Reply #126: Are you out of your mind?

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

The Bush Administration spent months planning the invasion of Iraq -- the Haitian earthquake happened with no advace warning of any kind.

Secondly, if the object is to blow up everything in sight and ask questions later, it's obviously a little easier to invade a country than to get aid to a city stricken with a natural disaster.

There are a million or more people effected by this. Let's assume that they need 64 ounces of potable water each day. Now in the one week since the earthquake, that would mean a need for 3.5 million gallons of drinking water. That would be something on the order of a Supertanker loaded with drinking water -- you just don't get that out of the garden hose.

And then there's food. We're talking about thousands of tons of food, which isn't laying around somewhere waiting to be shipped - and even if it were, it's not laying around within 500 miles of Haiti and even if it were, there aren't enough C-17's available to get it there. At least not within the timeframe you're talking about.

Criminy.