Bush: "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees" [View All]

He had the gall to say that this morning on Good Morning America. Video available here:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA

You gotta be f*cking kidding me!

:banghead:

He is giving the same answer to his inept response to the Katrina disaster that Condi Rice gave to her inept response to 9/11:



Ari Fleishcher also echoed the same official line:



Bush himself said the same freaking thing on April 18, 2004:



Same tired old line. Apparently they know nothing, and they couldn't have foreseen anything at all. This line worked for them back then, and they are recycling it now that it's clear their mismanagement has made Katrina an even worse disaster.

Well, according to Atrios and Echidne blog, there have been countless predictions of the NOLA levee breaking and flooding the city, yet the Bush administration irresponsibly CUT THE BUDGET for the levee maintenance.

http://www.tpmcafe.com/story/2005/8/30/212451/290

http://www.prospect.org/web/printfriendly-view.ww?id=10180

Bush even FIRED the guy who predicted this outcome:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4545070&mesg_id=4545070

And then Bush himself cut the funding for the levee maintenance:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-050831corps-story,1,2364215.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

The amount of chutzpah used by these people is just too much. They lie with the upmost impunity in face of overwhelming evidence against their bullcrap. I hope the media, for once, hold their feet to the fire... but we shouldn't expect much, as usual.