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''Katrina exposed serious problems in our response capability at all levels of government,'' Bush said at joint White House news conference with the president of Iraq.
''To the extent the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility,'' Bush said.
The president was asked whether people should be worried about the government's ability to handle another terrorist attack given failures in responding to Katrina.
''Are we capable of dealing with a severe attack? That's a very important question and it's in the national interest that we find out what went on so we can better respond,'' Bush replied.
I get the feeling that Bush uses the term responsibility as an abstract concept, and not an action.
I guess it's a foreign word to him, so it's anybody's guess as to what it means.
But it almost sounds to me like he said "I promised to make us secure against terrorists attacks in our country, and I spent billions of your dollars to do it, so it's my fault that we are now just as unprotected as we were to begin with, and all your money has been wasted."
At least, that's what any rational person would mean by such an admission.
