Obama pledges 'aggressive' relief effort

[TomCADem]

Source: CNN

"The reports and images that we've seen of collapsed hospitals, crumbled homes and men and women carrying their injured neighbors through the streets are truly heart-wrenching," the president said at the White House.

"For a country and a people who are no strangers to hardship and suffering, this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible."

Obama said U.S. relief efforts are currently focused on a quick accounting of U.S. embassy personnel and their families in Port-au-Prince, as well as other American citizens living and working in Haiti.

The president noted that "military overflights have assessed the damage" from the earthquake and that civilian disaster assistance team were beginning to arrive in Haiti.

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[Cha]

1. Thanks Tom..

And thanks to all those people in the military and everyone who is helping with Haiti's tragic Earthquake.

[Mithreal]

2. Good, swing open the doors to immigration too

"...this tragedy seems especially cruel and incomprehensible."

What is he talking about? God? Fine, use it as an excuse to change America's course in this hemisphere to relief and support. Close the School of the Americas and use this tragedy to increase good will around the world.

That is what I would do.