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In an unexpected move, President Bush accepted responsibility for the complete failure of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

“Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government,” [President] Bush said. “And to the extent that the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility.”

“I want to know what went right and what went wrong,” [President] Bush added. “I want to know how to better cooperate with state and local government, to be able to answer that very question that you asked: Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack or another severe storm?”

Interesting … I honestly thought the administration would play the blame and and pass the buck onto Mike Brown, the now former head of FEMA. This acceptance of failure was probably one of the smartest decisions made by the Bush administration in this disaster thus far.

[via NY Times]

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