I will say again,  Bush was warned ahead of time of the "grave grave concerns, that this would be bigger than Andrew, much bigger, that the Dome could be a catostrophe within a catostrophe.

Except the "grave grave concerns" were based on a storm that never happened, and the meteorologist completely overstated the danger from the storm. As I  pointed out, nobody predicted the events that occurred that caused the flooding of New Orleans.  Had it not been for crapped-up engineering and construction, the city would have mostly stayed dry.

IMPEACH BUSH!!!!!!

There’s NO WAY that I should have to pay for a massage!  I play every Wednesday night and he KNOWS IT!!!!  I should have had a masseuse waiting for me when I got home. 

 

IMPEACH BUSH!!!!! 

I think Bush would have been better off saying that yes, this was indeed the big one, catostrophic and we did the best we could do.  But you all hang on to the topped argument if it works for you.

 

Paraphrasing, "no one could have anticipated that the levees would break", the video quite clearly contradicts that assertion. Bush repeated this assertion as recently as yesterday in his interview with ABC news.

The video shows Bush watching a presentation from his ranch of a meteorologist stating emphatically that breaching of the levees should be of great concern.

Assrocket ignores this blatant evidence. The administration is evidently now in damage-control mode, once again, as the facts they thought were safely hidden, come to light.

But, not to worry SA’ers – your man of principle was so concerned about the levees breaking that he flew directly to San Diego for a fundraiser.

 

You are all trying to make it sound like a trickle coming over the top is what was meant by the meterologist describing a category 5 hurricane bigger, bigger than Hurricane Andrew, that the levees could be topped and had grave, grave concerns.  All this said at the same time. 

What more could the meterologist have said to Bush to make his point? Once again, you all are trying to minimize the impact the seriousness of this tape because the meterologist didn’t use the magic word "breach" as if that would have made Bush sit up and take notice, that "grave grave concerns" or "Category 5" " bigger bigger than Andrew" words used by the meterologist just weren’t strong enough but if he would have just said breach then the cavlry would have been called.

Absolutely unbelievable.  You take one word that wasn’t said "breach" and then take that to mean the entire meeting was no big deal. Unbelievable.  You guys can’t be serious here.

 

Meterologist [sic], Category 5 storm, bigger than Andrew,  "grave grave concerns" about the levees. 

It was only a Category 3 by the time it reached New Orleans. None of the main levee breaches (17th St, Industrial Canal) were the result of overtopping, but rather the result of poor engineering design and construction errors.  None of this was predicted up front for obvious reasons.

The St Bernard Parish flooding was the consequence of the underutilized (man made) MRGO channel, which allowed the storm surge from the gulf to reach the lower part of the New Orleans metropolis.

Ultimately these problems were thirty years in the making, and could not have been corrected in a mere four year span (it takes 10 years to build a properly constructed earthen levee for example).  Bush has his share of the blame for inadequacies in the federal response, especially those associated with the turf wars between FEMA and HLS.  Obviously you can’t blame Bush for problems decades in the making or inadequacies in either the New Orleans or Louisiana governments.

 I find it laughable that loud-mouthed critics of Bush can’t even basic facts right, but expect everybody to take them seriously in spite of their inadequate grasp of the basic facts.