President Bush, this morning, on Good Morning America:

    "I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."

Read the links (some lifted from Dan Froomkin’s fine Washington Post piece):

And as this earlier post pointed out, and which bears repeating until there is some accountability:

Money for the levees was slashed by the Bush administration, over the
repeated screams of New Orleans safety officials and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, to help pay for the invasion of Iraq.

UPDATE: Crooks And Liars has the video of Bush claiming no one saw this coming.

Compare with, in a final example, Saturday Night Live’s Mr. Bill, believe it or not, proving otherwise in a must-see spot recorded for a Louisiana save-the-wetlands campaign in 2004.  (Warning: watching this, which must have been darkly funny in 2004 and doubtless will be again in another 50 years, made me physically shake with sadness and anger.)