What the hell, it's mostly poor people anyway...

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."
-- President George W. Bush, August 31, 2005

Uh, come again? To wit:

"No one can say they didn't see it coming
"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."
--Sidney Blumenthal, 09/01/05 "Der Spiegel" Article

"Washing Away
"It's a matter of when, not if. Eventually a major hurricane will hit New Orleans head on, instead of being just a close call. It's happened before and it'll happen again."
-- SPECIAL REPORT from THE TIMES-PICAYUNE (originally published before Katrina)

Postscript: On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
(Ummm, more like Herbert Hoover, I think)