How history will remember George Bush:

Bush presidency defined by rush into Iraq and slow response to Katrina

Maureen Dowd

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NEW ORLEANS - Doing his stations of the Katrina cross, President Bush went for breakfast with Mayor Ray Nagin at Betsy's Pancake House.

As Bush tried to squeeze past some tightly placed tables, a waitress, Joyce Labruzzo, teased him, saying, "Mr. President, are you going to turn your back on me?"

"No ma'am," he replied, with a laugh and a pause for effect. "Not again."

It was a rare unguarded moment - showing that his towering Katrina failure is lodged somewhere in the front of his cerebral cortex - in a trip of staged, studiously happy settings, steering away from the wreckage of buildings and people so searing for anyone who loved the saucy and sauce-laden New Orleans of old.

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History will be even less kind to the Republican Congress that let him get away with this.