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Firefighter photo op - Bush style

With each day bringing news of further indolence and tragedy, I tend to avert my eyes rather than risk Katrina overkill.

But Chip Gibbons' excellent Binary Circumstance has an item that caught my eye and raised my ire - an article from Billmon’s Whiskey Bar that leaves the picture to do the talking:

Bush's commandeering of 50 firemen, sent to fight fires in New Orleans but hauled off for a photo op.