Is the US charging it's citizens for evacuation....

Did I just here this on the CBS morning show....

That the US is charging it's citizens for evacuation....

An indignant young lady said this to Harry Smith and she said she was going to bill the Isreali government for her costs...

Hopefully you'll get someone to answer.

Thanks!!

on a few news shows. No concrete info yet, but that seems to be the growing rumor.

Editted to add this:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13902115/
"Joanne Nucho finished packing in the early morning hours Tuesday. Nucho, a student at American University in Beirut, said there was talk that Americans would have to pay a $300 evacuation fee, not be allowed to take laptops or cameras and be left to sleep on the streets of Cyprus."

to the deck, no shows on this Love Boat!

Joanne Nucho finished packing in the early morning hours Tuesday. Nucho, a student at American University in Beirut, said there was talk that Americans would have to pay a $300 evacuation fee, not be allowed to take laptops or cameras and be left to sleep on the streets of Cyprus.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13902115

heaven forbid if the government should overcharge its citizens for their mistakes. Good grief, how inept are we? Wow, now that I think about it, the answer is "completely".

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/2006/07/email_from_beir.html

Don't forget to click on the link "a little surprise"--it takes you to a letter from the US Embassy saying "The Department of State reminds American citizens that the U.S. government does not provide no-cost transportation but does have the authority to provide repatriation loans to those in financial need. For the portion of your trip directly handled by the U.S. Government we will ask you to sign a promissory note and we will bill you at a later date."

Sleazy, to say the least.

someone has got to pay them.

"At the State Department, McCormack said the cost of a massive evacuation was beyond U.S. resources."

I thought the US was a superpower. I guess when you have borrowed to the hilt and are paying contractors through the nose for a fabricated war in Iraq, you just can't afford to help US citizens avoid catastrophes.

Or a Congress Criter....

They would send a fucking fleet to make sure they got out...

Bush wants Americans to get caught up in the crossfire as more deaths for our fellow citizens would, in his mindlessness, justify further invasions in the Middle East.

It is no small coincidence that Israel invaded Palestine and Lebanon immediately after Bush's record low approval ratings were announced by Rasmussen's polls. Every single time that low approval ratings are announced something wicked happens in Bush's war: Fallujah, the capture of an AQ leader, or the death of some "terrorist" is immediately announced after Rasmussen makes its reports. This is precisely what happened here.

That is why Israel started its criminal invasions and why Bush is so gleeful to have American lives jeopardized in the ME. Note by contrast how the French and Italian governments immediately pulled its citizens into safety. And now you know why Bush won't protect our fellow citizens.

Americans stranded...can't get their way to the boat...can't bring their pets...5 days too late as usual for this Administration to react...

If we couldn't rescue americans in our own country, how can these Americans EVEN THINK they have a shot of getting out of there???

American lady. She said she asked to bring her father out with her but was told she could NOT. She said it was a difficult decision to leave her father behind. She was very teary-eyed.

Was there a reason given for why the father could not leave with his daughter?


Kudos for her statement that she is going to send the $300 evacuation bill to the Israeli government!

talking about what is really going on there!

Remember the Katrina victims afraid of getting on the Cruise ships in Houston?

$300 is the gas bill, you know those guys get their money first!

Didn't see the story -- but is her father not a US citizen / legal resident?

This would indeed be an awful time for Lebanese-Americans or Lebanese-Canadians and so on, visiting family in Lebanon, then getting evacuated and having to leave the Lebanese family members behind.

But obviously the evacuations are not planned, by their countries of nationality, as a mass relocation effort for the extended families of people of Lebanese origin/background who have emigrated or been born outside Lebanon.

One might think a quickie program could be organized for close family like aging parents, though.

or so I heard on Newsworld this morning.

Of course, given the hash that the Cdn govt is making of the operation (nobody will be picked up until tomorrow), I imagine some of the Cdns there would be happy to pay someone else to do it!