Haiti

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Registered: 01-15-2010
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: 12-16-2009
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 5:56pm

~everyone knows that Obama has already spent WAY more time on the golf course in his one year in office than Bush has in his 8 years~

I'm confused as to why you'd make another erroneous claim and this time attempt to back it up with a link that disproves your own claim.

It won't work. Just like with clearly erroneous claims about posts on the board, we do read the links offered as well.

Kate

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Registered: 03-30-2007
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 5:57pm
Just sitting here, looking at coverage on the news of the devastation. How on Earth will they ever be able to recover? How can they rebuild? Where will they dispose of all those crumbled buildings? I just can't wrap my brain around this. I realize that Engineers will come in and help. But I wonder if every one left will have a place to live. So sad....just so sad.
iVillage Member
Registered: 12-16-2009
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 5:58pm

It boggles my mind as well. :(

Kate

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Registered: 03-30-2007
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 6:06pm

The poor children. I understand that Haiti already has a lot of orphan's, now it will be so much worse.

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Registered: 09-02-2009
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 7:01pm
She does realize that Haiti is an independent country and not one of our United States doesn't she? Obama, Bush, and Clinton all have a limited role in a rescue mission that takes place in another country, even one with a largely absentee government.
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Registered: 11-17-2009
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 9:36pm

I will bet that most that can will come to the U.S. We will take them in. We will probably pay to rebuild the country too. The corruption is rampant in that country to begin with. It was in very bad shape BEFORE the earth quake.

It would be interesting to see a dollar amount of exactly how much EACH country contributes to this disaster. I can take a wild guess who #1 will be.

For all the bashing other countries do to America....it is always America who gives the most aid. It is always America who comes to the rescue. Wouldn't it be nice to be recognized for that once in a while? It's funny, other countries never tell us to "butt out" and "mind our own business" when a disaster happens....then they all cry for our help.

And we are always there to give it.

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-17-2009
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 9:46pm

((Why am I not surprised that your link doesn't support your statement...)

Oh sorry, I thought you realized that Bush stopped playing golf in 2003. Sorry for the confusion...so you see...my link does support my statement.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0508/Bush_has_given_up_golf_for_troops.html

"Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights. "

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-17-2009
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 9:52pm

((I'm confused as to why you'd make another erroneous claim and this time attempt to back it up with a link that disproves your own claim.
It won't work. Just like with clearly erroneous claims about posts on the board, we do read the links offered as well.))

Again, sorry for the confusion. I assumed people might have remembered that Bush actually gave up playing golf while in office in 2003. You can google it if you like.

So you see....my link really wasn't erroneous. I just assumed everyone remembered that little factoid. My bad.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 10:44pm

I don't believe the people of Haiti are the ones who have snubbed our help before, it was their government. The refugees from countries that have committed genocide and mass death among their people are the ones we need to help. If we don't get the recognition "we think we deserve" maybe it is because what we are doing isn't something we need praise for, it is something we should do because we can and it "is the right thing to do."

1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version)

1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1corinthians%2013&version=NIV

 
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-17-2009
In reply to: arseola
Mon, 01-18-2010 - 10:54pm

Wow...all I am saying is that it would be nice once in a while for America to get some praise...because other countries sure are quick to dish out the criticism of United States often enough.

No need to quote scripture here....lol.

For the record....I believe (as most Americans do) that helping IS something we should do. And might I point out that we gladly do it too.

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