They don't want our help? Help them anyway! We can spend billions Iraq..where's the compssion

Iwasthere

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Fri May-09-08 02:14 PM
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They don't want our help? Help them anyway! We can spend billions Iraq..where's the compssion

Edited on Fri May-09-08 02:28 PM by Patmccccc

... and Iraqis don't even want us there but we can't help these poor people. JESUS!!! The people in Myanmar desperately need help. How hard would it be to drop supplies all along that devastated area (wrapped carefully of course and with instructions for distributions). of course there would be some hoarding and loss but much would reach them and save a lot of lives imo. JUST HELP THEM ANYWAY! What's their military going to do?

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Lex1775

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Fri May-09-08 02:17 PM
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1. The U.N tried yesteday.

They flew in two transports full of food (enough to feed 90,000 people according to the news report) and the Myanmar government/military wouldn't let it leave the airport.

We currently have four naval ships of the Myanmar coast and the Defense Department is talking about doing low level helicopter and C-130 air drops.

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Iwasthere

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Fri May-09-08 02:23 PM
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3. Talk is cheap! Just do it!

SHIT! I'll go. Put on a flake jacket on me, AND some military protection on the tarmac, I'll help unload the FUCKING PLANE, then help get it to the stricken areas!! CHRIST!!!

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Lex1775

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Fri May-09-08 02:29 PM
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5. I admire your desire to help...

But it isn't that easy. Trust me. I've been the guy wearing the flak jacket trying to get aid to people like that. If their government doesn't want the help there isn't much the world community can do about it short of invading. You'd never get the UN to approve that.

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Brigid

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Fri May-09-08 02:37 PM
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8. And I just heard on CNN . . .

that they're going to try again tomorrow. What is wrong with the paranoid cabal who runs that country anyway? Must be their very own version of the Bush regime.

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atreides1

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Fri May-09-08 02:21 PM
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2. Very Admirable

But without permission from the Myanmar government, under the established policies of our current administration those aircraft would be subject to being shot down.

And logistically the air drops would have to take place in areas where the people could get to the supplies, which are probably already under government control, so those who need theese supplies the most still won't get them.

I want those people to get all of the help that they will need to survive this disaster, but short of going to war with Myanmar and actually invading, the world is forced to play the game by the rules set up by that government.

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Iwasthere

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Fri May-09-08 02:26 PM
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4. Screw the policies!

This is a reason for military intervention at least a thousand times greater than the reason we went into Iraq.

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BeFree

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Fri May-09-08 02:30 PM
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6. Exactly

If we can invade and destroy a country to further democracy, we can sure as heck invade a destroyed country to further democracy.

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Iwasthere

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Fri May-09-08 02:33 PM
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7. well said

But nobody else is getting it. And hardly anyone is reading this in here. Where's the comapssion?

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BeFree

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Fri May-09-08 02:37 PM
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9. Thanks

What the hell is wrong with us? We have the mightiest military in the world and we're afraid of that country's piss-ant forces? Go in and help the people. Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead. Time's a'waisting!

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uppityperson

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Fri May-09-08 02:41 PM
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10. That made me laugh, in a very ironic way.

Edited on Fri May-09-08 02:42 PM by uppityperson

Perhaps you should put the sarcasm icon in though, for those who take you seriously.
Edited to add, though you may mean that seriously. The UN is working with them and no, invading is the reason the USA isn't being allowed to enter Burma.

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Disturbed

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Fri May-09-08 03:11 PM
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11. Busholini refused aid from other countries after Katrina.

What if some of those countries flew in aid anyway?

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