Firefighters not deployed: Told to STAND BESIDE BUSH on his PR tour!

[theearthisround]

http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=1010

As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta.

Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers.

Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA.

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But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.

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[Tesla]

1. I get it, the repugs don't get it without visuals

they need the firemen there to know that the president has help.....aka visuals:sarcasm:

[lateo]

2. What a FUCKER this President is...

Will the media rat him out?


No.