FEMA CHIEF TOASTS OWN NUTS

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This guy must have gone to the George Bush school of seeing what he wants to see.


FEMA chief: Victims bear some responsibility

Brown pleased with effort: 'Things are going relatively well'



(CNN) -- The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates.

Michael Brown also agreed with other public officials that the death toll in the city could reach into the thousands.

"Unfortunately, that's going to be attributable a lot to people who did not heed the advance warnings," Brown told CNN.

"I don't make judgments about why people chose not to leave but, you know, there was a mandatory evacuation of New Orleans," he said.