[Amelia]

Understand that I think primary responsibility for this whole thing lies with Nagin & Blanco for not getting people out of NOLA before this all started....

But seems to me I saw Chertoff on CNN last night, just before they announced Rehnquist's death, and he was still saying "no one knew it would be this bad," and for that I think he needs to go, because if he doesn't know it's been predicted for years as one of the top 3 potential disasters in the U.S., he's too clueless to be in that job.

[snugs]

There are many ways to take what Chertoff was meaning in no one expected it to be that bad.

He could have been making oblique reference to the local authorities handling of it or the fact that many people did not think that the levies would break and therefore the extensive flooding which in NO is the main problem.

[Darnright]

>But seems to me I saw Chertoff on CNN last night, just before they announced Rehnquist's death, and he was still saying "no one knew it would be this bad," and for that I think he needs to go, because if he doesn't know it's been predicted for years as one of the top 3 potential disasters in the U.S., he's too clueless to be in that job.<

Amelia, take his statement, and put it in the context that "no one knew the incompetence of the Governor and the Mayor, and the entire heirarchy of Louisiana was this complete", and I think you'll get an entirely different meaning to his statement.

Makes his statement pretty on target, doesn't it?