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To: i-node who wrote (545254)	1/21/2010 12:32:25 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578819

Can we not airdrop a few pallets of water into the parks where these people are dying? They already are. They have been doing it for days now. There are 3 million people homeless without food and water. Many thousands are injured. This is a crisis of apocalyptic proportions.....probably the worst disaster in the last century. There are problems and there will continue to be serious problems for a long time........get use to it. And let me add, there are some seismologists who believe that when the aftershocks are as bad as the 'initial' quake, the 'initial' quake may actually be a foreshock of a much bigger earthquake. Today, Haiti had a 6.1 aftershock. The initial quake was a 6.9. If Haiti keeps getting aftershooks that fill in the gap between 6.1 and 6.9, a much worst quake may be in the offing.

To: i-node who wrote (545254)	1/21/2010 12:43:07 PM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1578819

Soldiers told to STOP giving out food to quake victims !!!! Aid NGOs Complain Military is Doing Their Job By Doug From Instapundit yesterday: HAITI RELIEF? Soldiers told to stop handing out food. “Food handouts were shut off Tuesday to thousands of people at a tent city here when the main U.S. aid agency said the Army should not be distributing the packages. It was not known whether the action reflected a high-level policy decision at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or confusion in a city where dozens of entities are involved in aid efforts.” One is likely to assume that the lack of a cohesive government down there and logistical problems would be to blame. However, one of Glenn’s readers replied with his first-hand experiences. The “aid” agencies did the same thing in Afghanistan. Being a logistics specialist, I volunteered to help an American NGO with rebuilding schools, and was on the ground in Kabul in January of ‘02. (I later ended up in charge of UNICEF’s warehouse/distribution operation for all of the new school supplies…leaving me with a complete and total disdain for all things UN-related.) For the NGO community, to be seen co-operating with the US military was the kiss of death. NGO co-ordination meetings specifically warned against co-operation with the US military, as opposed to UN agencies. The supposed reason was that they wanted a clear line between the “killers” and those that were “there to help”. Hey folks, get over it. Stereotyping the military in this way does no one any good. How many NGOs have facilities to desalinate ocean water and provide food as much as an aircraft carrier does? Yeah, thought so. America is using it’s vast resources to help and all you can do is this: They would actually COMPLAIN that the military was out doing things like rehabilitating wells and such, whining that these were things that should be left to the aid agencies. The irony of the fact that we were all sitting in a meeting, DISCUSSING it, while the US military had already been out DOING it, was completely lost on them. Sounds like it’s same-old, same-old. Nothing but tools, the lot of them. Yup, ya’ gotta’ get over it. stonescryout.org Soldiers told to stop handing out food • By Jim Michaels, USA TODAY PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Food handouts were shut off Tuesday to thousands of people at a tent city here when the main U.S. aid agency said the Army should not be distributing the packages. It was not known whether the action reflected a high-level policy decision at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) or confusion in a city where dozens of entities are involved in aid efforts. "We are not supposed to get rations unless approved by AID," Maj. Larry Jordan said. Jordan said that approval was revoked; water was not included in the USAID decision, so the troops continued to hand out bottles of water. The State Department and USAID did not respond to requests for comment. Jordan has been at the airport supervising distribution of individual food packages and bottled water since his arrival last week. Each package provides enough calories to sustain a person for a day. The food is flown by helicopter to points throughout the capital and distributed by paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division. At the tent city, set up at a golf course, more than 10,000 people displaced by the Haitian earthquake lay under makeshift tents. Each day, hundreds of people, many young children, line up for a meal. Tuesday morning, the helicopters came only with water. Soldiers carried boxes of water in the hot sun and supervised Haitian volunteers who handed the supplies out. usatoday.com I think the problem is that AID and the State Dept is filled with anti-military liberal BASTARDS!!!