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To: i-node who wrote (544346)	1/16/2010 4:11:16 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576975

> If you've been watching, food and water is getting out to the people but very slowly. Right. Just like in NOLA. >> The place is in chaos. Right. Like in NOLA. >> its as if hell found a place on earth to set up shop. Just like in NOLA. Nope. Sorry dude, I thought your sudden interest in Haiti was peculiar. I should have known where you going with it. Once again, you are wrong, wrong, wrong. First of all there is no comparison between an earthquake and a hurricane. I've been in both. A quake is 10X worst. Haiti is a foreign country nearly a thousand miles away. While Rs would prefer NOLA was a foreign city, it is not. In spite of those significant differences, Obama has gotten US aid to Haitians faster than Bush got aid to residents of NOLA......not by much but considering the differences, its pretty impressive. BTW nearly every reporter on the ground in Haiti keeps pointing to the fact that the residents of P-au-P can not be first responders because of the devastation in that city. As was reported to you over and over again during Katrina, that was the same explanation for why residents of NOLA could not be first responders. And yet you refused to believe that very important aspect of disaster assistance. > The US military is not there yet and people are understandably afraid. No excuse for this. In NOLA, you had an incompetent governor refusing to allow the military to enter. Here, there IS no government. We can do whatever we want to. Still, where are the American troops? There are American soldiers in Haiti. However, the bulk have yet to arrive. Search and rescue was the first to arrive; followed by medical teams and then the military. Its flowing the way its supposed to flow but the quake has been so devastating....probably the worst in the Western Hemisphere in the last 100 years.....its impact is only now getting felt. The point, of course, is that while the scope is much larger than in NOLA, the problems are almost identical. Not the problems of a hurricane -- but the problems of a bigger disaster like a flood or quake. Hopefully, a few people around here will come to respect that GWB's administration acted not only quickly, but quite effectively, considering what he was faced with. Never. You are deluded by your partisan bias. I know what the US gov't can do. I saw what happened after LA's devastating quake and the response from the Feds. The NOLA fed response pales by comparison. Not surprisingly, you have very little experience in this area and yet you think you are the last word on the subject. I just wish our government had been prepared to help in THIS crisis because, as AC said, people are dying by the minute. He is, of course wrong -- there IS a reason for it. The reason is that it is very difficult to get help into a place that has no communications infrastructure, no open roads (more of a problem in NOLA than Haiti), no ability to move equipment in or out, and in both cases, no accessible equipment to move anyway. Inode, I am tired of arguing with you. You will never see reason on any subject. Its not in your nature.