U.S. (forgetting Katrina) "outraged" by Myanmar's response to cyclone

[halliburtonsux]

U.S. "outraged" by Myanmar's response to cyclone (Burma's response is the same as the Bush junta's! Bush kept international aid out of New Orleans after 'Hurricane Katrina' (blown levies?) so that he could bring in KBR and Blackwater and kill as many poor people and minorities as possible.) 08 May 2008 The United Nations estimates 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar and the United States expressed outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid. "We're outraged by the slowness of the response of the government of Burma (Myanmar) to welcome and accept assistance," U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., Zalmay Khalilzad, told reporters. "It's clear that the government's ability to deal with the situation, which is catastrophic, is limited." ('The United States expressed outrage on Thursday at the delays in allowing in aid.' Really? Well, I am outraged that they are outraged! This is the 'Pot-Kettle' moment of the decade. Heckova job, Brownie Burma!)

Katrina: Authorities bar Red Cross from NOLA; Blackwater gets carte blanche By Xeni Jardin 09 Sep 2005 Armed with assault rifles, contractors from private security firm Blackwater are patrolling the black-water-flooded streets of New Orleans. Meanwhile, unarmed Red Cross workers toting food and medicine have been unable to enter the city for days... Richard Steven Hack says: The reason the Red Cross is not allowed in, according to the Red Cross Web site, is that the authorities believe their presence would invite people to return to the city. Since it would seem the goal of this project is to demolish the city, then dun the former inhabitants for the demolition costs, then seize the property for nonpayment, then auction it off for pennies to Bush cronies and then give Halliburton billions to rebuild it for corporations and whites only, I'd say that policy fits right in.

[uppityperson]

1. k&r indeed.

[halliburtonsux]

3. Thank you.

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[Brewman_Jax]

2. The height of irony

and hypocrisy. :(

[crimsonblue]

5. no

just standard operating procedure for Dubya.

[halliburtonsux]

9. That diagram is amazing!

n/t

[crimsonblue]

12. just one of the wonders you will find

when you google image search Bush + any word you think of

[halliburtonsux]

25. Was it last edited in 2003? If so, it needs to be updated and expanded.

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[L. Coyote]

4. Political propaganda opportunity, making another junta look worse than Bush'a junta!

nothing more!

[halliburtonsux]

6. Good point. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

7. Typical GOP distraction.

Maybe they need to be reminded of their failures in a huge way?

[OneBlueSky]

8. one can only imagine what people in other countries think when they see something like this . . .

the hypocrisy is so blatant that they must just shake their heads in wonder at what has happened to a once great nation . . .

[depakid]

11. I expect that they look at America today much as they did the former Soviet Union

when its government and its press prattled on about similar things....

[tavalon]

14. Honestly, though, the only thing that has changed is how open our current admin.

is about their hypocrisy. The School Of The Americas was not formed under this administration. The Iran/Contra debacle did happen during another Bush tenure, but still another. And well, we weren't exactly kings and princes to the Native Americans, were we? Our long and proud history of hypocrisy is only currently significant for it's brazenness.

[matt007]

10. Way to go Bushco!

At least one country has a slower response time than you. A brutal military junta! lol

After Katrina it was a total society breakdown. Five days later I saw the first Hummer / transport trucks.

Maybe the U.S. really is on its way to being a third world country.

[tavalon]

13. It does ring a little hollow, doesn't it?

When it's us doing the social engineering via death, it's okay, but when Burma does it, well.......

Honestly, we should be outraged, but we should also turn that mirror around. Honestly, though, the average American was and continues to be, appalled by what our own government did to the poor souls of New Orleans. It is our government that should rightly be ashamed.

[halliburtonsux]

18. Another irony the media ignores takes place when Bush's trolls

whine about Iran's *interference* in Iraq.
LOL, whether or not one supports the US invasion/occupation, one has to concur it was and is *interference.*

[annabanana]

15. This needs MORE recs! They are still at it...."unprecedented"

On NBC.. the refusal of assistance is "unprecedented" in the history of relief operations. .

DISGUSTING

[halliburtonsux]

16. OMG, 'unprecedented.' - that's unbelievable.

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[panAmerican]

17. Who best recognizes one hypocrite if not another hypocrite!

[yurbud]

19. DIGG it so broader audience sees it!

[halliburtonsux]

22. Links to actual item and Diggable version:

Click here.

Here is a link to the actual item:
Click here.

[Uncle Joe]

20. Kicked and recommended, I'm just curious, does anyone know if the

corporate media has reported on this irony yet?


Thanks for the thread, halliburtonsux.:thumbsup:

[halliburtonsux]

21. Thanks and no, they haven't.

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[Better Today]

23. Yeah, I've been thinking this since day one. Really bizarre the level

of righteous indignation that is being spouted by us(A).

[halliburtonsux]

24. I think I hate their hypocrisy more than their policies!

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