Are there other countries helping US with the tragedy of Haiti?

[kentuck]

It is chaos. It is helplessness. It is so horrific it is unimaginable.

I noticed that Rush Limbaugh was critical of Obama for speaking out and sending help to Haiti within 24 hours when it took him 3 days to comment on the Pink Panther that burned his pecker off in an ill-fated and unsuccessful attempt to blow up an American plane with 300 people on board...

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Yes read the board

just from memory

Canada, teams on the ground as I type, Mexico Israel, France, Iceland (teams on the ground as I type) UK, Germany, Taiwan... Brazil, Cuba... Trinidad... and I am sure I am missing more than just a few.

[kentuck]

4. Sorry.

:-(

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. No problem if I were just watching the US Press

I'd think that we are the only ones going in

State has made a point of saying they are coordinating and all that, but in general our media is not going there, except a few times.

[Contrary1]

2. According to this thread, Norway is already there:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=7460972

[HeresyLives]

3. Gawd yes, all kinds of countries.

I don't know where this idea is coming from that only the US is helping Haiti!

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. You are not in the US are you?

If you were... you'd get it.

It is our media

[HeresyLives]

9. Then give your media a kick in the ass.

Every media in the world is online, and it's easy for Americans to discover that lots of countries are in Haiti helping out.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. We'be been trying

and don't lecture me.

[HeresyLives]

14. What??

You seem to have been trying to pick a fight all night, instead of being concerned for Haiti.

Tellya a secret...I'm not interested.

Now give your media a kick in the ass, and give over on trying to make this a pissing contest.

People are dying by the thousands. This is not a time to wave the flag.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. Here is a news flash fer you sparky

it is you waving the flag, not me.

And it is you trying to pick a fight.

Now here is once again a clue for you. I DID THIS FOR REAL as a member of an actual bona fide RESCUE SERVICE in the Third World, not in the US or CANADA. I know that people are dying in the the thousands. You want a shocker, thousands will die, in the next two years... that my dear IS THE MEDIUM TERM RECOVERY PERIOD for any disaster.

So again, don't lecture me... I actually have a clue on how you do this... and what is happening on the damn fucking ground... believe it or not a disaster has a very definitive time line... and I happen to know it by heart.

[HeresyLives]

18. My name isn't sparky,

and I'm not interested in the chip on your shoulder, or your past experience, or your assumption you are the only one who knows about disaster relief.

OR in your assertion that this is some kind of pissing contest.

Kindly focus on the topic at hand.

[nadinbrzezinski]

21. You mean the CHIP ON YOUR SHOULDER?

Yep... have a good life... off to the ignore you go, you ain't worth it.

[HeresyLives]

23. Sorry, not interested in your wandering delusions.

Perhaps you should read the site rules.

[polly7]

26. I think everyone knows people will die for years after any major

disaster. You don't have to be a bona fide rescuer to understand the physical and psychological damage they'll fight, and that some will eventually lose. As someone who's worked with EMS for a long time ....... I'm just sayin' ...... this isn't a battle for anyone to fight except those in Haiti trying to stay alive. Shouldn't we all be just glad so many are rushing to help?

[nadinbrzezinski]

28. Actually you'd be shocked to learn how many people don't

those with common sense do, but as my hubby loves to put it. common sense is not as common as it should.

[Hekate]

13. News gathering from all over is what we do here at DU, as you should know by now. Sheesh. nt

[HeresyLives]

17. Yes, it's a great thing about DU.

News from everywhere. Which is why I can't understand how people got the idea that only the US is helping Haiti.

A natural disaster anywhere...and the whole world shows up.

[nadinbrzezinski]

19. Shees indeed, he's missed some of the photos of rescuers from OTHER

places deploying, for example.

Or the fact that Canada, Mexico and the US are now coordinating the response... to avoid the other secondary disasters mostly.

He is angry since apparently I believe that the Americans were the only ones capable of doing some flight control, never mind the USCG cutter was on the scene... never mind that a FAC can come from anywhere in the world with training, I am not too particular who provides them...

But he's been looking for a fight all night.

At least he has not told me, like another poster, just how much I could have retired after 10 years in the Red Cross. Apparently, which is news to me, I got paid very well.

:-)

Never mind that as a volunteer I got a thank you here and there...

[HeresyLives]

22. He who?

Again you've wandered off topic into strange personal attacks.

Haiti, as KO showed tonight, doesn't have flight control...by anyone.

[Sultana]

11. LOL, true

But the US does do a good job in these situations... It truly beautiful to see the world united in effort to help the Haitians. Truly beautiful but tragedy is utterly heartbreaking.

:cry:

[Prometheus Bound]

7. There's 10,651 news articles listing them on Google News at the present moment.

http://news.google.com/news?ned=uk

[DURHAM D]

8. Yes - many.

One of the first to arrive was Iceland's disaster team with 10 tons of equipment.

Iceland is nearly bankrupt. Iceland has a female president.

Oh, and she is a lesbian.

LESBIANS GET THINGS DONE.

[kentuck]

12. There is a young lady where I work...

from Haiti. She just got back last week from a two-week visit to see her parents and younger brother. She cannot get in touch with anyone there. I saw a State Dept phone number which I gave to her. It all seems so close to home.

[Prometheus Bound]

15. L American countries rush aid to Haiti

MEXICO CITY, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) -- Planes have started to land in Port-au-Prince with drinking water, food, special tools, rescuers and doctors as Latin American countries acted to help Haiti out of the aftermath of Tuesday's magnitude-7.0 earthquake.

Though no exact number of casualties was confirmed so far, experts of disaster management are expecting it to reach the tens of thousands.

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive warned on Wednesday that the temblor might have caused 100,000 deaths. Haiti has a population of 8.3 million by a 2003 estimate.

A Venezuelan plane was among the first to touch down in Port-au-Prince with 14 tons of relief supplies and 39 rescuers.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said it was the first aid flight from his country, hinting there would be more into the Caribbean island state.

Two military planes took off from Brazil with 21 tons of relief supplies while the Brazilian government announced the country was providing Haiti with an emergency fund of 15 million U.S. dollars.

Chile was sending overnight a plane loaded with 12 tons of relief supplies along with doctors and rescuers with specially trained sniff dogs.

Peru is to send in 50 tons of relief supplies while Ecuador is to dispatch to Haiti dozens of rescuers.

Costa Rica is sending in 50 rescuers, mostly doctors and engineers.

Panama has also contributed 22 rescuers to the international effort as Nicaragua is flying two planes to fetch in international rescuers and their equipment along with 10 Nicaraguan rescuers.

Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said what in need was immediate actions of humanitarian aid for the Haitian people and government.

Bolivia is preparing to donate blood and food to Haiti while Cuban leader Raul Castro expressed readiness to join the international rescue effort with Cuban doctors and medicines.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/14/content_12808090.htm

[HeresyLives]

20. Just fantastic! So many good people and countries!

[JI7]

24. "helping US with the tragedy of Haiti"

that's a strange way of putting it.

[HeresyLives]

25. I thought so too.

But then it's been a strange night on here. I've been baffled by the whole tone of the responses.

[Mudoria]

27. Every media outlet I've seen has commented

on how many nation's have donated to the disaster relief effort. How did you miss it?

[Shallah Kali]

29. Just as when the US suffered from Katrina many other nations sprang into action to help

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hoHTdB0nMfLKLK7VUWb2WnL5F1dA

Latin American nations, many with experience of earthquakes and with UN peacekeepers in Haiti, scrambled to help.

Cuba, which felt the quake, sent 30 doctors to add to its medical staff already in Haiti. Brazil said it was sending 10 million dollars in immediate aid, while Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Colombia, Guatamala and Chile also promised help.

Canada readied two warships, helicopters and planes with supplies, as well as a large relief and rescue force.

From the Asia-Pacific, Australia pledged nine million dollars. Taiwan, whose ambassador to Haiti was hurt in the quake, South Korea and New Zealand also offered aid.

In Europe, the European Commission released three million euros in emergency assistance, while Britain, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain all volunteered help. A plane carrying search and rescue teams left from Moscow and Russia pledged to send a field hospital.

Rescue teams and aid start pouring into Haiti
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6987365.ece

As the full impact of the devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of the country became horribly clear, a 71-strong British team of rescue specialists with dogs and heavy equipment set off from Gatwick Airport, following a four man team which is due to arrive in Haiti today to assess the damage.

snip

The few hospitals left standing were over-whelmed with desperate people arriving seriously wounded and severey traumatised. There were so many that most of the hospitals were unable to function.

some of the first emergency workers to arrive came from Iceland, which sent a 37-man strong Search and Rescue team. Te Iceland foreign ministry said in a statement that the plane rescue plane would leave with foreign nationals on board and that "authorities in the nited States, Sweden and Denmark have already accepted the offer" of Iceland's assistance in evacuating foreign nationals.

snip

China pitched in with a pledge of $1 million, while the European Commission has approved $4.37 million. European Union member states Spain, The Netherlands and Germany promised millions more.

U.S., world rush rescue, relief workers to Haiti
Nations, international aid agencies, celebrities send supplies, urge support
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34853738/ns/world_news-haiti_earthquake/

Sixty-five rubble-clearing specialists and six sniffer dogs left France on Wednesday, while Spain dispatched three planeloads of rescuers and 100 tons of tents, blankets and cooking kits. Israel was sending in an elite Army rescue unit of engineers and doctors.

A military reconnaissance team from Canada was arriving aboard a C-130 transport plane to assess the need for mosquito nets, basic household goods, tents and sanitation packages.

One of the first teams expected to arrive in Haiti was a 37-member search-and-rescue unit from Iceland, along with 10 tons of rescue equipment.

Restoring communications
The Irish telecommunications company Digicel said it would donate $5 million to aid agencies and help repair Haiti's damaged phone network.

Doctors Without Borders said it had treated hundreds in tents near where its Martissant health center was damaged. The injuries include broken bones and some severe burns from domestic gas containers that exploded in collapsed buildings. It said hundreds more Haitians were being treated in tents elsewhere.

Canada planned an initial donation of $4.8 million, with more aid to flow after reports to Ottawa by military reconnaissance team.

[brettdale]

30. New Zealand Government

Has sent One million dollars in aid.