Reply #44: Has DU really become that humor impaired? [View All]

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The phrase "nobody could have predicted that (insert something that the Bush administration was repeatedly warned would happen)" has been used by the Bush administration so many times I can't believe they can still say it without laughing.

"Nobody could have predicted that Osama bin Laden would fly airplanes into buildings" - except that the president was warned repeatedly of this very thing in the months and weeks before 9/11/

"Nobody could have predicted that the levees would fail" - except that engineers had been warning of this exact thing for years before Katrina, and the city of New Orleans itself had begged the government for money to repair the levees, in vain.

Now we have, "Nobody could have predicted that an unregulated mortgage market drunk on risky loans might collapse."

Duh.