IMHO all of those guys are pinheads and didn't/don't have friggin clue. No offense to anyone but the government folks at all levels local, state and Fed were asleep at the switch and they all should feel guilty on some level. Bush looked the fool as he applauded the guy on camera when everyone knew things were not going well at best. The reporters and the scientists all told the govt types on all levels that a cat 4 or 5 was going to hit someday and when it does the levee and pump systems were going to fail and 10,000s would drown, 100,000s would be displaced and 10s of billions of $$ of damage was going to happen.
It would have cost single digit billions to shore up the levee systems and pumps and they said it was not "worth it" in their risk analysis but now it is going to be 100s of billions of restoration costs and economic/ecological damage.
Noone wanted to believe them. Denial is a very pervasive and powerful psychological barrier to action. The LSU scientist and hurricane expert was almost in tears last night on TV talking about it. Noone would believe him and the scoffed at him including the FEMA folks. Sad.
Unfrigginbelievable
"DENIAL AIN'T JUST A RIVER IN EGYPT"! Personally, I recognized a passive person, the first time I ever saw him. When Bush was commending him on TV, you could tell that he knew that he was undeserving!! He was obviously, uncomfortable with it all. I really believe that what has happened, such be investigated as a CRIMINAL matter! People have suffered, are missing and died, largely due to inexcusible ignorance! :nono1: 
