The President KNEW...
that Brownie had phoned...

...on the day that the levees had breached to tell him that New Orleans was sinking...

The President KNEW...
...that day.

The President KNEW...
...that day.

The President KNEW...
...that day.

The President KNEW...
...that day.

The President KNEW...
...the following day, too.

The President’s wife KNEW...
...the following day, too.

The President KNEW...
...the following day, too.

The President KNEW...
...but pretended that he didn’t.

The President KNEW...

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

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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."

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

LINKS:

White House knew scale of Katrina disaster from start, official reveals

Katrina Report Spreads Blame

White House blamed for Katrina failings

Bush inaction ’delayed’ Katrina aid

Ex-FEMA chief: Bush aides informed

Brown: I Warned White House as Katrina Hit

Katrina denials ’are baloney’

White House knew of Katrina devastation immediately

The White House dodge on Katrina

A Katrina Brownout

Read from Looking Glass News

Contradictions & LIES - Another Photo Summary about Katrina
http://www.lookingglassnews.org/viewstory.php?storyid=5045

and

Read from Looking Glass News - Disaster in New Orleans - a comprehensive compilation of the most insightful stories about Hurricane Katrina and the political impact it has had on the American people

http://www.lookingglassnews.org/index.php?topic=19