Departamento de estupidez congénita (Katrina)

En serio, uno no sería capaz de inventarse estas paridas aposta para hacer quedar en ridículo a la FEMA o la administración Bush en general. Sin embargo, este artículo del Salt Lake Tribune supera todo lo que un humorista podría crear:

ATLANTA - Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?"
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.

Vamos, que los van a usar para repartir propaganda. Bomberos, gente entrenada, voluntaria, dura como nadie, a repartir folletos. Pero esperad, que puede ser peor. La noticia acaba:

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.

Posar para una foto con el presidente. Acojonante. Después algunos se preguntan dónde está la incompetencia federal...

Nota: la local y estatal la localicé ya en un post anterior, por cierto.