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Howard Dean: Katrina Deaths Bush's Fault

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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean is blaming President Bush for the hundreds of deaths that resulted from what he said was the Federal Emergency Management Agency's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

"The Bush administration just went back to turning [FEMA] into a dumping ground for people who evidently didn't have anything else to do," Dean told the Fox News Channel's Alan Colmes on Tuesday.

"And it's really too bad because now people have paid for that with their lives," he added.

When Colmes reminded him that Bush said he accepted personal responsibility for any federal shortcomings in the response to Katrina, Dean shot back:

"But there's a lot of people dead and there's a lot of people without their homes. Those people needed help on time. They didn't need help and somebody to take responsibility two weeks after the fact."

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