Several on the left are saying that Bush lied when he said:

I myself thought we had dodged a bullet. You know why? Because I was listening to people probably over the airwaves say, “The bullet has been dodged.” And that was what I was referring to.

Daily Howler points out that none other than NBC’s Brian Williams said it on August 29th:

WILLIAMS: Well, you’ve just put your finger on the–what I think is the biggest problem, the biggest deficit: There’s no PA system. We’re running on generators here. There’s no effort to disseminate information. Very few radios and portable televisions, and we’re inside, basically, a concrete structure. It’s impossible to know. Most of them can sense that the storm has died down, but they don’t know that New Orleans dodged the big bullet from