOT???

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[rocktivity]

11. There would have been no NEED to worry about the levees holding

if you'd finished funding them, Georgie. And if doing that wasn't impossbile, you should have had FEMA sit down with with state and local leaders and come up with an alternative evacuation/relocation/reconstruction plan!

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