Cyclone death toll jumps to 100,000

[lilacs_]

johanson wrote:

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You morons have tried turning a discussion about the death of up to 60,000 people (current estimates) into a political hit on President Bush. Is your hatred for the President so all consuming that everything must be an attack on the President? Are you really so shallow?

Still, nothing is going to save bush from where he's going. Sorry.. finis..

[lilacs_]

A GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

A Soldier’s View of the Iraq War March 5, 2004

I am a cavalry scout in the United States Army. I am stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas. We returned home Tuesday and I would like to comment on this war from a specialized soldier’s eyes. I honestly think the president lied to all of us. After seeing first hand what was in most parts of Iraq, my whole company could not fathom a threat of any means. I love America, and will defend her when called upon, but in this case there was not a real threat. By the way, the THANKSGIVING PHOTO-OP at the airport was only open to pro-Bush soldiers. We were screened unknowingly about four days before he showed up in secret. We didn’t know he was coming, but looking back, all the questions we were asked were designed to weed out the antiwar soldiers..

Happy Mother’s Day???

[Ignignokt]

johanson wrote:

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You morons have tried turning a discussion about the death of up to 60,000 people (current estimates) into a political hit on President Bush. Is your hatred for the President so all consuming that everything must be an attack on the President? Are you really so shallow?

As is typical , the posts invariably turn to race or politics .

[POPULATION CONTROL]

Oh, why not make it a Million Killed. Sounds better to me and would sell more papers.

[POPULATION CONTROL]

Has everyone forgot about Darfur? Or are they just not killing each other fast enough? We say the numbers could be many more for our taste.

[tweetybird_]

POPULATION CONTROL wrote:

Has everyone forgot about Darfur? Or are they just not killing each other fast enough? We say the numbers could be many more for our taste.

No one can do anything about Dafur.... except try to get as many people out of there as possible. And that's not working very well either.

[Phony commies]

Generals must Die wrote:

Begging the Generals to allow the aid to go in has not helped.
Bloated corpses are clogging the rivers as you read this. Disease is becoming rampant.
A few smart bombs need to be delivered to the Generals.
Then we can ask the Colonels for permission to deliver aid.

The US has sanctions on Burma due to the very brave punks of the NLD. Maybe your one of them
who left Burma to live a better life in the west and call for sanctions so those back home have
a tougher life. Suu Kyi is no leader she does not care how many of her people die as long as she is a martyr, so which is worse> The generals?
or Suu Kyi in a nice houe arrest on a lake
in a mansion? The world only sees what they see
and hears what the press pumps. Suu Kyi has not said a word about the cyclone any reason?

When the Burmese come to the west they rant a rave
about the generals. If you want to change Burma
go home and play George Washington, at least the
Western people have the fortitude to throw off anarchy. What aboutthose great Eastern countries?
Was it always revisionist history?

China owns Burma lock stock and barrel now
along with India

[ZENmud]

thanks, but... how could I?

was born on Lake Minnetonka, outside Minneapolis, raised in NJ, near the Great Swamp National (something... heh heh), and lived 23yrs in CO., more than half that time in Vail...(and am a citizen of US of A)...

I try not to view ANYONE through homogenizing lenses...
:-)

(But when I meet 'shockable' people, I LOVE telling them I 'dated bin Laden's secretary'... cuz the stepdaughter of my neighbor was a half-time sec'y to one of the 'OTHER BROTHERS' who has a business in CH: most REPS go ballistic... heh heh)

zenTHANKS

Ignignokt wrote:

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Zen , I enjoy your posts , but I seriously hope you do not view all Americans with the same view.

[The truth be told]

Calm down the aid is going in
The enemy opened the door to the country
with supplies, flew out of the Thai air force base of Utapao for Yangon. Two more air shipments are scheduled to land Tuesday.
Myanmar's junta said Sunday the official death toll from the May 3 Cyclone Nargis has jumped to nearly 29,000 with more than 33,000 missing.
But Richard Horsey, a spokesman for U.N. humanitarian operations, said a toll of 100,000 dead or missing was possible based on "reports that we are receiving from our teams in the field from the authorities there."
Though the green light for the U.S. airlift was a positive sign, Horsey said the junta continued to frustrate international efforts to deliver aid. He said clean drinking water, shelter, medical supplies and food are still desperately needed by hundreds of thousands of people in order to prevent widespread starvation and disease.
"It's still a very serious situation. There are up to 2 million people in urgent need of assistance. Assistance is getting through" but not fast enough, he told The Associated Press in Bangkok, Thailand.
He said authorities must allow not only goods to come in urgently but also expedite visas for foreign experts and allowing equipment into the country.
"The authorities of the country need to open up to an international relief effort. There aren't enough boats, trucks, helicopters in the country to run the relief effort of the scale we need," he said. "It's urgent that the authorities do open themselves up."
In the hardest hit Irrawaddy delta, people were surviving in miserable conditions — hundreds crowded into monasteries, where they slept on the floor. Others camped outside, drinking water contaminated by human feces, dead bodies and animal carcasses.
Heavy rains were forecast this week, which would further hinder aid delivery.
"So far we have enough water by collecting rain. But we do not have food anymore," said U Patanyale, the abbot of a monastery in Pyapon town in the delta.
Horsey said the U.N. is getting "a lot of reports" of widespread diarrhea outbreaks in the delta, but not of an epidemic scale. Malaria and dengue could also become a problem.
"But basic shelter, clean water and emergency food will be the thing that if we can get it out fast enough will prevent hopefully these major problems," he said.
The junta has been sharply criticized for its handling of the disaster, from failing to provide adequate warnings about the pending storm to responding slowly to offers of help.
Though international assistance has started trickling in, the few foreign relief workers who have been allowed entry have been restricted to Yangon. Only a handful have succeeded in getting past checkpoints into the worst-affected areas.
The government is also insisting on handling the aid distribution through its feared military, which has ruled this isolated country since 1962.
"The government is very controlling," said U Patanyale. "Those who want to give directly to the victims get into trouble. They have to give to the government or do it secretly. They follow international aid trucks everywhere. They don't want others to take credit."
The Myanmar junta's restrictions on foreign help stems from its strained relations with the international community, especially the West, which has regularly criticized its refusal to allow democracy.
The acceptance of the U.S. relief flight Monday could be "beginning of a long line of assistance from the United States," White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe told reporters in Crawford, Texas over the weekend. "They're going to need our help for a long time."
The plane is carrying 28,000 pounds of supplies, including mosquito nets, blankets and water in an operation dubbed "Joint Task Force Carrying Response."
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[The truth be told]

There is no news that the Chinese and the Pakistani;s have sent the aid in the past few days
why is this?

[Ignignokt]

ZENmud wrote:

thanks, but... how could I?
was born on Lake Minnetonka, outside Minneapolis, raised in NJ, near the Great Swamp National (something... heh heh), and lived 23yrs in CO., more than half that time in Vail...(and am a citizen of US of A)...
I try not to view ANYONE through homogenizing lenses...
:-)
(But when I meet 'shockable' people, I LOVE telling them I 'dated bin Laden's secretary'... cuz the stepdaughter of my neighbor was a half-time sec'y to one of the 'OTHER BROTHERS' who has a business in CH: most REPS go ballistic... heh heh)
zenTHANKS
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Shockable humans are not in short supply . I see it daily. Peace.

[ZENmud]

stay on high ground...:-)

That's my motto...

(Now let's sit back and see who flames on that sentence I buried in there... heh heh)

(Working in Switz, watching EuroSport, following the Giro d'Italia... doesn't get better than that...)

ZENhere

[Ed Teach]

lilacs_ wrote:

Well, the universe is never ending and politicians as well as bush don't even amount to a speck of dust, not even that when you think about it..bye..

You wouldn't happen to share those drugs would you?

[Ed Teach]

The truth be told wrote:

There is no news that the Chinese and the Pakistani;s have sent the aid in the past few days
why is this?

You know, I haven't seen any billions from the saudis going in either.

[lilacs_]

Ed Teach wrote:

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You wouldn't happen to share those drugs would you?

Drugs? I'm merely stating that this universe is never ending and that people like bush don't even amount to speak of dust, not even that when you think about it. That the sun will continue to rise and set as the world continues its journey around the sun long after bush is dead (buried or cremated) and forgotten. Sorry.

[fed up with the mess]

GOD is trying to get the attention for the immoral continent of Asia. Tsunami, cyclone, earthquake...what next?? Some more is coming...watch.

[fed up with the mess]

Vincent wrote:

God help these people? If there was a God, he started it.

Help them?? He is trying to get their attention??? Wake up continent of ASIA!!!!

[lilacs_]

Well, maybe a huge meteor will fall from the heavens and destroy us all. I guess that would also mean the end of bush and his war in Iraq...

[fed up with the mess]

lilacs_ wrote:

Well, maybe a huge meteor will fall from the heavens and destroy us all. I guess that would also mean the end of bush and his war in Iraq...

Yep!!!

[Ignignokt]

lilacs_ wrote:

Well, maybe a huge meteor will fall from the heavens and destroy us all. I guess that would also mean the end of bush and his war in Iraq...

It seems as humans are doing a good job of it without mother nature.