Hurricane Katrina déjà vu in Lebanon: "Where are you, America?"

[Human Torch]

'Please get us out'

The Esseily family was winding up a vacation in Lebanon when the airstrikes began. Nearly a week later, they're still looking for a way to get back to California. "I have two kids a baby, and they're scared. I'm scared," Monika Esseily said. The family also says that despite daily bombings, the U.S. Embassy's only response is "We will call you."

http://www.cnn.com/

U.S. family: Get us out of Lebanon
Parents and children hear bomb explosions all night

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/07/18/stranded.family/index.html

(CNN) -- The Esseily family was winding up a vacation in Lebanon when the airstrikes began. Nearly a week later, they're still looking for a way to get back to California.

Tony and Monika Esseily and their three children were asleep in their apartment, nearing the end of a month-long holiday, when Israel began bombing Beirut.

"It was an extreme shock when I woke up and -- actually, we heard it," Monika Esseily told CNN. "3:20 in the morning, we got up, and the whole sky was just alit. And I'm like, 'Oh no, oh no, oh no.' "

Beirut's airport was closed after Israel warplanes bombed its runways, and every night is punctuated by the sound of airstrikes.

[fooj]

1. "Where are you, America?"

No shit. Where the hell ARE we? :grr:

[babylonsister]

2. Change the location, it could be Katrina, or Wilma (MX), or

(insert your own disaster this admin has been absent for).

[MadMaddie]

3. Unfortunately another event like this was going to happen

where tax paying American citizens would be stranded waiting on this pathetic excuse for a government to save them....the fact that other countries reacted immedietly and started evacuating the first day of the crisis....and the US sends a ship two days after it starts......

I am waiting for the Neocon nutcases to blame the Americans who are stranded over there.....that's what they are good at.....

I pray that these families get back to the states safely!!

[grateful581]

4. this is unbelievable!

Our government doesn't care if Americans live or die anymore.
F**K you president bush.
GET AMERICANS OUT OF HARMS WAY NOW!