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Multiple failures caused relief crisis
Analysis
By Paul Reynolds
World Affairs correspondent, BBC News website

The breakdown of the relief operation in New Orleans was the result of multiple failures by city, state and federal authorities.

There was no one cause. The failures began long before the hurricane with a gamble that a Category Four or Five hurricane would not strike New Orleans.

They continued with an inadequate evacuation plan and culminated in a relief effort hampered by lack of planning, supplies and manpower, and a breakdown in communications of the most basic sort.

On top of all this, there is the question of whether an earlier intervention by President Bush could have a made a big difference.

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4216508.stm

Looks to me with an objective analysis of the facts in the situation, there is plenty of blame to go around. This is immaterial, however, to the question of wether or not Bush is culpable in the fiasco. He is, and he , as all those responsible, should be held accountable.