The Dim-wit’s Defense

Federal report predicted cataclysm By Bill Walsh

Bush’s front-line disaster agency, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, was predicting the worst. In a Power Point slide show dated Aug. 27 and obtained by The Times-Picayune, the agency spelled out the death and destruction anticipated by Hurricane Pam and warned that Katrina was likely to be worse. …

“Overall the impacts described herein are conservative,” the report said.

The report focuses on the disastrous results of levee failure.

“The potential for severe storm surge to overwhelm Lake Pontchartrain levees is the greatest concern for New Orleans,” it said. “Any storm rated Category 4 on the Saffir-Simpson (hurricane) scale will likely lead to severe flooding and/or levee breaching. This could leave the New Orleans metro area submerged for weeks or months.”

Four days later, President Bush said on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.”

It’s not a lie if he can’t remember the truth. mjh

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