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President '''[[George W. Bush]]''' was nearing the end of a [[George W. Bush: The War President is Missing in Action|month-long vacation]] at his Crawford, Texas, ranch on August 29, 2005, when '''[[Hurricane Katrina]]''' struck the Gulf Coast of the United States.
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==Chain of Events==
===[[Hurricane Katrina: Weather Warnings]]===
===Bush Emerges and Makes His Worst Speech Ever===
:"A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished." --Michael Rivero.
On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, while delivering his third speech "in just over a week defending his Iraq policies," while "standing against a backdrop of the imposing USS Ronald Reagan, the newest aircraft carrier in the Navy's fleet," President Bush [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-ap-bush,0,4717028.story answered] "growing anti-war protests with a fresh reason for American troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields that he said would otherwise fall under the control of [[terrorist]] extremists."
