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To: i-node who wrote (545564)	1/22/2010 11:15:50 AM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575420

There is no excuse for not having made massive airdrops of food, water, and medicine one day afterward. Violent gangs had already raided the Red Cross repositioned relief supplies. They would have taken control of the airdropped supplies and those in need would not have received them. No death would have ben prevented and possibly more would have resulted. What does it take to put 1,000 or 10,000 pallets of water and MREs on the ground? Existence of the supplies and a delivery mechanism. We didn't have the mechanism. Think back to Khe Sanh, it took well choreographed manpower to take possession of the airlifted supplies. Coordinated manpower and infrastructure did not exist in Haiti. Last Sunday, the federal government bragged about having dropped 70,000 bottles of water into the area. YOU THINK THAT IS AN ADEQUATE RESPONSE NEARLY A WEEK AFTER THE QUAKE? 10 PALLETS OF WATER? If Obama didn't hate the idea of capitalism he would have used the same mechanism President Bush's government did after Katrina. They bought the supplies from Walmart. That let the world's greatest supply chain management system serve as a backbone that government didn't have to invent or build.