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Originally Posted by smooth
a) publicly and easily available evidence exists that officials knew this disaster was a question of when, not if
b) the president claimed in his speech that no one conceived this disaster would occur
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<I>Please</I> for the sake of my sanity tell me that this entire thread isn't about Bush saying "no one" instead of "not many." If this is the case, this is the worst political discussion of all time. It's like someone arguing about a fastfood teller saying $5.50 instead of $5.51. Are we all supposed to take in that Bush is a blatant liar to the American people because he made an assumption that citizens would be smart enough to know that he meant "not many" by "no one?"
As someone else mentioned, NOLA hasn't been hit by a Cat 5 storm in 100 years, even after Cat 5 warnings. I don't think it's unreasonable to say that <B>most</B> people didn't think this storm would be this devastating, especially considering the past evidence.
-Lasereth