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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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 Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 7:11 pm Post subject: U.S. didn�t accept most foreign Katrina aid |
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The Bush Crime Family screws the pooch again. But I guess all those poor black people don't need aid, they didn't vote for the Commander-in-Chimp.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18341744/
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As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.
Titled "Echo-Chamber Message" -- a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again -- the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: Assure the scores of countries that had pledged or donated aid at the height of the disaster that their largesse had provided Americans "practical help and moral support" and "highlight the concrete benefits hurricane victims are receiving."
Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies' offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina's victims. |
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Milwaukiedave
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Location: Goseong
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| It's ok, we all know the Republican's platform has been screw the poor, they are expendable. So much for compassionate conservatism. |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:57 am Post subject: Re: U.S. didn�t accept most foreign Katrina aid |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
The Bush Crime Family screws the pooch again. But I guess all those poor black people don't need aid, they didn't vote for the Commander-in-Chimp.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18341744/
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As the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina were receding, presidential confidante Karen Hughes sent a cable from her State Department office to U.S. ambassadors worldwide.
Titled "Echo-Chamber Message" -- a public relations term for talking points designed to be repeated again and again -- the Sept. 7, 2005, directive was unmistakable: Assure the scores of countries that had pledged or donated aid at the height of the disaster that their largesse had provided Americans "practical help and moral support" and "highlight the concrete benefits hurricane victims are receiving."
Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies' offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina's victims. |
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It is one thing for the U.S. Government to spend on the people, when it happens, but I don't think they wanted to have the United States being seen to need donations. I am not really sure what the logic would be for not taking help from Sweden or whatever country was offering the help in question. I have no reason to doubt MSNBC. You should also consider the government was extremely disorganized, so they didn't know what to do or what they were doing. So it wasn't simply a question of not wanting to help the poor which is not clear but rather major incompetence which was clear. |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: Re: U.S. didn�t accept most foreign Katrina aid |
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| Octavius Hite wrote: |
The Bush Crime Family screws the pooch again.
But I guess all those poor black people don't need aid, they didn't vote for the Commander-in-Chimp. |
With old man Bush #41 & Klinton put out there as front men, looting, pillaging & theft was a no-brainer from the get go ... duh ...
Their hearts are hard  |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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Oh, I agree that a lot of this is just incompetence (I love how that is now the proof that the Bush Administration is not evil  ) but I mean jesus it just gets worse and worse with these people and so I wonder how any on this board are able to defend these people anymore. I mean loyalty is one thing but c'mon people this is just crazy. |
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Octavius Hite
Joined: 28 Jan 2004
Location: Househunting, looking for a new bunker from which to convert the world to homosexuality.
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 4:24 am Post subject: |
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| Oh, I agree that a lot of this is just incompetence (I love how that is now the proof that the Bush Administration is not evil ) but I mean jesus it just gets worse and worse with these people and so I wonder how any on this board are able to defend these people anymore. I mean loyalty is one thing but c'mon people this is just crazy. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 5:15 am Post subject: Re: U.S. didn�t accept most foreign Katrina aid |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| but I don't think they wanted to have the United States being seen to need donations. I am not really sure what the logic would be for not taking help from Sweden or whatever country was offering the help in question. |
I remember back during the '80s, Germans were collecting money and food to help America's homeless and hungry. News reached the Germans that America had a homeless problem and people were too poor to afford food. They couldn't believe it. They remembered a time when Americans bent over backwards to feed them after the war and during the Berlin airlift.
I can't see it being a pride thing. America is the first to offer aid in times of natural disaster, even to its enemies like Iran. Anyone should be able to frame it as "a bit of payback". |
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