As Michael noted below, but it's worth repeating, Chertoff outright lied - LIED - today in order to justify George Bush's outright failure in letting thousands of Americans die in New Orleans this week while he was on vacation.
Here's what Chertoff had the nerve to allege.
Chertoff said the double-barreled hit taken by the New Orleans area -- the hurricane, and the breaching of the city's levees -- is what has complicated the government's response.This is a new variation of the lie Bush was spinning earlier this week, that no one could have ever foreseen the levees breaking. There are two responses to this:
"We were prepared for one catastrophe," Chertoff said. "The second catastrophe, frankly, added a level of challenge that no one has seen before."
1. We most certainly foresaw a levee breaking, and in fact the media reported on that possibility on Sunday before the storm even hit:Does the buck ever stop getting passed in the Bush administration? Or do they think that they can continue to lie while no one notices the dead bodies piling up?
Forecasters fear levees won’t hold Katrina, Daily Advertiser, August 28, 2005
2. By Monday morning - MORNING - the levees had broken wide open. Where was George Bush? On vacation for two and a half more days. Where were YOU? God only knows, because the president didn't meet with you and everyone else until two days later. By Monday morning you already knew the levee had broken and you didn't act until two days, to five days, later.
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