Bush takes responsibility for Katrina response!!!

Finally, Bush takes responsibility for something that he could have prevented or rather reduced if not prevented. Who knows, with Bush taking responsibility on this issue, maybe one day he will say sorry for going into Iraq, ah well one can only hope. The following post will be from the ctv.ca website, where it discusses that finally Bush has done the proper thing and has taken the responsibility for the horribly slow response to the Katrina incident.

With much of New Orleans still in disarray, U.S. President George Bush said he takes "full responsibility" for the government's response to hurricane Katrina.
Bush is in New Orleans as the city marks the one-year anniversary of one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history.

"I take full responsibility for the federal government's response," he told reporters Tuesday.
His comments come as vigils and memorials were held Tuesday. Bells tolled across the city, marking the moment one of the flood walls was breached and water engulfed the northern edges of the city.

Later, a jazz funeral will float down the city's downtown streets to mark the deaths of more than 1,500 people. Tens of thousands more were displaced in the aftermath of the storm.
It was on Aug. 29, 2005, when Katrina blew into the U.S. Gulf Coast as a Category 4 storm. It left a path of destruction from New Orleans in Louisiana to Mississippi.
In New Orleans, the storm exposed a weak levee system. Water spilling through breached levees flooded 80 per cent of the city -- in some places water was four metres deep.
Mayor Ray Nagin told a crowd gathered at City Hall that today was a hard day for everyone.

"Trust me. We will get through it. We will get through it together," he said.
A year after the storm, roughly a third of the schools, hospitals and libraries remain closed in New Orleans, according to the Brookings Institution, a Washington-based think tank.
Many are still unable to return home and are either living in FEMA trailers or calling a new place home.

Bush, who still faces criticism for the government's slow federal response to the disaster, visited Mississippi on Monday.

A poll in early August showed that two-thirds of Americans still don't approve of the way their president handled Katrina.

However, Bush defended the response, and said New Orleans was recovering.
"Amazing what the world looked like then and what it looks like now," Bush said. "People can't imagine what the world looked like then."
Bush noted that challenges remain, since many homes in the neighbourhood have yet to be rebuilt.

Meanwhile, there are fears that tropical storm Ernesto could strengthen into a hurricane and hit Louisiana. It's expected to make landfall on Florida's west coast by midweek.
The mayor of New Orleans summed up the city's mood at a gathering in the Lower Ninth Ward.
"Ernesto got to go somewhere else," Nagin told the crowd. "We done had our time last year."
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco warned residents to get out of the way if the hurricane swung back towards them, saying they "take no storms for granted."

On Sunday, a memorial unveiled in the Lower Ninth Ward included a blue pole showing the height flood waters reached. It also included the frame of a house with a sign in the window promising to return home.