Bush is mum on Haiti's suffering

[G_j]

**mods: I should have posted this in GD or editorials because it is an opinion piece... sorry, my bad..

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/opinion/9785420.htm

Posted on Wed, Sep. 29, 2004

ROBERT STEINBACK

DISASTER

Bush is mum on Haiti's suffering


Hasn't it always made you swell with pride to see generous Americans handing food, water and encouragement to grateful victims of natural disasters the world over?

Of course it has. We like to think of our nation as selfless and noble. We may be jealous of our tax dollars and critical of government spending on anything that doesn't explode, but only the most callous of us would argue for letting desperate neighbors starve.

Speaking of callous, have you heard President Bush's public pledge to ease the incalculable agony of the Haitian people in the wake of Hurricane Jeanne?

No? Well, there's a good reason. There hasn't been one.

Why hasn't America's compassionate-conservative-in-chief spoken out about our obligation to help our neighbors? Hasn't he been moved by the same photographs you've seen of wretched, dazed Haitian survivors waiting for a meal and a drink of clean water a week after Jeanne wiped out their homes?


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[Richardson08]

1. They have no oil

[kcwayne]

2. and they are black

[natrat]

3. and there is no

domestic political gain to be had

[Catfight]

4. Bush is always AWOL for real life stuff. He hasn't been to a funeral

and death is all around him.

[skylarmae]

5. more bushie lies

this is just more of the same from the 'good ol' boys'. Georgie Porgie says he likes and supports blacks, however whenever it comes down to basic human rights of anyone but the elite, educated, and wealthy are inconsequential. He says he is a man of the people, but Mr. Selected doesn't know what hard work is. As evidenced by the first year on the job for him he vacationed 42% of the time before 9/11.

[madrchsod]

6. haiti?

what`s that?

[Eye and Monkey]

10. Haiti, a small town in West Texas, just up the road from Big Tuna.

Decent chicken-fried steak at the diner. Good folks, salt o' the earth.

(wake up, Georgie...it's time to act like a president again...here, drink this, it'll take the edge off...)

[Elginoid]

7. Bush is mum on EVERYONE'S suffering...

except for those continually persecuted and overtaxed and double-taxed investor class elitists.

[htuttle]

8. Haiti is the other government Bush toppled this last year

And it now seems to be doing WORSE than Iraq, if that is at all possible.

[ozymandius]

9. You want to know what Bush has done?

He has thrown a bone to Haiti into a comprehensive aid package for the Caribbean that has not been passed by Congress yet. In other words, NOTHING.

China has sent peacekeepers there. Yes! China! The U.S. has done nothing.

[Briar]

11. The US got in a US friendly government

via a US backed coup. That's all Bush cared about.

[htuttle]

12. I wouldn't go so far as to call what's running Haiti nowdays a government

A gang, a mob, a cluster of criminals, perhaps. But a government? No.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. Most blacks don't support the chimp so Bush* figures

why should he send more aid to Haiti. Because they are black, they suffer for our (Black Americans) not supporting Bush*.