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George W. Bush visits disaster zone, 10 years after Katrina
CAIN BURDEAU Former President George W. Bush poses for photos with students at Warren Easton Charter University who wrote “The
JEFF AMY Great Deluge,” a detailed
Associated Press High School in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 28, 2015. Bush is in town to commemorate the 10th account of the first days af-
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — For- ter Katrina.
mer President George W. anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, which is Saturday. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) Bush didn’t help his image
Bush enjoyed sympathetic by initially flying over the
audiences in New Orleans either event, and made flooded and almost aban- bodies decomposed in the flooded city in Air Force
and Mississippi on Friday as no mention of his admin- doned before it reopened streets and thousands of One without touching
he returned to the region istration’s lackluster initial a year later as Warren people begged to be res- down, then saying “Heck-
where Hurricane Katrina response to Katrina, which Easton Charter High School. cued from their rooftops in uva job, Brownie” to praise
sank his popularity 10 years historians consider a low The comeback from Ka- New Orleans. In Mississippi, his ill-prepared Federal
ago. point for his presidency. trina has been uneven. relief came so slowly that Emergency Management
Bush avoided parts of New In New Orleans, he focused While Mississippi’s Gulf Biloxi’s Sun Herald news- Agency director, Michael
Orleans that have yet to re- instead on promoting char- Coast recovered all its paper published a front- Brown, who resigned short-
cover from the devastating ter schools. population and then some, page editorial, entitled ly thereafter.
storm, such as the Lower “Isn’t it amazing? The storm Bush and his team have “Help Us Now.” Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant
9th Ward, where President nearly destroyed New Or- been so deeply resented in The storm set off a “con- said Bush isn’t to blame for
Barack Obama mingled leans and yet, now, New New Orleans that Carnival fluence of blunders,” and the disaster that ultimately
with hundreds of residents Orleans is the beacon for goers displayed them in ef- Bush’s approval ratings killed more than 1,830 peo-
the day before. Bush did school reform,” Bush said figy at annual Mardi Gras never recovered, said ple. “I think he certainly did
not tour the federally man- at the city’s oldest public parades. Douglas Brinkley, a presi- a tremendous amount of
aged levees whose failures school, which was badly For days after the storm, dential historian at Rice good. It was just a tremen-
flooded 80 percent of the dous storm. No one was
city. prepared,” Bryant said.
Instead, he visited a school Bush’s administration even-
rebuilt with support from for- tually spent $140 billion on
mer first lady Laura Bush’s the recovery. On Friday, he
foundation, then flew to praised former Gov. Haley
Gulfport, Mississippi, honor- Barbour, former U.S. Sen.
ing police and firefighters Trent Lott and current U.S.
who saved lives after Ka- Sen. Thad Cochran, for
trina’s towering storm surge making sure much of it
swamped the coast. landed in Mississippi.
“The 10th anniversary is a In New Orleans, most city
good time to honor cour- schools had been founder-
age and resolve,” Bush ing before Katrina, suffering
said in Gulfport. “It’s also from pervasive corruption,
a good time to remember broken buildings and failing
we live in a compassionate grades. Only 56 percent of
nation.” the students graduated
Bush took no questions at high school on time.q
Pentagon: IS hacker killed in US strike also was recruiter
ROBERT BURNS porters at the Pentagon the Islamic State hacking sure that all our force un- in Florida. “He was involved
Associated Press that the hacker, British division. The group urged derstands what they are in actively recruiting ISIL
WASHINGTON (AP) — The citizen Junaid Hussain, also attacks on the individuals trying to do, even though sympathizers in the West
Islamic State group hacker was responsible for the re- listed. I believe they’ve not been to carry out lone wolf-style
killed in a U.S. airstrike in cent release of personally Asked about the incident successful, what they’re attacks,” he said, “... and
Syria this week had been identifying information on at a Pentagon news con- claiming,” Odierno said. specifically sought to di-
recruiting sympathizers in about 1,300 U.S. military ference Aug. 12, Gen. Ryder said that beyond rect violence against U.S.
the West to conduct “lone and government employ- Ray Odierno, who was the the significance of that in- service members and gov-
wolf” terrorist attacks, and ees. Army chief of staff at the cident, Hussain was seen ernment employees.”
his death eliminates a “sig- Ryder apparently was re- time, said he doubted that by the U.S. military as a key Ryder said Hussain was
nificant threat” to the U.S., ferring to the posting on- it amounted to a cyberat- IS operative. killed Monday in an air-
a military official said Fri- line about two weeks ago tack. “We have taken a signifi- strike in Raqqa, the city the
day. of certain personal details “But I take it seriously, be- cant threat off the battle- Islamic State group consid-
Air Force Col. Patrick Ry- of U.S. service members cause it is clear what they field,” Ryder said, speak- ers its capital. Ryder said
der, spokesman for Cen- and government employ- are trying to do, and so it ing by phone from Central Hussain was the only per-
tral Command, told re- ees by a group calling itself is important for us to make Command headquarters son killed in the airstrike.q
