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Originally Posted by hevusa Jefferson, you are arguing something very much off topic. The point is Bush was informed before Katrina that the levees would not withstand a CAT 5 hurricane. Yet after the fact Bush speaks to the media and says he didn't know that the levees would break.
Flat out lie. He was informed to the contrary and the lie was caught on tape. | No. He was told that Lake Ponchitrane might spill over the top of levee, not that they would fail. And the tape shows Max Mayfield saying nobody knows exactly what would happen- which is what Bush said. Because the levees were not designed to protect from a direct hit from a Category 5, and Katrina did not directly strike New Orleans, and that had been forecast when Bush received the briefing. |