Bush Tours New Orleans
Bush on the scene in New Orleans.
"The storm didn't discriminate and neither will the recovery effort," Bush said.
"Look, there will be plenty of time to play the blame game," he said. "That's what you're trying to do. You're trying to say somebody is at fault. And, look, I want to know. I want to know exactly what went on and how it went on, and we'll continually assess inside my administration."
"We've got plenty of troops to do both," the president said. "It is preposterous to claim that the engagement in Iraq meant there weren't enough troops."
"We need to make sure that this country is knitted up as well as it can be in order to deal with significant problems and disasters," Bush said.
"Meantime, we've got to keep moving forward. And I know there has been a lot of second-guessing. I can assure you I'm not interested in that. What I'm interested in is solving problems. And there'll be time to take a step back and to take a sober look at what went right, what didn't go right."
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