Bush Demands Firefighters Stand as Props

This story from the Salt Lake Tribune is proof positive that the Bush administration sees America's first responders as its own personal political props rather than the frontline soldiers in securing this country and helping our citizens. As the story notes, hundreds of firefighters ready to help out in New Orleans have been confined to lectures at a FEMA seminar in Atlanta, with federal officials preventing them from heading to the disaster zone. Yet, as the last paragraph of the story notes, 50- of the firefighters are being released to stand in as President Bush's personal photo-op props.

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