Haiti

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Fri, 01-15-2010 - 4:56am
Regarding the disaster in Haiti-- why isn't emergency food, water and basic medical being parachuted in to the people  until it can be more properly distributed? --- This has been done in other countries and the air craft need not even land.

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Registered: 10-28-2009
In reply to: arseola
Sat, 01-16-2010 - 2:26pm
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Edited 1/16/2010 5:51 pm ET by shannon.fannon
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Registered: 11-22-2009
In reply to: arseola
Sat, 01-16-2010 - 9:29pm

I am Haitian and am so focused on praying and hoping that more people will be rescued, that I don't have time to analyze what's going on...sometimes.


It' true, water needs to be distrubuted to the people.


I see the faces of children with bandages covering one eye and the other eye looks out, terrified. I see the bodies lined up and covered with sheets and pieces of cardboard that some kind person draped over them. I see Haitians, Americans and people from all over the world digging people out of rubble.


I know this is not the smoothest rescue operation, but I think that the news is trying to convey how large the area is that is effected, but it can't. We are in our livingrooms trying to grasp what we see, but the area is HUGE.


I know it's not the smoothes rescue operation, but I am sooooo grateful for whatever help Haiti is getting right now. There needs to be more help.


I watch CNN and poor Sunjay Gupta was left alone on Friday night with patients. Belgian doctors and nurses were "told to leave due to a possible security issue." They said it was the UN, but it came out that a regular guy made that decision. Besides, the UN has guys/gals with rifles. So what was that about?


Sunjay Gupta was left alone with so many people needing medical attention. INCLUDING people that recently had legs amputated and were in critical condition.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: arseola
Sat, 01-16-2010 - 9:38pm
Well, now I have heard everything! Didn't you consider at all the times Clinton and the elder Bush have been together to garner aid for other worthwhile causes? Did you consider that maybe the elder Bush is not physically able to do it again, and Obama chose the younger Bush to take his father's place along side Clinton? No, you just were waiting for another chance to bash Obama!
 
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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: arseola
Sat, 01-16-2010 - 9:44pm
I just read about helicopters dropping boxes of supplies, and that instead of using parachutes, they just dropped them from close to the ground, but they were endangering the people waiting for the supplies down below. I imagine setting down a helicopter would injure the many below as they would rush for the supplies. There should be a safe place to land and distribute the supplies.
 
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Registered: 04-11-2009
In reply to: arseola
Sat, 01-16-2010 - 10:08pm
I sure hope that they get water purifier tablets (better yet, clean safe water) and food soon. I nearly cried when I learned that the 11 year old girl who we watched extricated yesterday died of her injuries BECAUSE there was no medical care available.

 

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Registered: 11-17-2009
In reply to: arseola
Sun, 01-17-2010 - 8:45am

((Obama chose the younger Bush to take his father's place along side Clinton? No, you just were waiting for another chance to bash Obama!))

I think you have it wrong. It was OBAMA that bashed Bush for his handling of Katrina. It was not stop bashing. Just google it if you can't remember that far back. Now...all of a sudden Bush is good enough to help with Haiti?

It seems to me that Obama has clue how to handle this....or wants to find one more thing to blame Bush for if it goes poorly.

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Registered: 12-16-2009
In reply to: arseola
Sun, 01-17-2010 - 4:58pm

Well, first, Bush won't be handling Haiti.

Second, Bush won't be solely in charge of overseeing the relief fund.

Third, surely Bush learned quite a bit through his experiences re: Katrina.

So your argument really is moot.

Kate

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: arseola
Sun, 01-17-2010 - 10:39pm

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You're so determined to bash Obama you misinterpret posts. Sorry if my post confused you, but I don't think that's hard to do. You just have so much pent up hate for any Democrat that you'll look for bad where none was intended.

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Registered: 10-28-2009
In reply to: arseola
Sun, 01-17-2010 - 10:45pm
That's par for the course.
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Registered: 11-13-2009
In reply to: arseola
Sun, 01-17-2010 - 11:35pm

This just broke my heart.... my God, I was barely able to read through it...


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/cb_haiti_


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Elderly and abandoned, 84 Haitians await death

 

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