CNN: Kyra is ripping Grassley a new one.....Cancun refugees

[Roxy66]

Boy, this is amazing.....all of these people in Cancun are stranded. The Senator is ending the interview because she is going after him.

[Roxy66]

1. She did great

[DRoseDARs]

4. Up until she apologized..

"I sowwy. Pwease don be mad at me, Senator." :(

:puke:

[Roxy66]

8. Did you hear the rest of the interview...prior to that?

She was practically screaming at him....it was great

[TahitiNut]

2. I think the people who expect direct intervention of US government ...

... when they have difficulties (no matter how serious) overseas are truly misguided. (Cynicism: Only corporations can expect the military's intervention.)

The very reason the State Department issues travel advisories is based on the fact that the sole legitimate intervention is diplomatic and advcacy ... not force. If the government in the foreign country isn't responsive to such issues, that's just too bad. The cartoonish notion that H. Ross Perot will come to the rescue of overseas travelers is a fiction reserved for the very privileged, not the hoi polloi.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. Yes and no

the State Department USED to have plans in place to evac Americans, I was involved in more than one of these wonderful events, (not), but the fact that everythnig is failing is on purpose, gov'ment does not work remeber, gov'ment is the problem, reagan told us so and now they are making sure it becomes the truth

[Roxy66]

6. UMMMM..How did so many get help after the Tsunami?

We had tons of Hellicopters over there helping out

[TahitiNut]

11. By INVITATION for relief assistance by the host government.

Talk to Vincente Fox. :shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. I suspect Vicente has gone international ok

call it a sneaky suspicion but I suspect it went like this

City, we can't handle it,

State Governornment, we can't handle it

Feds, place the call

Why am I saying that? free clue, the cruise ship with supplies to be used for evacuation, would not be coming in otherwise.

[medeak]

9. Brits and French were evacuated

by their state depts...was reported yesterday.

edited for this link... Paris tour operator chartered planes to evacuate Belgian, Brits and French

http://www.terradaily.com/2005/051025215746.v1tdps1b.html

[prolesunited]

10. The tour operators are getting their people out

but if you are an independent traveler you're screwed. I was reading some of the articles and people have run out of cash cause they can't access atm networks.

[TahitiNut]

12. A private tour operator is NOT a governmental agency.

Where's the Red Cross? Where's Scaife? (He can afford it.) Where're the various private US interests? :shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. The MEXIC AN Red Cross is ON THE SCENE

and they are participants in the interntional saerch program and reunificiation program... care to tell me what exactly you want the MWXICAN Red cross to do beyond filling the obivous form snd contacting State?

Oh and I suspect there are ARC personnel (international response team) on the way

Look this is State, and state's job... place the blame where it needs to be placed

[countryjake]

3. "We MUST be very careful not to violate international law",

says Sen. Grassley. Huh? It's never slowed them down before! What's Mexico gonna do, go to the UN for SANCTIONS? What is the problem here? Once again, people are dying, pleading for aid from their own government and getting another bureaucratic run-around!

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Yes we must work wthiin Internatioal law, given the tools in

International law that cover this, it is so easy to do it

First mutual aid

Second, Geneva COnvetion and national societies, hell what am I doing, feel there is a call to be made

Rolls eyes again

[area51]

14. Grassley

I'd like to see him ripped a new one over his support of the insane nazi bankruptcy bill. I saw that mofo on PBS's Now, & he's vile. :mad: