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erpowers

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Mon Sep-08-08 05:42 PM
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Situation Sad in Haiti

I have not been to Haiti, but I was watching the news and saw what happened as a result of Hurricane Ike. It is sad that American Navy ships can be sent to Georgia to give aid, but no ships are being sent to Haiti to give aid. I know some people will say that the reason none of our ships are going to Haiti is because the residents of the island are dark skinned. However, is there any type of rule that prevents our military from going to Haiti to render aid in that country? I just do not see why we are not sending ships to Haiti to help them. Can anyone tell me why?

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Cleita

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Mon Sep-08-08 05:52 PM
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1. We have always been very mean towards helping Haiti with anything (I mean

our government). It seems because they are so poor they don't matter. I hope at least some church groups or other charitable organizations may be able to help these people and this island. Also, weren't our navy ships in the area rattling sabers at Iran? So maybe they were closer to Georgia than they are to Haita. It does not make me feel secure when our navy is half way across the world instead of at home ready to defend us and our neighbors in case of war or disaster.

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Matariki

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Mon Sep-08-08 05:58 PM
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3. Sadly, many protestant church groups there use the aid as religious blackmail

Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 05:58 PM by kineta

There's a saying about Haiti - "Haiti is 90% Catholic, 10% Protestant, and 100%. Vodouist."

The Catholic church now coexists fairly well with the Vodou religion, but Protestants wage an all out war, and often use their donations as ammunition in that war. That's what I've been told by people who live there anyway.

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Cleita

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Mon Sep-08-08 06:05 PM
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6. That's why I'm against federal money being given to these

faith based charities. Regardless I hope that the people get the help they need with a minimum of harassment. Anybody who wants to donate to help a relief effort shouldn't send their money to those church groups who do that.

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Matariki

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Mon Sep-08-08 06:22 PM
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8. Some longer term solutions:

http://www.lambifund.org/newsletter2007-2/2007-2p3.htm
http://www.globalgiving.com/pr/1600/proj1516a.html?RF=sedge
http://www.haitiinnovation.org/en/blog-tags-2/heifer-international

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malaise

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Mon Sep-08-08 05:56 PM
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2. Haiti doesn't have oil

and those damn black people dared to kick the French out and set up a Republic. :sarcasm: The only US interest in Haiti is ensuring that there is no democracy for the Haitian people.
They've been tormented for that ever since.

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ColbertWatcher

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Mon Sep-08-08 06:06 PM
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7. I hate this.

Americans were able to forget we kicked out their elected leader.

We were able to forget all the other hurricanes that blew through there and killed people.

We never knew the consequences of our policies and how it starves everyone.

I wonder what plans the GOP has for Haiti when they hate the people there so much?

Another foreign country to use for renditions?

Every day another tragic story comes out of Haiti and it sickens me.

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EFerrari

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Mon Sep-08-08 05:59 PM
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4. Haiti is still being punished for the crime of black people insisting on

their humanity all that time ago.

They humiliated the US. They will continue to be punished just as Cuba is being punished because Fidel didn't sell out to us.

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seemslikeadream

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Mon Sep-08-08 05:59 PM
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5. Haiti

Edited on Mon Sep-08-08 06:04 PM by seemslikeadream

Photo from Reuters Pictures
18 hours ago: A U.N. peacekeeper is seen near Haitian children in a river after floods near Port-au-Prince, September 7, 2008. Officials said at least 61 people had died in floods in impoverished Haiti on top of 500 killed last week by Tropical Storm Hanna.

Photo from Getty Images by AFP/Getty Images
7 hours ago: People observe flood damage on September 8, 2008 in Cabaret. Hurricane Ike has killed 61 people in Haiti, including 57 in a single village, civil protection officials said in an updated toll given Monday. "Fifty-seven people including many children aged one to seven are dead in Cabaret, three died in Gonaives and one further north," Nazaire Tide, a member of the Haiti's Office of Civilian Protection, told AFP. Many houses were destroyed by flooding and mudslides in Cabaret, a village 35 kilometers (22 miles) from Port-au-Prince. The town's food market was held Monday amid scenes of devastation, an AFP journalist saw. A huge mudslide left a gaping hole after carrying entire houses into a river.

Photo from Reuters Pictures
18 hours ago: Haitians cross a river after floods near Port-au-Prince September 7, 2008. Officials said at least 61 people had died in floods in impoverished Haiti on top of 500 killed last week by Tropical Storm Hanna.

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