Bush on Good Morning America:
"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees."
As most of us following THE NEWS are aware, discussions of the levees stretch back to the first reports that Katrina would hit New Orleans. Furthermore, the levees have been an issue for YEARS!
From 2004:
For the first time in 37 years, federal budget cuts have all but stopped major work on the New Orleans area's east bank hurricane levees, a complex network of concrete walls, metal gates and giant earthen berms that won't be finished for at least another decade.
And now... This from the Superdome...
An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
There aren't words. Who shall these people look to for support and leadership? Who's minding the store here? And what's still to come?