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ls317

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Tue Sep-20-05 05:55 PM
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Up In Flames

Edited on Tue Sep-20-05 05:56 PM by ls317

HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.

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.

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

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TallahasseeGrannie

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Tue Sep-20-05 05:56 PM
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1. How incredibly stupid and insulting to our allies. n/t

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cornermouse

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Tue Sep-20-05 06:03 PM
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3. Yep.

And the next time we need their help....

I'm thinking its because Bush wanted cash only. Anything else he's either already rejected or like this shipment from the British getting ready to destroy.

Sort of looks like his mom never taught him basic manners.

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Horse with no Name

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Tue Sep-20-05 06:14 PM
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4. Yeah. Methinks that Halliburton doesn't like the MRE's

They prefer the cash.

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beingthere

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Tue Sep-20-05 06:00 PM
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2. Along with the ice that didn't get there

The food turned away, the ice turned away, the doctors turned away, many ordinary people trying to help were turned away. Shame, shame.

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