All political leaders sometimes parry with the truth, but with Bush the disconnections are systematic
John Berger
Thursday September 15, 2005
The Guardian
<snip> Five days after Katrina had struck, when President Bush finally visited the devastated city, he astounded journalists by saying: "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." On the same day, in the wrecked small town of Biloxi, the president's flying visit was preceded by a team who quickly cleared the rubble and corpses from the route his cortege would take. Two hours later the team vanished, leaving everything else in the town exactly as it was. <snip>
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