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In the 48 hours before Hurricane Katrina hit,
the White House received detailed warnings about the storm's
likely impact, including eerily prescient predictions of breached levees, massive flooding, and major losses of life and property, documents ...
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Bush On Katrina: ‘Don’t Tell Me The Federal Response Was Slow’
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During his final press conference this morning, Bush defended his response to Katrina. He said he has “thought long and hard about Katrina” and admitted that “things [could] have been done better” but denied any problem with the federal response to the disaster, insisting, “Don’t tell me the federal response was slow!”:
BUSH: You know, people said that the federal response was slow. Don’t tell me the federal response was slow when there was 30,000 people pulled off roofs right after the storm passed. … 30,000 people were pulled off roofs right after the storm moved through. ...
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