Topped vs. breached

Facts for the factless liberals like CC.

An AP video that Bush Derangement Syndrome sufferers are crowing about lately can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO0p5CNTtqc

Notice that the expert at the end of the report refers to the levees being topped, not breached. There's a difference. It's like comparing your bathtub being filled to the top and slopping over the edge and your bathtub being filled to the top and someone taking a sledgehammer to the side of it.

More facts from Kevin at Wizbang:

And that's where the dishonesty in the AP story really lies. Contrary to popular belief New Orleans DID NOT take the brunt of Katrina. The Gulf Coast in Mississippi had that honor. As it veered east of New Orleans the force that Katrina hit the New Orleans area with was the equivalent of a Category 1 (or possibly Category 2) hurricane. On the video those officials are discussing a direct hit of a Category 5 storm, just as Paul was. A Category 5 storm didn't hit New Orleans...

When the President said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" he probably should have been more specific for the casual arm-chair quarterbacking of the left. What he should have said was, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees in New Orleans from a Category 1 hurricane, since the levees were built to withstand the storm surge from a Category 3 hurricane."

Even more here.

UPDATE: Yet more at Captain's Quarters (fyi, two links there) and Powerline.

UPDATE 2: Here.