Convey a positive image as thousands drown in New Orleans

According to an AP report written by reporter Ted Bridis

"Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29. Brown said that among duties of these employees was to "convey a positive image" about the government's response for victims."

"FEMA response and recovery operations are a top priority of the department and as we know, one of yours," Brown wrote Chertoff. He proposed sending 1,000 Homeland Security Department employees within 48 hours and 2,000 within seven days.

Employees required a supervisor's approval and at least 24 hours of disaster training in Maryland, Florida or Georgia. "You must be physically able to work in a disaster area without refrigeration for medications and have the ability to work in the outdoors all day," Brown wrote.

The same day Brown wrote Chertoff, Brown also urged local fire and rescue departments outside Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi not to send trucks or emergency workers into disaster areas without an explicit request for help from state or local governments. Brown said it was vital to coordinate fire and rescue efforts.


Michael Brown is a good ole boy of Bush, who, prior to being given the job of director of FEMA probably due to his astute fund raising skills, was the chairman or manager of some type of Arabian Horse association. He had no disaster management skills whatsoever. Heck he probably didn't have any skills related to any form of governing. He was a Bush crony and fund raiser.

I can imagine Brown right now "We was fixin to convey a positive image so W could look good for the cameras.

Brown will be made the fall guy, even though a fall guy isn't needed in this case because his incompetence and that of Department of Homeland Security goon Chertoff has been proven.

It is truly sick to learn these things, but hey, America elected Bush to a second term, and this is what we get.