FLASHBACK: The levees broke last Monday MORNING, a good 48+ hours before..

[Gloria]

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Saturday, September 03, 2005

FLASHBACK: The levees broke last Monday MORNING, a good 48+ hours BEFORE Bush called off his vacation
by John in DC - 9/03/2005 12:12:00 AM

The levees in New Orleans broke Monday MORNING, people.

By Monday evening, the Red Cross was already calling this the "largest recovery operation in the organization's history."

How can Bush and his GOP spinmeisters now claim that no one had any idea things were going to be this bad and that's why the federal government was so slow in responding, and that's why he decided to stay on vacation FOR TWO MORE DAYS, Condi Rice decided to go on vacation, and Dick Cheney decided to stay on vacation?

From the Times-Picayune

A large section of the vital 17th Street Canal levee, where it connects to the brand new "hurricane proof" Old Hammond Highway bridge, gave way late Monday morning in Bucktown after Katrina's fiercest winds were well north. The breach sent a churning sea of water from Lake Pontchartrain coursing across Lakeview and into Mid-City, Carrollton, Gentilly, City Park and neighborhoods farther south and east.

As night fell on a devastated region, the water was still rising in the city, and nobody was willing to predict when it would stop. After the destruction already apparent in the wake of Katrina, the American Red Cross was mobilizing for what regional officials were calling the largest recovery operation in the organization's history.

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[napi21]

1. Believe it or not, Shrub is probably telling the truth for once!

I don't think they pay enough attention to this kind of problems to have known how serious the problem really was.

[NYC]

2. Because it wasn't HIS problem.

It was New Orleans's problem. He enjoyed the birthday cake, though.

[Spazito]

6. Nope, he is incapable of telling the truth, he said today that

the levee broke Tuesday, just so he wouldn't look so bad.

[FloridaPat]

3. Clinton canceled his vacation and few back to Washington the day BEFORE

Hurricane Andrew hit Florida.

[uppityperson]

4. I told this to aghast people today and they were even more upset

MONDAY, it is now FRIDAY. This happened 4 days ago, 2 days before Mr.bush decided it was serious enough to check out. People were drowning and on rooftops for 2 days before he even flew over. Even His Master Cheney didn't care enough for days. This was MONDAY. Yes, people are being rescued, this morning I heard they'd taken several hundred off roofs but this is a BAD thing since they'd been there for 4 days.

Yes, it is good that things are beginning to happen and some lives will be saved but it took DAYS, precious days that are needed to survive 90 degree heat without water or shelter.

[Carolab]

5. Yet on TEEVEE, Bush said the levees broke on TUESDAY.

Did anyone else catch that?

[Mr Rabble]

7. I did. I started yelling at the TV Malloy style.

[Gloria]

8. KICK of overnight...

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