We're burning up foreign aid - to us.

[Obamanaut]

No wonder some Europeans don’t like us.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=16147117&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=exclusive--58--up-in-flames-name_page.html

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US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.
Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption
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"The FDA has recalled aid from Britain because it has been condemned as unfit for human consumption, despite the fact that these are Nato approved rations of exactly the same type fed to British soldiers in Iraq.
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The worker added: "There will be a cloud of smoke above Little Rock soon - of burned food, of anger and of shame that the world's richest nation couldn't organise a p**s up in a brewery and lets Americans starve while they arrogantly observe petty regulations.
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[brokensymmetry]

1. Nominated. Everyone needs to see this.

Please, read the article.

We're burning up some 400,000 British rations - each of which is about 3,600 calories, and made for an entire day's needs.

And it gets worse!

Please, read, kick, and nominate this article!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. This is senseless. Can it not be tested before being destroyed?

[back2basics909]

3. Its the Mirror...

.. you have to understand that the tabloids in England are liberal with the truth.

Be carefull with this, i have doubts about it's acuracy.

[ComerPerro]

4. (insert your favorite British cooking joke here)

[TX-RAT]

5. If it's like the C-Rats i had to eat, I'd burn them too.