american treatment of american tsunami victums sucked

[donsu]

http://www.newsdissector.org/weblog/

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AMERICAN VICTIM CRITICIZES US GOV'T

We have heard about the experience of people caught in the Tsumani. Strangly the US media has downplayed the Americans who were killed or are missing. One victim who survived attacks the US government's response to Americans who needed help:
"In Bangkok most people got help pretty quick. The Swedes, Germans and English had charted flights for their citizens to get home. The Thai government gave free hotel rooms to survivors and there were lists of places to get food. EXCEPT the Americans. I went in to find out what help I could get - I was able to get a replacement passport, a toothbrush and a paperback book. They said it was not their policy to arrange flights home. I was cut up, still covered in a pretty good layer of mud, I had no home, no money, no clothing (except some borrowed off Keith) nothing at all, and they could do nothing to help.

"They did offer to let me borrow money, but they would have to find three people in America who would vouch for me, and that process should take less than a week. In the mean time I was fucked. I was destitute and rejected by the embassy. Karin was with me (she's Swedish) and said that I could still try and emigrate to Sweden. I was VERY tempted.

"In these last days, watching politicians go on about helping and giving aid, but they won't even take care of their own citizens? I am very, very angry. All the other nations of the world were taking care of their own citizens! Eventually I got a flight home with JAL (that would be JAPAN airlines) not even an American company, but a JAPANESE company helped me get home…."
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[The Backlash Cometh]

1. Welcome to the new American compassion. Where you, the victim,

help them help themselves to government money.

[Bouncy Ball]

2. Yeah and have we heard any updates about all the Americans

who hadn't been heard from?

What's the total? How many Americans were lost in the tsunami and WHY don't we ever hear about them?

Is bushco afraid the total would be more than 9/11 and thus take away all the wonderful political capital they got out of that day?

[tanyev]

3. Compassionate conservatism in action.

[Stephanie]

4. The fish stinks from the head down. Bush didn't give a sh*t

so why should his gov't act? They are STILL hiding the number of Americans lost. Where are the lists? Where are the names? Where are the candlelight memorial services and the promises of aid to the families?

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Sun Dec 26, 1:59 PM ET

AP

President George Bush (news - web sites) pulls his wife first lady Laura Bush into a photo op with the Crawford High School Pirates at Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas, Dec. 26, 2004.

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Sunday Jan. 2, 2005

President Bush (news - web sites) looks over as first lady Laura Bush says goodbye to cheerleaders from Crawford High School, Sunday Jan. 2, 2005 in Waco Texas.

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[Reverend_Smitty]

5. Well "real" Americans wouldn't...

vacation with a bunch of "Godless Muslims" right? So fuck em </sarcasm off> Our government is headed by a bunch of ass holes!