Government Statements Don’t Jive
Things just don’t add up.
FEMA and the rest of the federal government said from the onset of Katrina, they had taken all of the supposedly appropriate action. But, the authorization for troops was not released until Thursday.
How many times have we heard, we never imagined things would be this bad? Disregard for a moment all of the published reports by the Times-Picayune, et. al., that prior drills/tests forecasted exactly what has happened as a result of Katrina.
The Army Corps of Engineers have officially stated the levees were designed to withstand a category 3 hurricane. Katrina was a category 5 until just moments before landfall.
I guess no one in the Bush administration could do 3 - 5 = -2. That’s a deficit in my book. Isn’t that sufficient information within itself to indicate big trouble?
Furthermore, Lt. Gen Carl Stock, chief of engineers for the Army Corps of Engineers stated, "[It] is my opnion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of the business district and the French Quarter would have still taken place."
So, on what basis are all the comments from high level government sources that they had no idea things could be as bad as they are?
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