This report will really piss off alot of democrats...

that is of coarse if they bothered to ever read anything with any resemblance of truth to it.

How apro po that this independent report would come out while the left wing and its apologists are foaming at the mouth over the AP releasing ...SHHHH, SECRET...tapes of the administration planning their evil Katrina neglect.

(Damn, and now the secret is out, just when Dick Cheney was getting better at aiming the hurricane machine, although he still has some work to do on aiming that shotgun.)


NO ONE SHOULD HAVE BEEN SURPRISED.

PM: Debunking Katrina Myths - March 2006 Cover Story: "Not the federal agencies tasked with preparing for catastrophes. Not the local officials responsible for aging levees and vulnerable populations. Least of all the residents themselves, who had been warned for decades that they lived on vulnerable terrain. But when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, it seemed as though the whole country was caught unawares. Accusations began to fly even before floodwaters receded. But facts take longer to surface. In the months since the storm, many of the first impressions conveyed by the media have turned out to be mistaken. And many of the most important lessons of Katrina have yet to be absorbed. But one thing is certain: More hurricanes will come. To cope with them we need to understand what really happened during modern America's worst natural disaster. POPULAR MECHANICS editors and reporters spent more than four months interviewing officials, scientists, first responders and victims. Here is our report.--THE EDITORS" long read, read more

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