Cheney's "Katrina exercise"

[sagehen]

>>>From Reuters...
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>http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050910/ts_nm/katrina_wrap_dc
>Rescuers collect dead, Cheney sounds upbeat
>[...]
>Vice President Dick Cheney visited an emergency management center in
>Austin, Texas, and said the government was finally gaining control of the
>situation.
>"I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina
>exercise. We've got a lot of work ahead of us," he said.
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>This tone-deafness might explain why Cheney was kept under wraps for the
>first week or so of the Katrina, um, exercise.
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>--Ben Zimmer
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