Posted on 01/18/2010 6:48:50 AM PST by kristinn
With the window of survivability still open for Haitians trapped in the rubble of last week's catastrophic earthquake, the UN and FEMA are telling search and rescue teams waiting to deploy to Haiti to forget about it.
Reports out of Houston are saying that one of the premier search and rescue units in the world has been on standby since shortly after the quake but was never called.
Texas TV station KTRK gave this description of Texas Task Force 1:
The TX-TF1 team which was activated for this deployment was a Type I Urban Search and Rescue Team which is comprised of 80 personnel, 4 search and rescue canines, search and technical rescue personnel, physicians, paramedics, structural engineers, other support personnel, and approximately 50 tons of rescue equipment and supplies. The team is self-sustaining for 14 days and deployable by aircraft to anywhere within 4 hours of activation. The task force has also deployed nationally over 70 times, to include the Shuttle Columbia disaster, the World Trade Center, Hurricanes Katrina and Ike.
KTRK and The Houston Chronicle are both reporting:
"The United Nations mission in the country has declared the search and rescue teams already in the nation are sufficient to handle the task and the Texas team and others prepared to deploy would not be needed."
Anyone paying attention over the weekend knows that people were still being rescued, and others that rescuers knew were alive died while waiting to be rescued.
This is yet one more example of Barack Obama failing to take the bull by the horns and get promised help to the Haitians quickly and efficiently.
Reuters notes that there is talk that Obama's response could end up hurting him politically:
This could be a foreign policy Katrina for Obama," said Larry Birns, director of the Council on Hemispheric Affairs, a Washington think tank.
Birns said already there were negative headlines coming out of Haiti because aid is flowing too slowly.
"The Obama administration cannot allow itself to be tarnished by the kind of headlines that Bush was getting because of Katrina," he said.
The Obama administration has made a show of portraying Obama as hands-on in the relief effort, even releasing a timeline of his phone calls and meetings on Haiti since the quake struck.
Obama spent yesterday campaigning, first in a Black church in Washington, D.C. and then in Boston for Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Martha Coakley.
In Paris, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said today that an international Haiti reconstruction conference will be held on Jan. 25 in Montreal.
There ya go Haiti, all your problems are solved.
ahhhhh...the dividing up of the spoils.
“Do you have a link that shows that Haitians are being brought to this shore?”
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You will know the Haitians are in Florida when the chickens start disappearing.
US Must Not Occupy Haiti,,,
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/the-u-s-must-not-occupy-haiti-declares-french-minister-as-aid-finally-trickles-through/
Militarization of Emergency...
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/the-militarization-of-emergency-aid-to-haiti-is-it-a-humanitarian-operation-or-an-invasion-by-michel-chossudovsky/
they’ve been pouring money and people into it, buying commodities etc.
This last Saturday, my wife and I were out running some errands in the area, and we had lunch close by Ellington Field where TF1 was staged, ready to go...
A few of those folks were having lunch in a booth next to ours and we asked them when they were heading out???
They said they didn’t know...
Now we know...
Obama spent yesterday campaigning, first in a Black church in Washington, D.C. and then in Boston for Democrat U.S. Senate nominee Martha Coakley.
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Let’s not forget the big birthday party for the first Wookie Saturday night. Priorities dontcha know.
UN: dont send rescuers, just send lots of cash and hot chicks
LOL. Me too. I just keep eating healthier and healthier cause I know that by the time I get to medicare, it won’t pay for anything. Just stay healthy as long as possible.
Again, the UN:
From Lynch mobs turn on looters amid Haiti aid crisis
Snip:
It is not being helped by the UN’s move to defer decision-making on aid distribution and rescue teams to a government that scarcely exists
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2430978/posts
In other words, the US is blamed for not getting things moving and now you know why.
The UN hates black people. See Rwanda. /s
Please Lord, take the UN from us.
And where is Hillary in all of this? She had her photo op at the airport the other day. Why are no teams being dispatched to search for the missing girls and their professors who were trapped in the hotel?
They don’t seem to have any skin in the game. I actually felt guilty food shopping yesterday.
We have no choice. If we don’t help, they will come here, in the thousands, and we will have to deal with them.
ping
Correct - but he is the CIC of the military forces he sent to Haiti and should have had some sort of a plan worked out for when they got there.
I was shocked to see on CNN a reporter (or some person, not sure who) implying the IDF hospital was the only one worth anything. They had all kinds of equipment and were doing a great job was the implication.
We SHOULD help them because we have the means to do it. Keeping them there should always be the goal.
With 100,000+ dead, in 80-90 degree heat, for nearly a week, they should have done nothing less. I despise the UN as much as anyone, but what are a few thousand people to do with that much decaing flesh?
Anyone look at the pictures from the Air Force posted on a recent thread? Huge hi res shots around the airport.
Very little damage to buildings in the area there. No cracks in the runways. I think they want people to stay away because the damage is not as bad as the liberal media is spinning it.
This is all about flooding Florida with Haitians and Obama is running flights now with a fleet of C-17s to 4 airports in FL. The media is lying to us.
Obama is flying C-17s filled with Haitians now. Palin better figure out how to win in 2012 without FLorida.
They do not want rescue cues in there because the damage may not be as bad as they are making it out to be.
No cracks in the runways at the airport. All the buildings around the airport and hangars are standing?????
JUST SEND MONEY!!!
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