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Upfront_News URGENT — CNN REPORTER IN PORT-AU-PRINCE SAYS GUN SHOTS CAN BE HEARD IN THE CITY. NO OTHER DETAILS
This is going to be really sad and really ugly for many, many months to come
Clinton was so afraid of casualties that he wouldn't let the Marine deploy and kept them on the ships.
In Katrina on the third day people were firing at rescue helicopters.... By tomorrow or the next day, there will be major civil unrest in Haiti.... in some ways I’m surprised it hasn’t happened already....
Yep. :-(
And America and the West are going to be quietly congratulating ourselves for a long time about all our offered charity (most of which will go to corruption and strengthening the dictatorship). But what these people desperately need is proper government i.e. liberty and justice.
“This”, meaning Haiti, has been really really ugly for 2 freakin’ centuries.
If it wasn’t an earthquake, it would have been another hurricane. Or a mudslide. Or an infestation of flies and frogs. Or a volcanic eruption. Anything would do, but now we have another full blown Haitian crisis to distract everyone from what’s going on behind closed doors in DC.
I heard one report on the radio today that estimated the deaths at 500,000; even though you cannot even make a long distance call to the island on a good day, and there is no reliable information coming out of the country. The guy making that report sounded excited at the prospects of so many deaths.
I’ll go out on a very firm limb here and say that I don’t believe there are anywhere near as many deaths as are being predicted (and nearly wished for) in the mainstream media.
There is no doubt that the situation in Haiti is sickening, but it has been that way for well over 200 years and isn’t likely to change any time soon. Brian Williams and his rich white NBC friends are live from Haiti tonight, and they really need to be careful that they don’t wander into the wrong neighborhood tonight, because they are likely to end up with a flaming tire around their necks. That’s how they do business in Port au Prince on a regular basis...