Brown: It's Their Own Fault

"My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday [August 27] that Louisiana was dysfunctional," he said in his opening testimony.

Later in the testimony he said, "My mistake was in [not] recognizing that, for whatever reasons, ... Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco were reticent to order a mandatory evacuation."

To read more from this on the CNN site, click here.

And then read the posts on Nagin and Blanco. Sure there were problems. I've never seen a natural disaster that didn't have problems. Brown was a BAD appointment. No qualifications, just a FOG. (Friend of George) FEMA is broken and Katrina showed it.