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President Arrives In Texas
President Bush arrived in Texas Monday morning for briefings as Hurricane Gustav moved inland, and said emergency coordination was a “lot better” than when Hurricane Katrina struck three years ago.
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(September 1, 2008)—President Bush was in Austin Monday morning for a briefing on federal efforts in response to Hurricane Gustav, which he said were a “lot better” than when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

He warned that Gustav is a “serious event.”

At an emergency operations center in Austin, Texas, Mr. Bush said the federal government's job is to assist states affected by the storm.

He lauded Gulf Coast residents who heeded warnings to evacuate, saying he knows it's hard for citizens to "pull up stakes."

The storm made landfall this morning and is battering the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coasts with flood waters and winds of more than 100 miles per hour.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, greeted Mr. Bush as he got off Air Force One in shirtsleeves on a hot, sunny day in Austin.

The president is trying to prove his administration has learned the haunting lessons of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

The enduring memory of the 2005 hurricane isn't the ferocity of the storm, but the bungled government response that led to preventable deaths and chaos.

Mr. Bush originally had planned to address the Republican National Convention in Minnesota Monday night, but scrapped his convention plans to head to Austin and San Antonio.

He got an hour-long briefing aboard Air Force One and planned to learn more about the storm at a Texas Emergency Operations Center in Austin and a command center in San Antonio.

Asked if Mr. Bush was satisfied so far by the response of government at all levels, White House press secretary Dana Perino said he was "so far."

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Posted by: Just sayin is all Location: Ft Hood on Sep 3, 2008 at 07:54 AM

Hey Jimmie, Blah Blah Blah, same old whining. Bush didnt lead us down the wrong path and it wouldnt matter WHAT path he led us down, your too big of a coward to follow anyway. Thats the whole problem with the left. All talk and no follow through which is what got us attacked in the first place....oh wait, Bush did that too....
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Posted by: Jimmie Location: Temple on Sep 2, 2008 at 04:57 PM

Nagin DID order a mandatory evacuation for Katrina but only 80% of the 480,000 residents heeded it. Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine stated during the Senate hearings investigating the response to Katrina that "The Federal Government that was supposed to lead, direct, and coordinate the federal response was time and again, uncertain, late, and ineffective. Don't rewrite history. Bush has led us down the wrong path...what happened to WMDs he said was in Iraq? What happened to the nuclear program Hussein was supposedly building? Heck, Bush couldn't get the country right to go after Al Qaeda's leadership. They're still having a good ol' time prancing around in the tribal regions of Pakistan laughing at us.
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Posted by: Just sayin is all Location: Ft Hood on Sep 2, 2008 at 07:25 AM

I can not WAIT until he is EX-president Bush. That man has put up with way too much &^% for 8 years and has earned a well deserved rest. It was nice that we had a president who tried to do as promised, got us tax cuts and kept America free from terrorist attack for 7 years.
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