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Bush urges world to scorn Myanmar generals
Argentina News.Net
Tuesday 13th May, 2008
US President George Bush has suggested the world should be angry enough to condemn the Myanmar junta.
Mr Bush has told an interviewer that the generals have been callous in their slow response to the current cyclone disaster.
Experts have warned the relief effort is floundering and 1.5 million cyclone survivors are at grave risk from hunger and disease.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon has slammed the unacceptably slow response of the junta to the disaster and has urged the generals to accelerate aid distribution.
The flow of international aid into Myanmar has increased in the past two days, but relief agencies say much more is needed to avert a humanitarian catastrophe.
The UN said the relief operation was only at 10 per cent of the level needed to bring water, food and supplies to desperate survivors,
The US has offered US$13 million more in aid through UN agencies even though US officials involved in the relief effort have not been allowed beyond Rangoon airport.
Myanmar’s military government will not let in foreign logistics teams, who were queuing up in Bangkok hoping to get visas from the Myanmar Embassy.
Deeply suspicious of any outside influences, the generals have reiterated that foreign will not be put in charge of relief efforts.
A Western diplomat in Rangoon said he had heard reports of extensive dysentery outbreaks.
State television raised the death toll by about 3,480 to 31,938 with another 29,770 still missing.
The United Nations says more than 100,000 are likely to have been killed.
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Anonymous
05-13-08, 09:46 PM |
Missing the point people
People are dieing and many seemed more concerned about insulting Bush.. Looks like your more concerned with bagging Bush than the poor people in Burma! There seems to be only one intellegent posting and would like to know if it is true:: ie Chevron keeping the military in barrels of cash, while near by residents are forced into slave labour. .. it this true?
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Anonymous
05-13-08, 06:57 PM |
why so many words for this bastard son of a bastard father?
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Anonymous
05-13-08, 05:49 PM |
How bout blameng Chevron for keeping the military in barrels of cash, while near by residents are forced into slave labour.
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~galljdaj+
05-13-08, 10:17 AM |
Bush urges world to scorn Myanmar generals
Yes mr.bush the world is angry at the Militaries! And the poor lying coward you are, clearly shows as you exclude yourself from the anger!
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everest
05-13-08, 10:52 AM |
it’s easy to criticize communists. how about you handling Lousiana fiasco?
you never criticized blood diamond tragedy, zimbabwe tragedy, congo tragedy,the upcoming nepalese tragedy,palasteins tragedy (after 60 years of formation of their nation, they still are refuges).
Why Burma ?
Answer Burma got communist government.
Why Iraq?
Answer black diamond.
Why Afganisthan ?
Answer: Stratgic location to control iranial regions and indian subcontinent(that what russians were thinking as well)
Anyway bush should have been seeing mirror policy on Burmese generals command.
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everest
05-13-08, 11:08 AM |
how about your performance in lousiana tragedy?
mr double standard ?
hopefully incoming idiot is not a mirror image.
USA needs some tough men like synergy of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger.
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hopeful but helpless
05-13-08, 11:31 AM |
"Mr Bush has told an interviewer that the generals have been callous in their slow response to the current cyclone disaster." What happened in Louisiana Mr. President? Are they not STILL waiting for assistance? The current situations in Myanmar and other countries is dire and we should help if we can, but do not ignore this country’s problems. We can hardly keep our own people safe and fed yet you continue to offer millions of dollars in aid to foreign countries. How about giving us aid...the residents of the United States of America who work our butts off only to lose our jobs, our homes, our transportation and watch our children go hungry.
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Anonymous
05-14-08, 12:46 AM |
Why?
Unregistered;82092:
People are dieing and many seemed more concerned about insulting Bush.. Looks like your more concerned with bagging Bush than the poor people in Burma! There seems to be only one intellegent posting and would like to know if it is true:: ie Chevron keeping the military in barrels of cash, while near by residents are forced into slave labour. .. it this true?
Actually we all know that getting rid of Bush will save more lives, than if we rescued all the people of Burma. Plus if bush goes into Burma he will kill more civilians than any crisis could. Burma has oil- shite there screwed!
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Sammy
05-14-08, 01:28 AM |
Let us do not forget
Yes let us do not forget that this present regeme that has highjacked the US government works for the industrial military complex, and war related corporations, so their primary principle is to have conflicts, and to warmonger in creating new conflicts for the sake of financial returns to their war investments, so their main purpose is to sell, instigate, and promote conflicts.
Never since this present administration has taken command, there have been sparks of dialogue with the presumed enemy, infact this present administration does not even know, or pretents not to know, the words, communication, dialogue, or diplomacy, their line of thinking is arrogance, know it all, and bullism.
All civilized nations use means to avoid conflicts from developing, and they go to the extreme to avoid the loss of innocent human lives from being lost through arising conflicts. but not this administration, this administration lacks culture, and knowledge on how to deal with different cultures and accept their differences, and respect their way of life, without imposing theirs upon them.
Sammy
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