Call it the year of lame excuses - MSNBC

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By Alex Johnson
Reporter
MSNBC
Updated: 5:47 p.m. ET Dec. 29, 2005


Alex Johnson
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“I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees,” President Bush said on Sept. 1, three days after Hurricane Katrina punctured the system of dams protecting New Orleans and created the greatest natural disaster in American history.

Unfortunately for the president, that wasn’t true, as news reports about studies that did just that would make clear. But it sounded good at the time.

“I remember on Tuesday morning picking up newspapers and I saw headlines, ‘New Orleans Dodged the Bullet,’” Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said three days later, explaining why his department was slow to respond to the devastation. “Because, if you recall, the storm moved to the east and then continued on and appeared to pass with considerable damage but nothing worse.”

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1. "Dodged a Bullet" :eyes:

The papers said nothing of the sort.

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2. So the blown up levees are a non-item now?? I really haven't been

keeping up with all of that, has that been definitively been put to bed???