"I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees"

So when are the worshippers of the neocon death cult going to finally admit that their president, the one they've chosen to follow blindly off a cliff, is a common sociopathic liar?

In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared."

The footage - along with seven days of transcripts of briefings obtained by The Associated Press - show in excruciating detail that while federal officials anticipated the tragedy that unfolded in New Orleans and elsewhere along the Gulf Coast, they were fatally slow to realize they had not mustered enough resources to deal with the unprecedented disaster.

Crooks and Liars has the video, and it's devastating. Just devastating. Bush was clearly informed by yes, Michael Brown, the guy who's suffered the slings and arrows lo these last six months, that this was going to be "the big one." And Bush tells him they'll have everything they need -- then goes back to his vacation while the largely black population of New Orleans is left homeless or dead.

We all owe Michael Brown an apology. In fact, as much as I adore Jim Earl, and as hard as I laughed at Rapture Watch on the last day Morning Sedition was on radio, his blurb at the top of the page has to be taken down. Brown may be guilty of not jumping up and down and shrieking for this president to take the threat of this storm seriously, but then, he was working for a man who forbids anyone around him to tell him anything that conflicts with his delusions.

Harriet Miers hands George W. Bush a Presidential Daily Briefing that says "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" -- and he ignores it, then sends Condi Rice out to say "I don't think anyone anticipated that people would fly airplanes into buildings" -- when many people anticipated just that. Almost 3000 Americans died as a result of George W. Bush's willful ignorance. Michael Brown tells him that Katrina is going to be the monster storm that had been predicted for years -- and Bush goes back on vacation, then goes on ABC News and says, "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees". Over a thousand Americans are dead from that storm, and tens of thousands more are homeless.

Anyone see a pattern here?

Why on earth does anyone think this president can or will keep Americans one iota safer, with this kind of track record?

I don't want to hear anything more from this president about Saddam Hussein being a butcher. I don't want to hear anything more from this president about how Saddam gassed his own people. I don't want to hear George W. Bush talk about other leaders being evil ever again.

Because it takes one to know one.