Laura On Katrina: Mistakes Were Made

ST. PAUL, Minn. - The soon-retiring President Bush, who was supposed to address the start of the Republican National Convention this evening, instead flew to Texas for a review of staging areas for the recovery after Hurricane Gustav, now a Category Three storm starting to lash the Gulf Coast around New Orleans. Air Force One lifted off from Andrews Air Force Base at 8:30 am EDT.

Laura Bush, here in his place for the start of an abbreviated convention limited to only official party business today, was on her way to a breakfast of the Louisiana delegation in Minneapolis with Cindy McCain, wife of the party's presidential nominee to be, Sen. John McCain. The first lady took a turn first at national television - where she addressed the "mistakes made'' and "lessons learned'' after Hurricane Katrina three years ago.

"There were lots of mistakes and they were on every level,'' Laura Bush said on CBS News' The Early Show this morning. "They were local, they were statewide and there were certainly federal mistakes. But we learned from those...''

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Comments

[badmac933]

Yeah, mistakes were made. First that stupid Dempkrat governor didn't know the Federal Assistance protocol, and didn't aid from Washington. She must have assumed that the President of the United States was watching her butt, and the everybody else, and all states, in America that are experiencing disasters. If she had read her Governor Owner's Manual, she have seen that if her National Guard and local law enforcement couldn't handle the situation, you ask Washington for help. Oh yeah, she didn't activate Louisiana's National Guard.
And second, the village idiot, mayor Nagan. Too low an IQ to know that his own levees couldn't handle that level of hurricane, and ask for help BEFORE Katrina arrived. Too low of an IQ to order the New Orleans people out of harm's way BEFORE Katrina struck. Too low an IQ to utilize the hundreds of school busus to get his people out of there once he realized (if he ever did) they were in trouble. Too low an IQ to put any kind of law enforcement in with the people he forced into the Superdome to handle the large percentage of criminals that he put in there with them.

Yep, mistakes were made. And the intelligent people of New Orleans made a major one by re-electing that same idiot mayor again. But what else would you expect? Good thing for the state and New Orleans that they had a Republican governor this time around to save their butts!!

[marymansour]

Oh Laura, say it isn't so.

[gakabani]

What an embarrassment and how late to say that. That was Bush, Mrs. Bush. The criminal, the insane, the corrupt, the demagogue, and the stupid.

[SantaFeStars]

Laura, the stepford wife, speaks out on Katrina! We all know that in disasters like Katrina, commands come from the President! You can't say it was on every level, Laura, everyone was waiting for the President's leadership - which was no where in sight!

[GayGrandpa]

Yes and I will remind you also Missy Laura, your husband was a holding birthday cake and partying with/ and for NONE OTHER than John McSame, oh happy day, AS THE LEVEES WERE BRAKING! Mistakes INDEED! AND YES, "mistakes made'' and "lessons learned'' after Hurricane Katrina three years ago! YES, we have learned, YES, we have, we can, and we will. YES WE WILL! YES WE WILL! YES WE WILL!

[ylpatriot]

ohh Lauraaaaa,, oh Lauraaaaaaa.....it was your Georgie Porgie who thought "Good Job Brownie" had it all under control !!!


Just thought i would remind you !!!