Condoleezza Rice. May 16, 2002.
"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center."
George W. Bush. September 1, 2005.
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees [in New Orleans]."
Dick Cheney. June 19, 2006.
"I don't think anybody anticipated the level of violence that we've encountered [in Iraq]."
Anybody? Maybe they're not talking to the right people. Or, at least, hire a new speechwriter (read: excuse-maker).
Archived: I briefly blogged about this nagging revival of recent history in Bush's world last September.
