" OReilly and Hunt "
Col Hunt, after his investigation :
Gov Blanco had her Louisiana National Guard troops and assests prepositioned-but, did not pull the trigger.
President Bush should have realized the collapse of state govt ( my words ) and federalized troops.
Legal considerations here, but, that could have been overcome.
Louisiana National Guard were staged 30 miles north of NO- Governor had no eyes on the ground, no communication in NO to assess the situation-people not evacing, levees breaking,etc.
Everyone had 5 days notice storm was coming at state level and no prep was done.
Blame falls on Gov Blanco, Gov Blanco, Gov Blanco and secondarily -President Bush for trusting that Democrat Governor Blanco had situation in hand.
After having to correct people who believed there was only 24-36 hours warning I have to correct people that think there was 5 days or more of warning...
5 Days before it hit Louisiana, Katrina was a tropical depression in the Bahamas.
Some of the models at that time had Katrina going up the east coast and there was only one with a Louisiana hit. There should have been no reasonable expectation of any storm-specific prep at that time.
Louisiana reasonably had about 60 hours of warning for the storm.