New video shows Blanco saying New Orleans levees were fine

We've all seen the video shown all over the news about how Bush was warned that the levees could break, right? If you haven't, check out BTI's take on it. Well, a new video from the AP shows Governor Kathleen Blanco saying that the levees have not been breached, when in fact they were three hours before.

"We keep getting reports in some places that maybe water is coming over the levees," Gov. Kathleen Blanco said shortly after noon on Aug. 29 — the day the storm hit the Gulf coast.
"We heard a report unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee," she said on a video of the day's disaster briefing that was obtained Thursday night by The Associated Press. "I think we have not breached the levee at this time."

I really don't think this is all that important except it shows the massive confusion and lack of information before the storm. So many people who are and were eager to just blame the President don't understand this simple fact. I'm not saying the President and federal government were perfect by any means. But how is Bush supposed to make a decision based on a person who was much closer to the action than he was?

I just wanted to post these two pictures to show how unfair the criticism was that "Bush was on vacation at Crawford" during the storm. I hate to tell you liberal bloggers that no matter where the President of the United States is, he is NEVER on vacation.


President Bush on a video teleconference with federal and state emergency management organizations on Hurricane Katrina from his Crawford, Texas ranch on Sunday, August 28, 2005.

President Bush and White House deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin appear from a narrow, windowless room at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch.

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