i'm ambivilent

i don't know if he's sincere or not. i don't know if someone 'made' him say this or not. if he said this just 24 hours or even 48 hours after katrina, i WOULD have forgiven him (i who lost nothing other than some faith) for this. there would be plenty of time AFTER the clean up to point fingers and shake my head from side to side. i WANT to believe him. i really do. i want him to KNOW it was HIS fault. i want him to make sure the proper people are in place for any jobs he has appointed. i don't EVER want this to happen in MY country again. did he say this because he knows people (from his side now as well) have lost total trust in him? also, why the HELL was the 'president' of iraq by his side? this is an AMERICAN issue. for US alone.

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The President
President Says He's Responsible in Storm Lapses

By ELISABETH BUMILLER and RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: September 14, 2005

WASHINGTON, Sept. 13 - President Bush said on Tuesday that he bore responsibility for any failures of the federal government in its response to Hurricane Katrina and suggested that he was unsure whether the country was adequately prepared for another catastrophic storm or terrorist attack.

"Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government, and to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility," Mr. Bush said in an appearance in the East Room with President Jalal Talabani of Iraq. "I want to know what went right and what went wrong."
In response to a reporter who asked if Americans, in the wake of the hurricane, should be concerned about the government's ability to respond to another disaster or a terrorist attack, Mr. Bush said: "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? And that's a very important question."
Throughout his nearly five years in office, Mr. Bush has resisted publicly acknowledging mistakes or shortcomings, and his willingness in this case to edge up to a buck-stops-here statement, however conditional, was evidence of how shaken his presidency has been by the political fallout from the government's handling of the storm.
It also set the stage for a White House effort to pivot from dealing with urgent rescue and relief efforts to setting out a vision of how the federal government could help rebuild devastated communities and re-establish Mr. Bush's image as a leader............