Posted on 01/16/2010 6:06:39 AM PST by kristinn
“Instead he’s afraid of being a take charge leader.”
He’s not afraid to, he doesn’t know how. Pretty hard to send the teleprompter to do his job for him.
Just saw a cnn vid of a grayish helio droping onto a field - clip center looked ok - but bottom left corner you could see fists and clubs swinging - don’t know if was same but there were fights - just not in the center frame - good editing would remove them alltogether. Voice after clip admitted this might not be the best way to go about it due to the “unrest” it creates...
“I received an email from World Vision in which they explain that they are delivering their own newly-arrived emergency packets thru their network of 800 aid workers already in place on the island before the tragedy. This is an example of a private agency delivering their own aid.
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I got a similar email from Catholic Relief Services. Those groups already had volunteers on the ground.
From what I understand they (or aircraft similar) air hospitals are being used in Afganistan and Iran for flights to the hospital in Frankfurt A/Main. But from what I understand the airport in Port Au Prince can’t handle them otherwise you’d hear about it.
The Vinson does have the capability to have certain type of turboprop twin transports that can land an take off on it. But only a relative handfew of navy pilots have been trained to do so.
For the Vinson to work in these situations it has to have the training and backup of the type of aircraft and trained pilots which it can accomdate to be successful. Otherwise its a “statement”.
Thank you for this information; very informative.
I think what Haiti really needs is some community organizers.
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