"We Are Fully Prepared"

The AP has film of Bush during the last Pre-Katrina meeting on Aug. 29. It shows a President and a White House that was fully aware of the dangers facing New Orleans. His comments were: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees". The newly released tape shows them speaking in detail about what was to come and what they later claimed there was no way they could have expected. The AP has caught the president in a lie. red handed. on tape. this sort of negligent behavior is beyond irresponsible...perhaps criminal.

WASHINGTON - In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned
President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: 'We are fully prepared.'

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_Homeland Security officials have said the "fog of war" blinded them early on to the magnitude of the disaster. But the video and transcripts show federal and local officials discussed threats clearly, reviewed long-made plans and understood Katrina would wreak devastation of historic proportions. "I'm sure it will be the top 10 or 15 when all is said and done,"
National Hurricane Center's Max Mayfield warned the day Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast.

We are talking about a knowing disregard here. a betrayal of the most basic job of the President. At best he was asleep at the wheel. AT BEST.

Know who looks best on the video? Ex-FEMA chief Brown.

"We're going to need everything that we can possibly muster, not only in this state and in the region, but the nation, to respond to this event," Brown warned. He called the storm "a bad one, a big one" and implored federal agencies to cut through red tape to help people, bending rules if necessary.

"Go ahead and do it," Brown said. "I'll figure out some way to justify it. ... Just let them yell at me."

If they KNEW the Southern states were about to be hit with, perhaps, the nations greatest natural disaster of all time...and didn't have one question...well, I have to ask: Who's really in charge here? Because Jr. seems to be play acting President. how can the man truly leading this nation sit there in this briefing, before this disaster and have not ONE question? not ONE comment?

America has no President.