Michael Brown, Bush's director of FEMA, just said the following to Larry King, in an effort to explain why the federal emergency response is going so slow:
"I must say, this storm is much much bigger than anyone expected."Okay, that's an outright lie. This storm was predicted to be a major category 5 hurricane with 175 mile per hour winds. From everything I read, it actually slowed down before it hit New Orleans, and it went somewhat to the east of the city (it was expected to hit New Orleans dead on), and by going east it spared New Orleans the full brunt of the storm. So what Brown just said, the storm was much bigger than anyone expected, is an outright lie. The storm was, in fact, a tad smaller than expected, and in the case of New Orleans, the storm didn't hit nearly as hard as they thought.
