From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sat, 04 Mar 2006 10:51:53 -0500, Robert G Lewis
 wrote:

>
> "Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
> news:op.s5vrp5ukeipai0{at}dsl40.bgtnvtpl.sover.net...
>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:25:46 -0500, John Cuccia 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:03:50 -0500, "Gary Wiltshire"

>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The point I'm making is that in any situation a president
can be told
>>>> one
>>>> thing by 99 out of 100 experts and the 1 out of 100 who
happened to be
>>>> right, even if only that one time, is portrayed as a prophet.
>>>
>>> In this case, though, I doubt very, very seriously that he got
>>> contradictory advice.
>>>
>>> I imagine that the only people who may have been willing to predict
>>> that a New Orleans levee would *not* fail during a hurricane are on
>>> the Bush WMD-detection team.
>>
>> Wrong -- a video just surfaced on the news showing Blanco opining that
>> the
>> levies hadn't failed -- long after they had.
>>
>> --
>> Gary Wiltshire
>
> Offering an opinion, an incorrect opinion, is not the same as stating a
> levee would NOT fail. So John's statement is correct.
>
>

She was obviously surprised when they did.

--
Gary Wiltshire

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