Chavez says U.S. occupying Haiti in name of aid
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Anna GOk. Then none taken.But I know there's a big diff between the two.
While you do, many do not - Haiti has been an economic and Democratic basket case since it achieved Independence -Massive corruption, gangs - blood fueds - It will take years to rebuild - combine that with the ecological disaster and the world has its work cut out for it.
Ok. Then none taken.
Don't forget that pact with the devil... ;-)
On the news coverage I've been watching, I've noticed a hell of a lot of able bodied men wandering around doing nothing. Why can't these people help out? Do they expect foreigners to do everything for them? They certainly don't seem grateful when they complain that help is too slow in coming, and looting and rioting. It almost makes me wish I didn't make my donation to them.
Didn't we see the same things in New Orleans? China? ...anywhere there is a disaster and hungry and desperate people? What about the Hatians who helped out those BC school kids? News cameras always seem to focus on the stories of violence. There are good and bad everywhere.
Sun, Jan 17 2010
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation.
"I read that 3,000 soldiers are arriving, Marines armed as if they were going to war.
There is not a shortage of guns there, my God. Doctors, medicine, fuel, field hospitals, that's what the United States should send," Chavez said on his weekly television show.
"They are occupying Haiti undercover."
"On top of that, you don't see them in the streets. Are they picking up bodies? ... Are they looking for the injured? You don't see them. I haven't seen them. Where are they?"
Chavez promised to send as much gasoline as Haiti needs for electricity generation and transport.
A perennial foe of U.S. "imperialism," Chavez said he did not wish to diminish the humanitarian effort made by the United States and was only questioning the need for so many troops.
The United States is sending more than 5,000 Marines and soldiers to Haiti, and a hospital ship is due to arrive later this week.
The country's president said U.S. troops would help keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets.
Venezuela has sent several planes to Haiti with doctors, aid and some soldiers. A Russia-Venezuela mission was set to leave Venezuela on Monday carrying aid on Russian planes.
Chavez said Venezuela's planes were the first to land in Haiti after Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude earthquake, which wrecked the capital Port-Au-Prince and killed as many as 200,000 people.
Can you think of a better reason to be armed like soldiers ... er, Marines? Do you think the Van Doos will be carrying floral bouquets?
I wonder how much bitching and whining there would be if the US just took a "screw you" attitude?
Okay, instead of soldiers, let's send in 5,000 socialist poly sci majors. They can then walk around, look at the devastation, and do **** all.
Personally, I think you're better off to send in people who are disciplined, organized, trained, and able to do the hard work of looking through rubble and recovering bodies.
But maybe that's not what anyone wants.
Personally, I think you're better off to send in people who are disciplined, organized, trained, and able to do the hard work of looking through rubble and recovering bodies.
But maybe that's not what anyone wants.
Everyone knows the US had a floating hospital there long before any troops.
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I think that it's essentially the same as shell shock - people are completely gobsmacked, and don't know what to do. The mind is overloaded, and won't function normally.
What they need is to have someone give them something to do, give them a specific task, and that will help them recover and help them deal with it.
Your attitude smacks of a lack of understanding of humanity, but it's not surprising.
