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media type="youtube" key="FxgNuD5M9js?fs=1" height="385" width="480" align="right"George W. Bush On Tuesday, August 30, 2005, while delivering his third speech "in just over a week defending his Iraq policies," while "standing against a backdrop of the imposing USS Ronald Reagan, the newest aircraft carrier in the Navy's fleet," President Bush answerd "growing anti-war protests with a fresh reason for American troops to continue fighting in Iraq: protection of the country's vast oil fields that he said would otherwise fall under the control of terrorist extremists. "It was also announced during the speech that, due to the "devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina" in the Gulf Coast, he "was cutting his August vacation short to return to Washington to personally oversee the federal response effort." However, it was not until the following day, on Wednesday, August 31, 2005, long past the time when Katrina had arrived, struck New Orleans, and moved inland away from the Gulf Coast, that President Bush actually made even a cursory 35-minute flyover in Air Force One to view the devastation in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. President Bush, having made his flyover two days earlier, finally visited the Gulf Coast on Friday, September 2, 2005, the **fifth day after Hurricane Katrina struck** the Gulf Coast. He made his first stop at the Mobile Regional Airport in Alabama, where he gave a briefing on Hurricane Katrina: