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BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Americans 'disturbed' by Katrina: "In a BBC interview, Mr Clinton said Americans were troubled by the inadequacy of Washington's response.
He said the unequal suffering of poor and black people is likely to make the US more sensitive to social divisions.
Mr Clinton also said his efforts to tackle global poverty and Aids had been harmed by US and UK policy on Iraq.
'Painful'
'Americans were profoundly disturbed by the losses suffered and by the sense that maybe our government did not perform as well as it should have,' Mr Clinton told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
'There was a profound sense of grief at the magnitude of the losses and not only the death but the dislocation of a million people. 'And I think people were very sensitive to the fact that it disproportionately affected Americans of colour, principally African Americans, and low income Americans."
He said the unequal suffering of poor and black people is likely to make the US more sensitive to social divisions.
Mr Clinton also said his efforts to tackle global poverty and Aids had been harmed by US and UK policy on Iraq.
'Painful'
'Americans were profoundly disturbed by the losses suffered and by the sense that maybe our government did not perform as well as it should have,' Mr Clinton told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
'There was a profound sense of grief at the magnitude of the losses and not only the death but the dislocation of a million people. 'And I think people were very sensitive to the fact that it disproportionately affected Americans of colour, principally African Americans, and low income Americans."
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