Re: Relief Effort?


"tiny dancer" <tinydancer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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| If the news people can continually get into and out of these places,
talking
| to people, listening to stories, why the *** can't HELP get in there?
Why
| can't the National Guard in trucks get in with truck loads of clean
water
| and those meals ready to eat? I'm listening to a doctor on TV,
pleading for
| help for over 1200 people in his hospital, without water, without
food,
| without power to run the respirators, etc. I heard a nurse from
another
| hospital on the phone last night, pleading for help. She said the
staff was
| starting to become ill from dehydration right along with the patients.
This
| is just asinine. These people are not thousands of miles away. Are
we left
| so short staffed by the war in Iraq that we don't have enough National
Guard
| people to help. After Hurricane Andrew the Guard was in there setting
up
| tent cities in the most devastated areas. I realize that New Orleans
is
| under water, but there are dry places on the outskirts, the areas
outside of
| the city. Yet I don't see any 'tent cities' springing up, or even in
the
| process of being erected. WTF is going on down there? I just heard
bush
| say 'the problem is we don't have communication in the area.' We are
| hearing hourly from people 'in the area' about what their needs are,
where
| they are located, and still nothing appears to be coordinating, coming
| together, to help them.
|
|
| td
|


This is a terrible mess. I did hear that they had called up 1000 NG
troops to head over there to help. It does seem like they could airlift
water to them at the very least.

Betsy|


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