{"id":3313,"date":"2007-08-29T09:36:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T15:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:06:57","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:06:57","slug":"brown-i-told-bush-and-chertoff-us-wasnt-ready-for-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/brown-i-told-bush-and-chertoff-us-wasnt-ready-for-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown: I Told Bush And Chertoff US Wasn&#8217;t Ready For Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/brown_hmed_3p.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/brown_hmed_3p.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>CNN<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;BROWN: Well, a lot of anger because I recall telling Secretary Chertoff back in 2004 and 2005 that this country was not ready for a catastrophic event. I had been to the tsunami in southeast Asia, and I came back and I told the president and I told Chertoff that we&#8217;re not ready. We don&#8217;t have the plans, the processes in place to do this.<\/p>\n<p>And I think two years later, when we look at these photographs, it&#8217;s proof that we&#8217;re not ready for this kind of thing. And I think, too, when you look at &#8212; right now, they&#8217;re trying to redo the natural response plan. This is the fifth rewrite of this thing since DHS was created. We&#8217;re in the middle of hurricane season, they put one out without even talking to state and local governments. It shows that DHS is just completely dysfunctional.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2007\/08\/28\/brown-i-told-bush-and-ch_n_62225.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN &#8230;BROWN: Well, a lot of anger because I recall telling Secretary Chertoff back in 2004 and 2005 that this country was not ready for a catastrophic event. I had been to the tsunami in southeast Asia, and I came back and I told the president and I told Chertoff that we&#8217;re not ready. 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