I don’t know if an Aristide administration would have handled this crisis any better but the goons George installed are a disgrace.
PORT-AU-PRINCE: Gunmen raided homes and stole food from Haitians outside aid distribution centres as UN troops struggled yesterday to maintain order in the chaos left by floods in which 2000 people may have died.
MSNBC runs an AP report that falls short of accurately portraying the history of peace talks in Sudan and states that the gov’t alone is now standing in the way of autonomy for Darfur. David Brooks has a grand ole time at Darfurians expense blaming everything left of Colin Powell for the continuing deaths but doesn’t deem it important enough to mention that most Darfurians are dying today, right now, in large part due a selectively benevolent, surgically inhumane gov’t that can send ‘smart bombs’ to Israel but can’t figure out how to air lift them the resources they need.
One has to wonder why Rummy has decided to adopt Israel’s way of doing things in Iraq. 50 years of failure apparently isn’t lesson enough. AA’s meme for insanity: “Taking the same action over and over again expecting different results.”
“A woman rescued from the rubble of destroyed houses is rushed to hospital in Fallujah, Iraq, Saturday Sept. 25, 2004. U.S. warplanes, tanks and artillery units bombed the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding 15, hospital officials and witnesses said. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)”