UNITED STATES: Report says US govt unprepared for Katrina
published: Thursday | February 16, 2006

WASHINGTON, (REUTERS):

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT was unprepared to react to the catastrophic impact of Hurricane Katrina and quicker involvement by President George W. Bush might have improved the response, according to a congressional report written by Republicans and released yesterday.

The report by the U.S. House of Representative's panel investigating the storm is critical of the response by governments at all levels calling the botched effort "a failure of initiative."