Just as claimed here on these pages, NPR now confirms that on the Friday that Bush first visited the Katrina disaster zone, he tried to force local officials to make an unprecedented and unnecessary total capitulation to his control; the real purpose was to create documents that he could use to shift the blame onto them. He failed only because the world had been seeing images from the New Orleans Convention Center for two 2 1/2 days at this point; he was hardly in a position to threaten to withhold help. And yet he did. Listen to this, it’s in
two pieces, each about 10 minutes long:
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