In comments on Thursday,
President George W. Bush said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

But Louisiana State University engineer Joseph Suhayda and others have warned for years that defenses could fail. In 2002, the New Orleans Times Picayune published a five-part series on "The Big One" examining what might happen if they did.

This sounds just like what he said after 9/11. No one considered them hi-jacking planes and... Yes, all kinds of people did. The only ones who didn't seem to consider this were W and his people.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, won't get fooled again? Not even Crawford wants this fool back.

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