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by Charles Carreon
1:21am, September 6, 2005
Michael Chertoff is really a fine team
player, the kind of guy who will get the Medal of Honor someday, just like
George Tenet, who sold the CIA's credibility down the crapper, and Paul
Bremer, who declared victory and abandoned Iraq to wallow in bloodshed.
Michael Chertoff will achieve this high honor because of his demonstrated
ability to blandly redefine truth as whatever is convenient to say. He has
now blandly stated that no one could've foreseen this whole disaster, but
the University of Louisiana did, and shared its conclusions in a huge
article in Scientific American called “Drowning New Orleans,” in the
October 2001 issue. The article estimated a possible 100,000 dead, based
on a worst case scenario computer simulation that looks just like an
aerial view of the post-Katrina waterscape that has replaced the New
Orleans city grid. The water depths achieved, ranging up to 20 feet in
depth, were also predicted by the University's simulation. So what's not
to foresee, Mike?
CNN wrote:
Chertoff: Katrina scenario did not exist. However, experts for years had
warned of threat to New Orleans
Monday, September 5, 2005; Posted: 2:55 p.m. EDT (18:55 GMT)
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff talks with reporters Saturday
during a news conference. New Orleans (Louisiana) Michael Chertoff
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Defending the U.S. government's response to Hurricane
Katrina, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that
government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur.
But in fact, government officials, scientists and journalists have warned
of such a scenario for years.
Chertoff, fielding questions from reporters, said government officials did
not expect both a powerful hurricane and a breach of levees that would
flood the city of New Orleans.
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