Where is the aid?

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
President Obama where is the aid to Haiti? Is this going to be your Katrina?

It is there and more n more is coming,Why do you remain so ignorant and uninformed yet comment anyway?

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It is there and more n more is coming,

Have you been there? Explain to me what "is there".

President Clinton, a designated spokesman, asked that aid be sent only when and in the form requested. I am sure we are complying with those who are in the know's requests. $100M is a lot of money! Fabricated complaint!

I'm talking about water and antibiotics, and equipment to bury the dead. Tens of thousands of people are going to die in the next few hours.

But in Port-au-Prince, there were few apparent signs so far of an organized plan to bring food and water to the 3 million or so Haitians that the International Red Cross estimates need emergency assistance.

"There is no government aid out here bringing anything to the people," said NPR's Carrie Kahn, reporting from Port-au-Prince. "They've been three days now without food and water."

Kahn said survivors were wandering the streets in desperate search of water, food and medical care. "You go into every building, you go down every corner, and there are people wailing, crying, bandaged up, and there are no doctors to help them," she said.

http://www.npr.org/templates/s...Id=122558589&ps=cprs

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Fabricated complaint!

Correct

The roads are torn up making it virtually impossible to transport any thing by land. A person can look at the pictures on TV and see that. Rationale is that much food, water, and many medical supplies were lost in the aftermath of Tsumani because of many logistical factors of which we may not be aware. From my TV observation, they are landing the planes as fast as they can. BTW, I am following ALL major news channels! Again, priorities have been set by those who are there! Fabricated complaint!

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
But in Port-au-Prince, there were few apparent signs so far of an organized plan to bring food and water to the 3 million or so Haitians that the International Red Cross estimates need emergency assistance.

"There is no government aid out here bringing anything to the people," said NPR's Carrie Kahn, reporting from Port-au-Prince. "They've been three days now without food and water."

Kahn said survivors were wandering the streets in desperate search of water, food and medical care. "You go into every building, you go down every corner, and there are people wailing, crying, bandaged up, and there are no doctors to help them," she said.

http://www.npr.org/templates/s...Id=122558589&ps=cprs

Your original post castigated Obama. I do not think he has the authority to order doctors(maybe yours) to go to Haiti. Lack of doctors was mentioned in a later post. He cannot be blamed for a lack of medical personnel. I am not defending Obama. I am talking about constitutional authority which I am more worried about than Obama! Read what you post!

Tell the Haitians it's fabricated. The post I linked says they have been 3 days without food or water. Haiti is 700 miles from here by unobstructed water.

You watch some of that video and tell me we are doing everything we can. We aren't,

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Your original post castigated Obama. I do not think he has the authority to order doctors(maybe yours) to go to Haiti. Lack of doctors was mentioned in a later post. He cannot be blamed for a lack of medical personnel. I am not defending Obama. I am talking about constitutional authority which I am more worried about than Obama! Read what you post!

Of course he can order doctors to go. In fact he can order hospitals to go. Our armed forces are self contained.

We have hospital ships. Floating hospitals. One will leave in a couple of days.

USS Carl Vinson, is heading from Norfolk, Va., to the area and should arrive Thursday afternoon after a stop off Naval Station Mayport in Florida to pick up helicopters, crews and supplies.

The USS Bataan, carrying Marines from the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, USS Fort McHenry and USS Carter Hall were ordered to get under way as soon as possible, and more vessels were ordered to stand ready to assist.

The USS Higgins from Naval Station San Diego was scheduled to arrive off the coast of Haiti on Thursday to provide logistical services for Coast Guard helicopters.

Obama is handling this well and McCain would have been great too there is no time for partisan bs during this tragedy

Stocking supplies does take time. My husband moaned in pain at HK for three hours while they found the pain medication. I am not criticizing HK- just pointing out that all the things needed are not regularly stocked. I am proud of America, its president, and all others doing what they know how to do! Transport to the hospital ships will be another logistical problem. Helicopters can only carry so many at a time. Fabricated complaint!

Again I'm talking about basic water. How many days is acceptable?

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
Again I'm talking about basic water. How many days is acceptable?

You can't just snap your fingers and make things appear.

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Originally posted by WH:

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
Again I'm talking about basic water. How many days is acceptable?

You can't just snap your fingers and make things appear.

Again how many days?

How can we send actual STUFF over there? I don't want to donate a bunch of money for someone to take their cut of.

Ronnie...
As many as it takes...that is what is acceptable...this is a logistical nightmare...millions of people affected and no infrastructure to support anything...

First you have to repair the airport...it was totally damaged...runways have to repaired, lighting setup, etc...that takes time...it may look like things are not being done...but this is not snap your finger and poof...this is not reality TV..this is as REAL AS IT GETS...

Let our people do their job...they are the best...

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:

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Originally posted by WH:

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
Again I'm talking about basic water. How many days is acceptable?

You can't just snap your fingers and make things appear.

Again how many days?

Some help is there now according to this article.

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Originally posted by beyonce:
How can we send actual STUFF over there? I don't want to donate a bunch of money for someone to take their cut of.

Sad but true. The govt. there can't be trusted.

Even if you are a Fox regular, stay on CNN for a while tonight. You will learn a lot- all of which some of us have said. There are first hand videos of streets, airport, and the harbor. The lifting crane at the port is gone, for example. I alternate between Fox and CNN. Rescuers and other aid on ground and are in streets as I post.

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Even if you are a Fox regular, stay on CNN for a while tonight.

Off topic, I watch all 3 Cable News networks and CNN the least by far but I think it was better when we only had CNN they just seem the most honest or at least they push an agenda far less than the other two.

Just can't watch Larry King because he looks like a skeleton.

cnn to the left and fox is to the right. it is interesting to see both their perspectives and how different they are.

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:

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Originally posted by WH:

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
Again I'm talking about basic water. How many days is acceptable?

You can't just snap your fingers and make things appear.

Again how many days?

In disaster preparedness we tell people they will not see significant aid for 72 hrs, and that is a liberal estimate.

Considering the port is out of commission, the airport has a single runway with very little ramp space and the roads are impassable I think it is going reasonably well.

The amount of resources needed for the entire city of Port-Au-Prince can't be moved overnight.

I know of 4 Urban Search and Rescue teams, 6 Disaster Medical Assistance Teams, 2 Disaster Mortuary Teams that are currently enroute from the US. The carrier Vinson and other USN assets are either enroute or on scene. The hospital ship Comfort will be departing Baltimore this weekend. The USCG has cutters on scene and their helicopters have already evacuated some patients. Other countries are either enroute or on scene also. And more resources are ramping up. Sounds like a pretty robust response to me.

Maybe your expectations are unrealistic?

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Originally posted by Ronnie P.:
Tell the Haitians it's fabricated. The post I linked says they have been 3 days without food or water. Haiti is 700 miles from here by unobstructed water.

You watch some of that video and tell me we are doing everything we can. We aren't,

Listen up, you asinine anklebiter!! Very shortly after the earthquake struck ,the U.S. deployed the U.S.S. Carl Vinson (http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=200&ct=4 ), an aircraft carrier, to Haiti with an on-board capacity of producing about 400,000 gallons per day of drinking water. That is a lot of that "basic water" you keep yammering about..

The Vinson's food service divisions can serve 18,000 meals per day. This ship will soon--if it has not already--be in Haiti providing vital assistance to the distressed and hurting peopthere.

Since instantaneous teleportation of a 97,000-ton displacement vessel is not possible with current technology, the Vinson was not able to meet the kind of timetable that you, in your vast ignorance and with your rotten political agenda, seem to have set for it.

All kinds of other aid is on the way to Haiti from the U.S. government and from non-governmental relief agencies, all of which are struggling in the face of very difficult communication and transportation problems. From what I have seen in the news reports, all of them are doing all they can under very difficult circumstances to get food, water and medical assistance to that stricken nation.

They can all do without swinish commentary from ignorami like you!

Tell him like it is beternU!

If only we had that same sense of imperative when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans! Why do we scramble and mobilize our full resources to aid with Indonesian tsunamis and Haitian earthquakes yet our own citizens on the Gulf Coast still await normalcy?

I still don't see an aid so keep patting yourself on the back about how awesome we are.

Please turn on your TV! Thank you! Maybe it would be intersting for you to detail your aid plan from hour one so we can see it!

Well Miami is 1:30 minutes from Haiti by Air. We have at least 5,000 men at Benning that can jump out of planes. We could probably have at least water air dropped in 12 hours after the quake. What is it going on about 3 days now?

the news said the aftershocks were pretty bad and still going on. i would hate to see the aid workers killed by an aftershock.

Infrastrucure, Ronnie! The news reported last night that a truck with sandwiches and water was attempting to hand out food and the stronger men knocked the women down. Can you not imagine the scene when water dropped onto the streets with no order? We are still waiting for your detailed plan.

I don't think you'll ever get a positive comment out of this person. It is all negative, negative, negative. To him, it is all Republicans vs. Democrats.

I had already decided to give it up! I would like to see his detailed plan though!

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Originally posted by earthmomma:
I had already decided to give it up! I would like to see his detailed plan though!

I would too and I'd like to know if he has donated.

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Originally posted by daybeggar:
If only we had that same sense of imperative when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans! Why do we scramble and mobilize our full resources to aid with Indonesian tsunamis and Haitian earthquakes yet our own citizens on the Gulf Coast still await normalcy?

Maybe the reason has something to do with who was in charge. Do you not remember that it was Bush and his sidekick "Brownie," ("You're doin' a heckuva job") who "(im)mobilized relief resources to New Orleans?!

It does seem like this is political to you people. I'm just asking where the water is? You don't need infrastructure to drop water from a plane.