CNN/ American evacuation won't begin until WEDNESDAY!

[Joanne98]

So says the US Embassy in Beirut..........

It's KATRINA all over again. DUer's get ready to beat the GOP to death with this......

BTW! The FRENCH have started getting their people out today.

[Sanity Claws]

1. Is Michael Brown busy until Wednesday?

Why else would the US wait until Wednesday?

[Joanne98]

6. Brownie could do a better job than this......

[sproutster]

2. WTF??!!! I f'ing knew it

This WH is a f'ing f'd up joke! They could give a rats ass about their citizens. What a bunch of crap.

[Turbineguy]

3. Now I guess we know

where Michael "heck of a job" Browne ended up!

On edit: Dang! Not fast enough!

[dbt]

4. Of course it won't!

Gotta wait until those oil prices firm up and hold before we can think about human life, doncha know! Your Tax Dollars At Lunch.

:freak:
dbt
Remember New Orleans

[wakeme2008]

5. PLUS THEY ARE CHARGING

the Americans they pull out... :grr:

[Joanne98]

7. YOU'RE KIDDING! Do they have to make a profit on EVERYTHING!

[Kutjara]

12. What, you didn't think anything is free in the Land of the Free, did you?

Only those Americans who have money are worth saving. I'm sure the Navy takes MasterCard, though, so people hopefully won't have to pry out their own gold teeth to pay for passage.

[wakeme2008]

20. In the first CNN on this they said you have to sign "loan"

papers to get out.

:grr:

[spindrifter]

26. As far as I know, they always charge you if you have to

be repatriated. You sign the promissory note, and then you pay.

[pitohui]

41. this is what i thought also EOM

.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

8. Now watch this drive and hand me that guitar..... n/t

[tsuki]

16. the guitar, my first thought. nt

[thepurpose]

9. What? That goddam Clinton. If it wasn't for him them people would be

home by now. How much more of Clinton's mistakes can this country take for godsakes.

[karlrschneider]

11. Now watch for replies from DUers with broken sarcasmometers...

:eyes:

[thepurpose]

13. I don't have a sacrasmometer. I was going to get one, but that goddamn

Clinton cut off the funding.

[karlrschneider]

17. LOL!

I hear ya...
;-)

[leftchick]

10. isn't freddie whitfield just awful?

can you imagine if clinton handled a situation like this? omg!

[Poll_Blind]

14. AND they'll be charged for their evacuation. (shakes head) n/t

PB

[Warpy]

15. Dead Americans are an excuse for the PNAC crowd

to get us into this thing.

[Joanne98]

18. We need all our best DU writers to get their sharpies out......

Can you imagine how outraged the Murkins are going to be?? Imagine the pictures of crying Americans begging for help. Women and children (cry cry) "Where is our President?" Oh!! This is too good to be true. And the "cut and run" French are braving the bombs TODAY to save their people. But BUSH is out to lunch. AGAIN! This is truly a gift from GAWD!

[tblue37]

19. Not out to lunch.

Enjoying barbecued pig--so much it's all he can talk about.

[JohnnyLib]

21. No tin hat here,

I've accepted the horrible reality that we have no leadership, that the Current Occupant has given his "best" and it just ain't good enough.

Maybe some volunteer efforts to get the evacuation going?

[catmandu57]

22. You're on your own

That's painfully clear, wherever americans are, in a devastated American city, town, or whatever, In a foreegn country when all hell breaks lose. If you don't belong to the gold circle, your on your own, learn it live it.

[Sherman A1]

23. Agreed

One supposes that, it's that personal responsibility thing. Never mind that we pay taxes for government services, you are on your own when they are needed.

[Recursion]

24. putting on tinfoil hat...

is it too crazy to think they want to keep the Americans there to LIHOP a massacre they can pin on Syria and/or Iran?

[Lars39]

25. Not with this administration, it's not.

They were expendable to this administration the minute they turned down a cease fire.

[Straight Shooter]

27. That's no tinfoil hat ... it's a bullshit detector.

Unless anyone can think of a damn good reason why our fellow citizens have to wait until Wednesday, for crying out loud, then I would say you have suggested a fairly decent hypothesis.

May it never be proved. :(

[Joanne98]

31. My sister thinks Bush is using the Americans as pawns....

Leverage over Israel. I don't know yet but if all seems funny to me. I wouldn't put anything past this bloody thirsty administration.

[European Socialist]

28. protecting Americans is job1 with Chimpy--He wouldn't lie.

[snappyturtle]

29. This is probably a stupid question but......

what are most of the American citizens doing in Lebanon? Are they gov't. employees? Private sector?

[Neecy]

32. Not a stupid question...it's actually quite important

I heard earlier today on the news that many of the 25,000 Americans there are actually Lebanese-Americans who hold dual citizenship.

Now I know that some are probably Christians, but how many are Muslim? Any reason Bush wouldn't want them re-entering the United States? He'll let them all be slaughtered first. Their seeming incompetence always shields an evil motive.

[Recursion]

37. eh, Lebanon is barely a "muslim" nation

it's about 55% muslim (slightly more shi'a than sunni), 40% christian, 5% druze. *by and large* the Lebanese that emigrated to America were christian. I'm not saying there are 0 muslim Lebanese-Americans, but they're certainly not a big part of the group.

As an answer to OP's question, Americans were in Lebanon because we had just hailed Lebanon as an example of Democracy working in the middle east, and Beiruit is the Paris of the Mediterranean.

[snappyturtle]

43. I read this as a "false flag" ....

on Rense.com this morning. It suggested that * would sacrifice the American citizens in Lebanon and enter the "war". A scenario might be, American helicopter evacuating Americans from Lebanon is downed and all aboard killed. Not so far fetched as I think of Katrina victims left, for days, to their own devices for survival. Other countries began evacuating their citizens last Thursday!

I guess I'm just ignorant for not realizing there could be so many Lebanese-Americans. Thanks.

[pitohui]

42. there are a great many lebanese-americans

such things as visiting family springs to mind

[onecent]

30. Bush is an incompetent prick. This is just like New Orleans....

Why don't the people in the G8 boycott this son of a bitch.???????????????????

[bdamomma]

36. they are not showing us the protestors out there who want

bush's ass out of there.

[jean]

33. No one could have anticipated getting Murkins out of Lebanon ...

they're following the tried and true Katrina time line.

[w4rma]

34. 25 thousand people to evacuate and they couldn't even handle

evacuations in **our own country** before/after a hurricane. Of course they won't start until Wednesday. The Repug leadership is incompetant in everything except making themselves wealthy through theft and con-artistry.

**And** the Repug leadership has been blocking all calls for a ceasefire so they are **actively** putting American civilians in danger.

[mnhtnbb]

38. Hey, they probably had to get the contract signed with KBR

to do the evacuations!

[bdamomma]

35. human life means nothing to these people

NOTHING. and these people is bush's cabal.

[mmonk]

39. So who gets the contract to evacuate them?

[HuffleClaw]

40. the 'plan' is to have syria involved by then

i think they are hoping some americans get killed. to justify a bush war