AlterNet: Eight Big Lies About Katrina

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Eight Big Lies About Katrina
By Raphael Schweber-Koren and Jeremy Schulman, Media Matters for America.
Posted September 9, 2005.

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1. Bush: "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"

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2. Chertoff strained credulity in defense of Bush, claimed levee breaks and massive flooding came as a surprise -- more than 12 hours after local media reported them

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3. Brown: "We've provided food to the people at the Convention Center so that they've gotten at least one, if not two meals, every single day"

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4. Chertoff: "Apparently, some time on Wednesday, people started to go to the convention center spontaneously"

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