01 September 2005

Bush was warned of potential New Orleans disaster in 2001, and then cut flood control funding

First, the Bush administration told the 9/11 Commission that they could not have predicted an al-Qaeda attack on America, despite a Presidential Daily Briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States".

Now they're claiming that they could not have predicted the New Orleans disaster, despite FEMA warnings in 2001 that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. -- to which Bush responded by cutting New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war. [Read more.]

And Bush keeps trying to tell us that he's all about a "culture of life".

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