View Full Version : Where is the international aid?
TJAndDani
09-03-2005, 04:17 PM
^ Or maybe its the fact that you focused on the most negative thing you could and ran with it. And now that I have stated that I have been to Thailand the only other option to attack is my humanity.
The real question is, why bother cluttering a thread that is supposed to be about international aid with your own morals and views? Do you honestly think you can change my opinion on a message board?
velvet
09-03-2005, 07:00 PM
^
The real question is, why bother cluttering a thread that is supposed to be about international aid with your own morals and views? Do you honestly think you can change my opinion on a message board?
thats funny, i thought thats what you just did.
VenusGoddess
09-04-2005, 06:17 AM
^ I dont think you understand the amount of damage done. The only thing that compares is an earthquake in 1906. This isnt a matter of a flood, its a matter of thousands already killed and thousands more suffering due to lack of transportation of required supplies.
There are rapes and murders going on at the so called "safe havens". We have reporters breaking down and crying on the air live. The aid is not important, the offer for aid is what is. Personally I think it will be remembered who the first ones to throw in support were. Sadly it was 3rd world countries who were offering first.
The amount of money flooded into thailand will probably give those people a better standard of living than they ever had. They have too much stuff to worry about than a bunch of disease ridden prostitutes and people who pimp out children for money being sucked out into the ocean.
Money is not what is needed. Man power is what is needed more than anything.
^ Or maybe its the fact that you focused on the most negative thing you could and ran with it. And now that I have stated that I have been to Thailand the only other option to attack is my humanity.
The real question is, why bother cluttering a thread that is supposed to be about international aid with your own morals and views? Do you honestly think you can change my opinion on a message board?
Goodness what was I thinking? Yes, everything you have stated about Thailand has been a glowing review. ::)
No where did you state that you've been to Thailand. The link to "Cobra Gold" doesn't prove that you were in Thailand. If you were, it doesn't matter. Your statement was still ignorant.
I wasn't trying to change your opinion. I was merely pointing out how ignorant and shallow you sound.
threlayer
09-04-2005, 08:54 AM
Several countries are reported to offer aid IMMEDIATELY after the levees broke, but Bush reportedly said, we will take care of our own; thanks, but no thanks. This was on the TV news several times.
Bob_Loblaw
09-04-2005, 09:02 AM
I'm not a big supporter of Bush but how's this for an ignorant statement?
http://www.moronland.com/media.php?name=Kanye%20West%20-%20Bush%20Attacking&type=2
SW Siren
09-04-2005, 11:43 AM
Several countries are reported to offer aid IMMEDIATELY after the levees broke, but Bush reportedly said, we will take care of our own; thanks, but no thanks. This was on the TV news several times.
grrr !
Bush is such an idiot ! As in debt as he has put this country and then to turn down offers of aid :O
like I said before either in this thread or one of the similar ones , I think he enjoys watching people suffer.
I think he is a monster, the devil incarnate !
threlayer
09-04-2005, 01:06 PM
I think he is a monster, the devil incarnate !
But he is SO religious. How can that be?
Maybe it's that Texas bravado. Oh wait! He also didn't want to wait for assistance with Iraq.
Or maybe he is an idiot.
GnBeret
09-04-2005, 06:23 PM
Wow! Don't know about ya'll, but I'm seriously impressed - especially with the countries in the Mid-East, of all places!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050905/ap_on_re_mi_ea/katrina_world_3
SW Siren
09-05-2005, 02:23 PM
^ yup, it is wonderful to see so many places around the world that are considered an enemy of the US offering aid
Has Bush agreed to accept any of it yet ( from anyone ?) or is he still pulling the we don't want your help thing ?
James Croft
09-06-2005, 02:07 PM
The Vancouver Urban Search & Rescue group just got back to Vancouver from Louisiana.
Here's our local news about that...
Weary SAR team arrives back home
Canadian Press & Global BC
September 6, 2005
http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/media.canada.com/695b99cf-3b6f-40e5-ad55-02d1951c5d2e/sept6_sar.jpgVancouver-based Urban Search and Rescue Team arrives at Vancouver airport Tuesday morning. (Global BC). http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.canada.com/images/s.gifADVERTISEMENT http://a123.g.akamai.net/f/123/12465/1d/www.canada.com/images/s.gif RICHMOND, B.C. (CP) - The Vancouver-based Urban Search and Rescue Team is home after completing its work in a flooded community near New Orleans.
The exhausted 46-member crew, which had gone 30 hours without sleep, met briefly with the media at Vancouver International Airport before getting on a bus and heading home for some well-deserved rest.
Team leader Brian Inglis says the group has waited several years for an opportunity to show its skills.
Another team leader, Tim Armstrong, says initially there was concern for their safety because of escalating violence in St. Bernard Parish.
Armstrong says the crew worked four 18-hour days and rescued 119 people in total.
He says the mayor of the flooded town hugged him and told him the Canadian rescuers were their first sign of relief.
© The Canadian Press & Global BC 2005
Typical Canadian style - go in do your job and then leave. The giant US news media didn't even know about this project and made no mention of it at all!