Earthquake hit at 5:30pmish on Tuesday, right? When is it you think the U.S. hospital ship Comfort left it’s dock in Baltimore? Especially knowing the distance between MD and Haiti? Any guesses?
How about yesterday? Yeah...Saturday. Unreal.
http://wtop.com/index.php?nid=836&sid=1862996 It’s quite a stunner to learn that it takes 5 whole days to prepare a hospital ship for deployment.
http://www.wusa9.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=95915&provider=top Five days..which makes you wonder what the point is, after all. You know how many lives are lost in the first 5 days of a natural disaster?
While Obama is not to blame for that (sounds systemic to me), I’d sure figure out a better way to deploy within 24 hours. By the time they get to Haiti, it will be almost a week since the earthquake hit.
And Ret. General Honore is not a happy camper:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-01-15-general-criticizes-response_N.htm
dropping water and food everywhere and even if not everybody got some, at least the people would not be in a panic that NO help was coming....
FYI. The hospital ship Comfort was undergoing maintenance at the time of the Haitian earthquake. Systems were dismantled.
It would have taken tug boats to get it out of the harbor any sooner.