Bush: ‘I take responsibility’ for U.S. failures
Tuesday, September 13, 2005; Posted: 12:43 p.m. EDT (16:43 GMT)
“Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government and to the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility,” Bush said during a joint news conference with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.
from cnn.com.
now, let’s not all be too gracious about this, ok? Because to the extent that people died in the gulf coast region, I think TALKING about responsibility and TAKING responsibility are two very different birds.
