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To: LindyBill who wrote (344666)	1/21/2010 12:41:17 PM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793896

Soldiers told to stop handing out food ????!!!! Amazing that AID would tell soldiers NOT to hand out food to quake victims. I think the problem is that AID and the State Dept is filled with anti-military liberal BASTARDS! • 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 Jordan said that approval was revoked; water was not included in the USAID decision, so the troops continued to hand out bottles of water.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