I bet that this has already been said before, but I would like to address something to Jefferson.

It doesn't matter how you get into all of the very small and actually insigificant details to a point to where you're actually debating the meaning of the words used in the story. Bush was warned in advance of an approaching hurricane. If this doesn't spell out disaster, than I don't know what does.

If your advisors tell you that a hurricane of historical strength is heading toward the shoars of the United States, I think its safe to assume that one will anticipate significant damage being done. The fact that you are attempting to argue Bush wasn't anticipating it, would make him look even more dumb and guilty than if he actually did anticipate it.

Someone tells him that a momumentous hurricane is headed for New Orleans, and that the breach in the weak levees (which had already been debated about reforming them in the past) is possible, it only takes someone with a grade-school education to anticipate significant damage being done to the city. People had been calling out for the reforming of the levees years before the Katrina hurricane; people had been warning of a very likely event of what actually happened with Katrina. Don't you think it would have been wise to heed these warnings?