In an interview with CNN former president Bill Clinton spoke out on the current crisis.
"Our government failed those people in the beginning, and I take it now there is no dispute about it," Clinton told CNN. "One hundred percent of the people recognize that -- that it was a failure."
""We've got the departments on the ground, we've got the military on the ground, we've got a chance to do it right now, and we should do it right," he said. "And then in an appropriate time we should analyze what went wrong and why and what changes should be made."
As with the 9/11 commission charged with looking at the events leading up to and after the September 11, 2001 attacks, Clinton suggested a bipartisan Katrina commission be formed. It would investigate what went wrong and determine "what is the best structure and what are the best personnel decisions" to make in emergency management, he said.
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CNN article )
Now this is pretty harsh critic for a former president. I know many are unhappy about "Big Dog" and his closeness with the Bush family but there is an unwritten rule that former presidents do not critisze their successor. Seen in that light, it's a stab from Clinton to the current administration.
Apparantly George W. Bush follows suit with regards to an investigation... he has told a BBC team
he will lead an investigation into how the Hurricane Katrina disaster was handled.
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BBC article )
In other words this is Bush just coopting an other Democratic idea as his own and then defanging it and turning it on its inventors. Beware for Greeks bearing gifts! Well have to look out that he doesn't politicize it and that Gov. Blanco end up standing in the game of musical chairs which inevitably will follow...