REASON why B*sh did not ask a single question @ Aug 28 Katrina briefing:

npincus

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Thu Mar-02-06 09:46 AM
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REASON why B*sh did not ask a single question @ Aug 28 Katrina briefing:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/K/KATRINA_VIDEO?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-03-01-18-15-10

Nobody wrote one for him.

Video footage of the Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government's disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."

Bush appeared from a narrow, windowless room at his vacation ranch in Texas, with his elbows on a table. Hagin was sitting alongside him.

"I want to assure the folks at the state level that we are fully prepared to not only help you during the storm, but we will move in whatever resources and assets we have at our disposal after the storm," the president said.

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AzDar

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Thu Mar-02-06 09:48 AM
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1. Incurious George goes to Briefing..... n/t

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benburch

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Thu Mar-02-06 09:50 AM
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2. Drunk or stoned on his ass. nt

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Danascot

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Thu Mar-02-06 09:55 AM
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3. To be able to form a question

you either have to give damn or have a clue, or both.

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Robeson

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:12 AM
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9. Bingo....

...you nailed it.

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dancingme

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:00 AM
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4. He was on VACATION

He was annoyed that he had to sit in a conference room during his VACATION.

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Crankie Avalon

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:02 AM
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5. That's it...

...he figured asking questions would just prolong the meeting.

"Now watch this drive!"

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Tin Man

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:11 AM
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8. Yep, Georgie loves his 'down time' - questions would have only prolonged

...the interruption to his precious vacation. What a miserable fucking failure of a president.

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Virginia Dare

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:06 AM
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6. He's completely incompetent and incapable of caring..

could it be any more glaringly obvious?? When will people WAKE THE HELL UP?????

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npincus

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:10 AM
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7. who writes his pee-pee permission slips when he's at Crawford?

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William Bloode

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:12 AM
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10. Well at any rate,

It does seem to show even though incompetent, Brownie did try to get something or someone on the ball and get things done.

"Aug. 28 briefing, the final one before Katrina struck, showed an intense Brown voicing concerns from the government's disaster operation center and imploring colleagues to do whatever was necessary to help victims.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."

Seems he wanted to do something. Maybe (well we know) he was just to incompetent.

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npincus

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:19 AM
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12. I agree- the MSM has been very cooperative in making Brownie THE Bad Guy

A disaster of this magnitude required LEADERSHIP, DIRECTION and FOLLOW-THROUGH from the top, not an empty cowboy suit wearing a sherrif's badge.

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SoCalDem

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:14 AM
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11. if he asked questions and got answers, he could not claim

to be innocently oblivious to the whole thing:(

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mainer

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Thu Mar-02-06 10:33 AM
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13. Brownie comes off pretty good

Yet he's the one who got assassinated in the media

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