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In Haiti, It's U.S. To The Rescue Again
Investor's Business Daily ^ | 01/13/10 | Editorial

Posted on 01/14/2010 7:10:42 AM PST by IBD editorial writer

Disaster Relief: Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti was its worst since 1770, leaving the capital in ruins and a death toll that may top 100,000. But help is on its way, and it's America leading the effort.

Our tiny tragic neighbor was already in bad shape when the 7.0 earthquake struck the capital of Port-au-Prince. It wasn't just any 7.0 quake, as if that were not bad enough, but a shallow one, meaning it shook harder.

Worse still, it hit the most populated area of the country, where 3 million of the country's 9 million citizens live — and left thousands dead and many more homeless.

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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: duplicate; earthquake; haiti; haitianearthquake; haitiearthquake; haitiquake; haitiquake2010; haitirelief; humanitarian; humanitarianrelief; relief; rescue; usnavy; ussoutherncommand
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To: Red Badger
We should just annex it and make it a state ...

Brilliant suggestion, ... much better, give it back to France.

41 posted on 01/14/2010 7:51:55 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: hinckley buzzard
The last thing we need is nine million primitive voodoo- worshipping illiterates.


42 posted on 01/15/2010 4:51:24 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: hinckley buzzard

You mean:

The last thing we need is nine million MORE primitive voodoo- worshipping illiterates.....................


43 posted on 01/15/2010 5:17:55 AM PST by Red Badger (Obama - The first ever elected lame duck..............)
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To: IBD editorial writer

The irony here is thay Bush appears with Bubba and the One, both of whom blamed Dubya for Katrina. Unlike Haiti, Louisiana and New Orleans both had a functioning government led by Democratic liberals.


44 posted on 01/16/2010 11:57:25 AM PST by raptor22 (The truth will set us free)
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