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To: longjack

Hey, thanks for the nice article, but nice German magazine articles aren't getting people fed. Where are all the Europeans? Chirac and Schroeder may want to become "poles in opposition to US power," but they are AWOL from this immediate situation. Where are the German, French, Italian, and Spanish navies? Don't the Europeans have any airplanes or ships? It is, what, 2-weeks since the disaster and we are still waiting for more than "diplomats" and "assessment groups". Yeah, yeah, thanks for pledging the bits of money and all, but (news for you?), people cannot eat money.

Can any of you nice European FReepers here tell me how many people Germany or France have fed to date? For that matter, how many people has the UN fed? Directly, not including OTHER country's efforts (like the US, Australia, Japan, and Singapore). Medical care? How many patients have the EU relief doctors seen? How many tonnes of medical supplies has the EU delivered?

Maybe socialism has REALLY rendered the EU impotent. Looks like your politicians are really good at insulting and deriding other nations responses, but can't get it up when it comes to actually DOING something (as opposed to dumping some money on the problem and letting others do the heavy lifting).


16 posted on 01/04/2005 5:45:49 PM PST by Owl558 (Don't tread on me!)
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To: Owl558
What you posted seems to me to be the same thing the reporter said.

The Americans are doing the work, the Germans are looking things over and conferring.

His article from yesterday is here:

Free Republic....US-Navy Flying Aid, German Army Still Looking Things Over"

I'm not a European, and I also do know that articles don't feed refugees.

Articles that praise our military are rare, however, especially from Europe and, when there is a European reporter who rides with our guys who has the b*lls to put his praise of them in print, I'm going to translate it if I can.

longjack

20 posted on 01/04/2005 6:06:16 PM PST by longjack
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To: Owl558
Here are my favorite passages;

(1) "For the Americans the mission isn't just help for the desperate Indonesians, it's also an important PR-campaign. They are proving that they don't only wage war against Muslims, they also will stand by them in their hour of need. "

(2) "It was made up today. Beforehand, the Berlin soldiers had already decided to participate in the rescue operations by setting up an "air -land rescue center" in Banda Aceh: a small hospital tent equipped with an operating table, X-Ray machine and laboratory.

However, an advance team is necessary to do this, also. It should start out in the direction of Sumatra on January 6th. In the meantime, the technical relief organization is waiting for the arrival of nine Iljuschin cargo planes, that have nine Unimogs and two SUV's, plus equipment to condition water.

By then, lieutenant Bullaro will have flown quite a bunch of missions with his Seahawk, and will have delivered precious cargo to thousands of tsunami victims."


Hey, Andreas, did you ever hear of Bosnia? And Andreas, aren't Afghans Muslims?
Looks like the Germans can't take criticism and Der Speigel knows it. The dig found in the last paragraph so very subtle. And I was ROTFLMAO reading the second to last paragraph. At least Andreas has a brain and notices the difference between the American Military and what the Germans dare call a "Military Force".

23 posted on 01/04/2005 6:15:13 PM PST by Chgogal
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To: Owl558

Where are the German, French, Italian, and Spanish navies? Don't the Europeans have any airplanes or ships?



LOL Surely, you jest!


We've been EU-rope's military sugar daddy for 64 years.


32 posted on 01/04/2005 7:25:51 PM PST by Finalapproach29er (I can no longer discern real stories from satire on this site. America is losing her common sense.)
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To: Owl558

The Europeans can say all they want to about massive sums of money for "rebuilding" (a giant waste machine)...but those little villagers in Thailand and Sri Lanka...know who is bringing them water each day...and setting up tents...and dumping food on their front doorstep...and its not Europe. They are surviving right now because of what the US is doing...pure and simple. They will remember us 20 years from now when they talk of the great flood...and what the Americans did to help them. Life is fair...we get our payback now...and the Europeans can't say a word. Even Ossama looks like a dog when Muslims in the Pacific say thanks for clean drinking water coming from a US Marine.


47 posted on 01/06/2005 9:55:18 AM PST by pepsionice
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