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Thursday, March 2, 2006 12:00 AM

On 9/11, on Iraq, on Katrina: Bush was warned

Videotape shows Bush was briefed on the levee breach that he said no one had anticipated.
Tim Grieve

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  • Thursday, March 2, 2006 07:47 AM

    The levees were not topped

    The water actually went through the levees, not over them. The city still flooded, but the distinction is important because it means the levees failed. The levees that the Army Corps of Engineers - part of the federal government - built incorrectly. Did us wrong.

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