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New Video, Blanco Saying Levees Safe (Blanco assures Bush, all is well)
Forbes.com ^ | March 2, 2006 | LARA JAKES JORDAN and MARGARET EBRAHIM

Posted on 03/02/2006 6:42:26 PM PST by blogblogginaway

In the hectic, confused hours after Hurricane Katrina lashed the Gulf Coast, Louisiana's governor hesitantly but mistakenly assured the Bush administration that New Orleans' protective levees were intact, according to new video obtained by The Associated Press showing briefings that day with federal officials.

"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, according to the video. "We heard a report unconfirmed, I think, we have not breached the levee. I think we have not breached the levee at this time."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: blanco; daschlesaddened; katrina; katrinavideo; mediabias; neworleansaftermath; neworleansblame; schoolbus; unamoronablanco
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To: Mo1

bookmk ping


61 posted on 03/02/2006 8:08:38 PM PST by Dad yer funny
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To: pwatson
Huey Long's tumultuous career was cut short by an assassin's bullet in 1935. Shot by an assailant in a corridor of the very capitol he built, he died on Sep-

And the shooter may very well have saved the country.

62 posted on 03/02/2006 8:10:00 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: blogblogginaway

And lest we allow the world to forget - Bush and the administration told Blanco and Nagin to evacuate days before those two idiots finally made a move - and by then it was too late.


63 posted on 03/02/2006 8:10:16 PM PST by TheBattman (Islam (and liberalism)- the cult of Satan and a Cancer on Society)
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To: Freee-dame

"Once again this article neglects to say that the word used by the head of the Hurricane Service was "topped", not "breached." Yahoo news hates Bush along with the MSM. People who make their living with words should (and probably do) know the difference."

Say it again, dame ; )


64 posted on 03/02/2006 8:10:59 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: weegee

Reno and Castro were discussing cigars.

Under the table.


65 posted on 03/02/2006 8:11:52 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: bayouranger

That bitch Blanco lied to the President.

The sooner Nagin and Blanco are thrown into the streets, the better!!!


66 posted on 03/02/2006 8:11:59 PM PST by Emmet Fitzhume (Nagin is to stupidity as Blanco is to incompetence!!!)
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To: pwatson

"The failure was the perfect storm of what you get with 100% Democrat run government and mother nature."

RNC should use that quote.


67 posted on 03/02/2006 8:13:37 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: p23185

Late local news just did the same thing.


68 posted on 03/02/2006 8:15:02 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: blogblogginaway
Like I said yesterday.... There will be a new scandal every week. The DNC in the MSM has it out to get Bush. I just can't wait to hear the latest. Let's see we are about 3 months into this year. I expect 26 more so called "scandals".

It is so obvious what this is.... It's the Clintons hitting back from the 90s. Although in the 90s it was the truth most of the time vs now fiction.
69 posted on 03/02/2006 8:15:15 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: caryatid; IMRight

And don't anyone dare forget that Nagin had to steal equipment to be able to communicate.

The dumbass.


70 posted on 03/02/2006 8:18:39 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: blogblogginaway

Bush used a mind ray to make her think everything was OK while Cheney was working the Halliburton global warming generator (funded by the UAE) to kill the people of N.O. to take attention off the failures in Iraq.


71 posted on 03/02/2006 8:19:01 PM PST by PogySailor (CPL PogySailor coming home from Iraq in April!)
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To: blogblogginaway

I have no idea what the point is of these videos anyway. The canal flood walls broke. The city flooded. It was a big disaster. Governments were not able to deal with this huge unprecented disaster. Anyone who has lived in N.O. or knew anything about N.O. knew that the big one could come eventually.

If Clinton had been President during this he would have come out looking like a hero for caring so much. What he did or didn't do would be irrevelant.


72 posted on 03/02/2006 8:23:41 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Sprite518

I googled:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=bush+blamed&X=1

Results 1 - 10 of about 12,200,000 for bush blamed. (0.33 seconds)


73 posted on 03/02/2006 8:27:10 PM PST by freema (Proud Marine FRiend, Mom, Aunt, Sister, Friend, Wife, Daughter, Niece)
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To: blogblogginaway

i am so sick of this story. the people of new orleans were the first ones responsible. every person in the end has the responsibility to fend for their own safety. secondly, they had city and parrish governing officials that specialize in disasters who were not prepared in the slightest to do anything about a major evacuation. then, of course, the governor has the legal ability to order an evacuation. that NEVER happened. and lastly, you have the federal government. they should be prepared to provide logistical and technical and if necessary monetary assistance. they did that. and yet, somehow, it's the feds, and primarily bush and brown, that are to blame for the whole thing. this is just stupid.


74 posted on 03/02/2006 8:27:17 PM PST by GodfearingTexan
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To: blogblogginaway

Video Wars between incompetent government bureaucrats? Madison must be rolling in his grave.


75 posted on 03/02/2006 8:32:51 PM PST by Mad_Tom_Rackham (A Liberal: One who demands half of your pie, because he didn't bake one.)
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To: blogblogginaway

This will be too late to sway the sheeple. All of them now "know" Bush was warned and "did nothing to help the victims because he's lazy, stupid and a liar." Besides, he hates everyone who didn't vote for him.

All the local Houston media is interviewing the poor N.O. black folk who are still here in motels and they're being told Bush knew. They are hot. The dye is cast. *sigh*


76 posted on 03/02/2006 8:38:49 PM PST by Humidston (Democrats = Elitists who want to control everyone else's business.)
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To: blogblogginaway

The video I would like to see is the one where the MSM is reporting that "all is well" in New Orleans right after the hurricane past by.


77 posted on 03/02/2006 8:43:27 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: weegee

True, I think. States other than LA are trying to rebuild their economic base first. That's what gives them the money to help individuals.
Individual homes aren't as important as jobs. No one has ever been better off on welfare than when employed.


78 posted on 03/02/2006 8:43:36 PM PST by speekinout
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To: freema

LOL! You see its worst than I thought...


79 posted on 03/02/2006 8:46:47 PM PST by Sprite518
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To: freema

Did anyone see Mitch Landrieu's pic, registering for the NO mayoral election with his Wednesday ashes on his forehead?




Biden was on TV with a huge black cross of ashes on his forehead.......a pseudo-Catholic who voted consistently for partial birth abortion!


80 posted on 03/02/2006 8:46:50 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (Annoy Hillary , the Dems & the MSM.....Go here: http://www.electharris.org/)
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