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[Human Torch]

Bush: New Orleans may need a decade

NEW ORLEANS, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- As he headed for the Gulf Coast on Monday, U.S. President George Bush told an interviewer he expects the rebuilding of New Orleans to take a decade.

Bush planned to spend the anniversary of the U.S. Gulf Coast landfall of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans after a visit to Biloxi, Miss. It was his 13th visit to the devastated area.

"We can rebuild buildings, the question is can we rebuild its soul," he told April Ryan of American Urban Radio Networks. "We can. I believe, 10 years from now April, you and I will be thinking about our time here, and trying to remember what it was like 10 years ago"

Bush came under fire last year for apparently ignoring Katrina immediately after New Orleans flooded and then flying over the city in Air Force One.

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U.S. President George W. Bush (C) talks to boat builders during a visit to United States Marine Inc. in Gulfport, Mississippi August 28, 2006. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)



President Bush makes remarks on the Gulf Coast recovery in Biloxi, Mississippi, August 28, 2006. (Jim Young/Reuters)



U.S. President George W. Bush (R) shakes hands with a boat builder during a visit to United States Marine Inc. in Gulfport, Mississippi August 28, 2006. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

[niyad]

1. 13 visits to the gulf? I don't seem to remember that many. I am quite

certain that the residents of the gulf states won't have any trouble remembering their time there, unlike that coke-addled poseur.