E-Mail This Article to a Friend QUOTES + NUMBERS Bush's ignorance

"[H]ad I had any inkling whatsoever that the people were going to fly airplanes into buildings we would have moved heaven and earth to save the country." George W. Bush, April 13, 2004.

"Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al Qaeda’s Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives (C-4 and semtex) into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), or the White House."

Report prepared for US intelligence, September, 1999.

"I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees."

George W. Bush, September 1, 2005.

"It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished."

Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, emergency-management chief Walter Maestri, quoted in the Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.

"I glance at the headlines, just to get kind of a flavor... I rarely read the stories."

(Just a little reminder) George W. Bush, September, 2003.

10,000

Number of body bags the civil defense says it has on hand in New Orleans.