The President KNEW….(a photo-op summary)….and MORE!

LIAR!

“I don’t think anyone could have anticipated the breach of the levees.”

– President Bush – September 1, 2005

.

.

.

“We didn’t know about this in the White House.”

.

.

.

“When that storm came through at first,people said, “Phew!” There was a sense of relaxation at a critical moment.”

.

.

.

“We view this storm as a ‘temporary’ disruption.”

– President Bush – Aug & Sept, 2005

LISTEN TO THIS BUSH COMPILATION ABOUT KATRINA

(600kb, approx. 3 minutes)

Regarding Bush, the report found that “earlier presidential involvement could have speeded the response” because he alone could have cut through all bureaucratic resistance.

.

.

.

“If 9/11 was a failure of imagination then Katrina was a failure of initiative. It was a failure of leadership,” the report’s preface states. “In this instance, blinding lack of situational awareness and disjointed decision making needlessly compounded and prolonged Katrina’s horror.”

.

.

.

Given those warnings, the report notes Bush’s televised statement on Sept. 1 that “I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees,” and concludes: “Comments such as those . . . do not appear to be consistent with the advice and counsel one would expect to have been provided by a senior disaster professional.”

– Early House review summary – Washington Post, February 12, 2006

—————————————

Here’s a single image I made that sums up the summary:

(click on it and feel free to use it, as with this post.)