The Government failed to adequately plan, prepare, warn, protect, and save the Lives of Americans in a Natural Disaster that has now become a Man made Catastrophe. 'This is not just incompetence, this is dereliction of duty.' Why do I say this? This National Natural Disaster was compounded by the obvious shortsightedness of our Federal Government for underfunding a Levee project that was designed to protect against a Category 5 Hurricane. The funds were redirected to Iraq to help non Americans in a war of choice. This single act of callousness is something the Federal government must be made to be responsible for and accountable for. This single action may have turned a National Natural Disaster into a National catastrophe. The final death toll may be staggering. The financial cost to the US may become crippling. There is plenty of blame to go around, but ultimately when a catastrophe on a NATIONAL scale occurs it falls squarely on the shoulders of the Commander and Chief. That man is George Bush.