U.S. 'outraged' by Myanmar's delays of aid

[Contrary1]

And who better than this administration to feign "outrage"?

YANGON, Myanmar - The United States is "outraged" by Myanmar's delays in allowing relief workers and aid shipments into the cyclone-devastated country, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations said Thursday.

"We're outraged by the slowness of the response of the government of Burma (Myanmar) to welcome and accept assistance," U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad told reporters. "It's clear that the government's ability to deal with the situation, which is catastrophic, is limited."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24514879/

The irony of it all.

Satellite images show flooding similar in magnitude to Hurricane Katrina

"...Jim Andrews, a senior meteorologist at AccuWeather, said that satellite photos taken after the storm showed flooding of similar magnitude to that of Hurricane Katrina. He said water covered thousands of square miles in the Irrawaddy Delta, although it was unclear how deep the water was.

"It's a similar kind of land to New Orleans ... an intricate network of tidal creeks and openings that allow easy access for a powerful storm surge to penetrate right into populated land," said Andrews. "The impact was maybe the same order of magnitude as Hurricane Katrina...."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24508953/

[SpiralHawk]

1. "It's totally upsetting our storm-relief efforts. Smirk." - Commander AWOL & McSame

[Fridays Child]

13. I'll bet Babs never let her kids put more than a 10¢ apiece in the March of Dimes collection box.

[louis-t]

2. Stupidface offers 3 mil to a country that just lost 100,000 people.

He also wants to send our troops there. Wonder why Myanmar has rejected that idea.

[glowing]

8. Is there an Exxon ship sitting on the wings or something? After the

tidal wave Christmas time, Exxon fleet was waiting in the wings to come and steel certain little countries oil reserves. Vultures they are.

[malaise]

16. Chevron

Bushco can't fool me

[glowing]

26. I knew it was one of them.. they take turns...

Its amazing how this shit is just always so rinse and repeat and people just don't get it.

[sarge43]

11. $30 per person.

If that doesn't sum up the 'value' that monster places on human beings ....

[havocmom]

3. neocon projection knows no bounds

no shame

[Warpy]

4. And how long did this administration keep help sitting on the

I-10 tarmac outside New Orleans in 2005 because an administration shithead had rewritten the disaster manual to treat hurricanes like they were contagious?

This bunch of cretins has absolutely no moral force in criticizing the bad government of Burma. They are every bit as bad.

[glowing]

5. hmm.. this coming from the same US that refused Dr.s from Cuba and

other international aids by other countries while people died in the aftermath of Katrina.

[malaise]

17. And military men from Canada

and water from private citizens in the US and...and...and..and...please don't send Brownie.

[brokensymmetry]

6. So, did someone find oil there?

Just asking.

[sarge43]

7. And NOLA citizens are still living in poisonous house trailers

Those creatures work in hypocrisy the way Michelangelo worked in marble.

[SunDrop23]

9. This is not really the place for me to make this comment, but...

This past weekend I worked with a group of guys rebuilding a screened in back porch for one of the elderly couples in our neighborhood - okay I stood around and handed them tools and stuff, because I am not good with home improvement, but I was helping in my own way :) - when one of the guys who is a civilian contractor at a local military base started talking about all the great reconstruction the troops are doing in Afghanistan. One of the more adamant * supporters jumped up on a stump and said "yea that's right 90% of the troops over there aren't firing weapons they are rebuilding..." to which I replied "imagine what they could be doing if they were here in OUR country..." Needless to say my opinion was the minority and needless to say the group quickly decided they didn't so much need my help anymore, so I spent the rest of the time inside visiting with the delightful elderly couple.

Anyway...

[sarge43]

14. "civilian contractor at a local military base"

You should have asked him about the condition of the barracks. Would he want his kids to live in them?

[SunDrop23]

22. Why should he care? After all "they volunteered," right?

:sarcasm:

[sarge43]

25. Oh yeah, that's right.

They're just commas after all.

[Fridays Child]

10. In his predictably opportunist manner, Bush is exploiting this tragedy...

...to attempt to rehabilitate his failed legacy. The fact that he can't get it right only proves that it's mere posturing on his part.

[CottonBear]

12. Just change the headline to: "Katrina victims 'outraged' by Bush's delays of aid"

:grr: I fucking hate George W. Bush. :grr:

[LynnTheDem]

15. World's still outraged by Katrina & NO.

It's the hypocrisy, stupid!

Or is it the stupid hypocrisy?

Or just the stupid?

Damn, America sure is full of both these days.

[Zywiec]

18. Isn't it best we just mind our own business and let Cuba handle the relief?

What is our interest over there?

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Shock doctrine

this is a great opportunity to make a killing, no pun

[Subdivisions]

24. BINGO!! They are so desperate to get in there and

start moving those people into refugee camps and build hotels for their business buddies like they did to the fishermen and women in Thailand and Sri Lanka after the tsunami, as Naomi Klein says in her book "Shock Doctrine".

Took me weeks to complete that book because I'd get so angry I had to put it down several times. They are rabid to do their thang in Burma.

[spanone]

20. maybe they should wake up their leader and play him a dvd of the situation..worked once

[bdamomma]

21. what effing hypocrites.

they are "outraged" huh? they were not too "outraged" when it took five days to respond to Katrina. This regime can go to hell.

[Wizard777]

23. So 5 days IS too long. We should be pissed at Bush and Mc Cain about Katrina.

I say Mc Cain. Because as people were drowning in NOLA. Bush was partying it down at Mc Cains Birthday Party. Mc Cain should have told him. George there are people dying in NOLA. You don't have to go there. But you can't stay here.