Comments on: New Orleans turns to international aid.

By: Bienville

Bienville — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:36:02 +0000

Comment by upside00 â€” June 16, 2007 @ 3:38 pm

Thanks. I found those posts later.

By: Evil Spaniard

Evil Spaniard — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 11:47:41 +0000

Check these links about the foreing aid’s fiasco under the Bush management:

Overseas Katrina aid rejected by America:

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/28926

Most Katrina Aid From Overseas Went Unclaimed:

http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/27859

And many more articles in this link:

http://www.citizensforethics.org/search/node/katrina

All that only shows the incompetence and misguided overpride of the Federal GOP.

By: Axel

Axel — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 06:20:07 +0000

International help for Katrina was a rather frustrating experience because the US, according to your diplomats, as the richest country in the world didn’t need it. And if you were from a country that didn’t support the Iraq war, everything was even more complicated. Nevertheless, there was a lot of international solidarity you’ve probably never heard of.

Two German Army Airbus planes landed in Florida with about 25 tonnes of food rations to be transported to the disaster area. Germany also offered airlifting, vaccination, water purification, medical supplies including German air force hospital planes and emergency electrical power. Further planes were prepared. But the next German Air Force cargo carrying several thousand military rations for survivors of Hurricane Katrina was sent back by US authorities. The official reason? The NATO military rations US soldiers regularly eat during joint operations could carry mad cow disease. Of course they were BSE-free according to NATO and UN rules…

Remember those estimates that it would take three to six months to pump the water out of New Orleans? Just ten days after those estimates were made, the city was more or less dry because a large contingent of German volunteers of the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW), together with special equipment transported by four C-17 Globemasters and three C-5 Galaxies, played a major role in the rescue of New Orleans. They brought 15 high performance pumps – 10 pumps with a capacity of 15,000 litres per minute and 5 pumps with a capacity of 5,000 litres per minute – and 28 vehicles. At the end, the relief team had pumped out 185 Million Gallons of floodwater.

http://tqe.quaker.org/2005/TQE133-EN-Thanks.html

The reaction? An eight-paragraph press release from US Northern Command and the clear political request to leave the country silently and as far as possible…

By: upside00

upside00 — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:38:53 +0000

#54 Bienville -

Check posts 27, and on down. They totally refute his assertions and as usual, the trolls slink away without any response.

By: art

art — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 19:22:23 +0000

Chris, Whaaa? Make some sense please.
Have you been to New Orleans since the flood?
Have you seen the devestation?

There was some money budgeted, not nearly enough to do the job, and only a little of that has made it through the pipeline to those that really need it.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 17:55:07 +0000

What do you expect from school bus nagan

By: Bienville

Bienville — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:37:47 +0000

In 1906, the city of San Francisco was levelled by an earthquake and fire. Within a couple of years it was entirely rebuilt, better than ever. I donâ€™t think a single dollar of public funds went into the effort, much less money from foreign countries.

But then again, back then people werenâ€™t accustomed to sitting on their butts waiting for the government to do for them what they should do for themselves.

Comment by Frank J â€” June 15, 2007 @ 5:40 pm

Would you care to source this assertion?

By: tribalecho

tribalecho — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 13:06:03 +0000

The Today Show is picking this up. Could happen.

By: tribalecho

tribalecho — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:44:26 +0000

Some people in this country love them some sectarianism.

By: tarazan

tarazan — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:22:57 +0000

After two years,we still unable as a ‘Superpower’ to take care of our people in a small city like New Orleans.
While you keep hearing about billions of government and charities dollars spent,the crisis still exists.
It shameful to hear that people are now looking for help from other countries.
What happened to all these billions of dollars budgeted?!!

And the big question is, are we prepared for a bigger crisis to hit a bigger city that could happen in the future?,and what did we learn from what happened in New Orleans?

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 12:13:22 +0000

No this shows how liberalism has failed.

By: Karim

Karim — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 07:55:27 +0000

This speaks volumes with how incompetent and compassionless the Bush administration is.

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:59:05 +0000

david > that is a good idea, but the French probably do not want New Orleans nor Louisiana back. I used to live in St. Augustine, Florida, and a few years ago the King of Spain paid a visit and we in the city hoped Spain would take us back.

By: david

david — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:46:44 +0000

Canadians travel to Cuba all the time. It’s not such a bad place. And must of the poverty is the direct result of the embargo. The USA just cannot allow Castro’s experiment to succeed so it must starve the island.

As for New Orleans, I say it’s time that they rejoined France. I mean, what right did Napoleon have to sell it to Jefferson? I say Louisiana ought to hold a referendum on whether to remain part of the Union or to join the EU. It would be a good deal for New Orleans as the Euro is doing much better than the US dollar at the moment.

By: doctorj

doctorj — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:44:54 +0000

I love these people from elsewhere talking about all the aid NOLA has received. Funny, I am from the area and have lived every moment since Katrina in the crisis of NOLA and the MS Gulf Coast and I have not seen ANYBODY get ANY aid. But you people in Kansas must know better because you heard it on conservative radio and TV. If disaster ever hits your home, let me tell you how it works. First it will take Congress 7 months to “allocate” (a lovely governmental word) the funds needed to help you. Then, because of the Stafford Act you will have to put up 10-15% up front and only re-embursed AFTER you have spent the money to repair the infrastructure. Now, if you have experienced a CATOSTROPHIC disaster, you have noo tax base to have any money to give. Then the government takes 21 months to FINALLY decide that they will waive the Stafford Act as they have done immeditaely after every other disaster including 9-11 and Hurricane Andrew. SInce nothing has been done in all that time it makes it look like it is a local problem, not a national problem. But YOU will never go through a catastrophic disaster. Or will you? This is our government and it is BROKEN. Change must come because this is NOT the country I was brought up to love

By: Jay Randal

Jay Randal — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:31:09 +0000

Nagin > China has lots of cash, but New Orleans would not do well as a new China-town with chop suey restaurants.

By: Squonk

Squonk — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:18:50 +0000

And Smirky just keeps on smirking.

By: upside00

upside00 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:09:17 +0000

#42

If international police would come to this country, the first criminals they would round up would be the BushCo NeoCon Marching Band and Flying Circus camping out at the WH.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:58:22 +0000

New Orleans turns to international aid.Now if they would just turn to international police to solve their crime problems than everything would be ok.

Whats wrong with a 3rd world chocolate city getting international aid?

By: upside00

upside00 — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:33:19 +0000

#39 WalttheMan

We already blew Frank J up and he is long gone. Kinda like the neighbor’s dog who craps in your yard and then slinks away.