Oh, really?

A freely available EDITORIAL
By USA TODAY

Orignally published 8.16.06
Updated 8.16.06 10:32 AM ET

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would...try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile"— then-National Security adviser Condoleezza Rice, White House briefing, May 16, 2002.

"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"— President Bush about Katrina, on ABC's Good Morning America, Sept. 1, 2005

"I don't think anyone could have anticipated the sectarian violence"— Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq, to The New York Times, Aug. 6, 2006.
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As the unfortunate statements above show, President Bush and people who work for him have a disheartening habit of being astonished by the arrival of disasters they didn't see coming but others did.

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