I love seeing the US military actually helping people

[librarycard]

rather than alienating them, as Bush would prefer.

[Historic NY]

1. Me too....my nieces unit worked for several years in....

El Salvador rebuilding aid stations and hospitals after the floods and mud slides.

[librarycard]

2. This US military action won't reap societal ills for our country either

such as spousal, parental or child abuse.

[purduejake]

3. Reminds me of the days when I felt proud to be an American.

[librarycard]

4. Certainly, this is the type of mission our military would prefer

They signed up to help others, after all.


This mission brings good will to all men:



Tsunami refugees stand beneath a U.S. Navy helicopter, awaiting humanitarian supplies distributed by the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group in Kouati Sounam, some 60 miles south of Banda Aceh, January 3, 2005. Some 12,600 U.S. military personnel have joined relief efforts in tsunami-hit Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, many aboard ships carrying clean water, food and dozens of helicopters to get supplies to those in need.



This mission doesn't:

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[anarchy1999]

7. Well you said it all pretty well. How convenient.

What a lovely distraction from the real death and destruction. We now get to see all these lovely pics of our soldiers doing good. Forget Iraq everyone, forget Fallujah, just look at how we are helping the world.

I'm so sorry and so ashamed for this country I used to call home.

[nascarblue]

11. Bravo Carl, I agree...

I'm so sick of Americans ignorance, even many on this site. I really can't even stomach this government playing hero with the mainstream media playing it up for them. How ridiculous is it that we have hundreds of reporters over there before any aid even arrived? And what is these photos? A couple of helicopters and a dozen soldiers out of 400,000?

Whenever I see Paula Zahn or Anderson Cooper feigning sympathy for these people, all I can do is say "shut the fuck up you hypocrites!" What about all the Iraqis we've purposefully laid our man-made tsunami on for the past two years? Where's all your sympathy stories on starving Iraqi children drinking DU contaminated water? Where's your human interest stories about torture survivors? Limb-less children? Orphans? Napalmed women? Refugee camps? Where's the 90,000 gallons of fresh water for Iraqi's from the same USS Lincoln thats been stationed in the Persian Gulf for the past 2 years?

[tx_dem41]

12. So, in other words....sympathy and aid are evil. n/t

[SodoffBush]

14. After 21 months of "shock and awe" against a people who had done nothing

to the US, I find it refreshing to see even a single pic of a US soldier being tasked to provide honest-to-god aid to those in dire straits. Show me one photo of US troops being tasked to help Iraqis, with the outcome being a positive one. You can't. There is only death and destruction, Bush's own little-man-made disaster.

US service members are multi-tasked in Iraq and Afghanistan as is. Bush can't really afford to have them involved in disaster relief right now. Sure he's going to use this small sampling of help, with his what, $350 million-promised-but-not-yet-delivered for propaganda purposes. What did you expect from Bush, realistically? 1% of the US' gross domestic product for tsunami aid (I'd be happy with .2%) and an immediate withdrawal from Iraq due to Bush being wracked with contrition over a foreign policy marked by murder and mayhem?

[jdonaldball]

6. Remember the Berlin Airlift

[BlueCollar]

8. and the Boat People

reconnaissance and rescue missions?

[hollowdweller]

9. Counterbalance for the US "Tsunami" in Iraq that killed 100,000 innocent?

[SodoffBush]

10. Ah ha! Here's the post that has sent Carl on his desperate quest

for enlightenment elsewhere, probably a lingerie model with a tubal ligation and a Ph.D. I can picture him now, loitering around Piccadilly Circus, charging ten quid a photo, of his bare ass, to Japanese tourists. Now THERE'S a public service! The pay is poor, but it's a job that allows little guys to look like studs.

Good luck to you, Carl. We'll miss your two expressions: Menopausal Hot Flushes and "The Deeply Pissed Off Post."

[anarchy1999]

13. How incredibly convenient. What a photo op for us all, while Iraq goes

to hell. Don't our guys look great!

sarcasm not off.

Meanwhile back in the US there is another stolen election and the people do nothing. Just look to the Ukrainians, maybe someday we will look back.......