USS Essex (LHD 2), USS Juneau (LPD-10) and USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) in the Andaman Sea.
Posted on 06/03/2008 9:35:40 PM PDT by GATOR NAVY
A top U.S. military commander says American navy ships off Myanmar's coast will leave the area after failing to get the junta's permission to help with cyclone relief efforts.
Adm. Timothy Keating says that he wants the USS Essex and accompanying vessels to resume their previously scheduled duties on Thursday.
The ships were in the region for international exercises. Keating made them available to help with relief efforts for last month's cyclone and they were deployed near Myanmar in case they obtained permission to enter the country's waters.
But Myanmar allowed only limited U.S. military aid flights to the country, and barred the ships from approaching.
Keating says the U.S. made at least 15 attempts to convince Myanmar's leaders to allow ships to provide additional disaster relief.
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USS Essex (LHD 2), USS Juneau (LPD-10) and USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) in the Andaman Sea.
Can’t say we didn’t try. Sad to say that we won’t get any credit for trying to help.
Just damn.....
God Bless those that still need help....we did try.
To the needle dick, tin pot wanna-be dictator(s).......
May God Bless your rotten soul, should me and you ever cross paths'........
How sick can you be?
depraved communist morons — as always, they would rather make their people starve than allow the great SUPERIORITY of free peoples and economies to be demonstrated
they cannot bear the thought of their people seeing the greatness of US military personnel
May God Bless your rotten soul, should me and you ever cross paths'........
How sick can you be?
No one could have better described the scoundrels than that.
The Chinese are calling the shots for these a-holes!
The Great Obomanation will claim tomorrow that Bush and the GOP refused to help these people of color because they are all racists.
Where is that vaunted European ‘Soft Power’?
( sound of crickets )
Some people are just too stupid to live.
Ain’t it the truth!
We offered. They refused. Screw them.
No problem mon, Mugabe and the UM are meeting in Rome to save the day.
No problem mon, Mugabe and the UM are meeting in Rome to save the day.
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