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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
Location: The deep south...
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You guys are too easy to rile...  |
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Pyongshin Sangja
Joined: 20 Apr 2003
Location: I love baby!
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:45 am Post subject: |
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| Ahahahaha, you folded! |
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:13 am Post subject: |
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lol
Yeah... I guess I did.
You win! |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 5:39 am Post subject: |
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Has anyone bothered to read the article, past the headline?
I have, even though it is a non-story in itself.
If you had, you would find that alot of your overblown claims to smear and insult are false.
I would take it that the following by IGTG is what most Canadian posters on this thread feel-
IGTGuitar writes-
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| Canadian Search & Rescue Team all the way from Vancouver was able to get in there & get to work saving lives & providing some humanitarian relief while US bureaucrats, political bumblers, grandstanders & saboteurs were able to bungle & hijack the effort so badly |
From the article-
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| Boasso said U.S. authorities began dropping relief supplies to St. Bernard last Wednesday, the same day the Canadian resecue team arrived. |
From the article-
According to Louisiana State Senator Boasso,
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| They started rolling with us and got in boats to save people |
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| Boasso said residents of the outlying parishes had to mount their own rescue and relief efforts. |
As the article states, relief began at a ground-up level, as well as air drops being received. Though I don't dare defend federal US aid being giving in timely or adaquate fashion in the early days, it was being giving.
According to the article, the Canadian relief effort seems to be a joint effort with state emergency efforts. The only person interviewed in the article is a Louisiana State Senator, who was with aid workers. The Canadians are not even interviewed, which leads me to believe, as I said before, that the pull of the story is not the 'surprise' of Canada's help, but the long distance from which it came from.
I'm seeing over-blown claims by Canadian posters thousands of miles away from the focus of attention. Americans on this thread, and most others, once again are put on the defensive. Maybe I'm not as thick-skinned as others.
As I said before, a non-story, but catchy headline. |
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DRAMA OVERKILL
Joined: 12 Apr 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 6:47 am Post subject: |
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Canadians who feel the need to start a thread like this are pompous jerk-offs... Canada contributed to the relief effort - of course!!! But, we are not saviors... In turn, Americans need not be so damn defensive...
It's a shame for what has happened... Let's all show a little respect and class and end the bullshit bickering... |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 3:54 am Post subject: |
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| DRAMA OVERKILL wrote: |
Canadians who feel the need to start a thread like this are pompous jerk-offs... Canada contributed to the relief effort - of course!!! But, we are not saviors... In turn, Americans need not be so damn defensive...
It's a shame for what has happened... Let's all show a little respect and class and end the *beep* bickering... |
You seem to have missed it entirely. The reason i posted the story was to illustrate how inexcusable ( whether by accident or design ) the US govt's initial response to the disaster was, not how inherently wonderful Canadians are.
A Canadian Search & Rescue team coming ALL the way from Vancouver was first on the scene? Meanwhile US authorities spent 4-5 days playing their little Machiavellian political game. Over the course, hundreds of citizens needlessly died, many thousands more were left deeply traumatized.
The whole thing's just all too absurd  |
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HapKi
Joined: 10 Dec 2004
Location: TALL BUILDING-SEOUL
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:28 am Post subject: |
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| A Canadian Search & Rescue team coming ALL the way from Vancouver was first on the scene |
You are wrong. Read the article you posted. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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HapKi, I just re-read the first page and realized something.
I thought you were the one who had brought D-Day into this thread but I see now you were just responding to MMT.
I owe you an apology for jumping down your throat about that. Sorry. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:06 am Post subject: |
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Kudos to HapKi for being the one to finally drive a stake through this thread. (I thought I had been the one to do it.  )
The headline reads: Canadians Beat US Army To New Orleans Suburb
They only beat the US Army to the scene, no one else. Local rescue efforts were already in progress. Shame on you, IGTG! |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:12 am Post subject: |
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| And shame on Reuters and shame anyone who kept this thread going far longer than it should have and shame on those who dog-piled on one side or the other. In short- shame on us all, including you Leslie. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
| And shame on Reuters and shame anyone who kept this thread going far longer than it should have and shame on those who dog-piled on one side or the other. In short- shame on us all, including you Leslie. |
Hey, I was among the first to call BS on IGTG. If that bothers you then just say so. Don't hold anything back, now. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:40 am Post subject: |
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You are a true philanthropist.
Feel free to call igtg on his BS wherever you find it
and not just when it's another episode of the great Can-US pissing match. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| Bulsajo wrote: |
You are a true philanthropist.
Feel free to call igtg on his BS wherever you find it
and not just when it's another episode of the great Can-US pissing match. |
I have, do, and will continue to do so. Thank you very much.
IGTG's schtick is mostly anti-US. So the Canadia-US pissing match arena is where you'll be finding most of Leslie's IGTG bashing. Deal with it. |
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Bulsajo
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:05 am Post subject: |
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| Fair enough, I'll take you at your word and wish you good hunting. |
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