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04-28-2007, 09:51 PM
Katrina
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801113.html?hpid=topnews
Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies' offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina's victims.
Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/world/middleeast/29reconstruct.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success — in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections — were no longer working properly.
Our government has proven time and again it has minimal interest in helping the people of this nation nor abroad in the midst of a disaster. While some companies receive millions if not billions to squander on projects left to rot, the U.S. has also denied or limited access to help from outside our borders. What happened to the compassionate conservative, why are many left to suffer without
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/28/AR2007042801113.html?hpid=topnews
Many of the U.S. diplomats who received the message, however, were beginning to witness a more embarrassing reality. They knew the U.S. government was turning down many allies' offers of manpower, supplies and expertise worth untold millions of dollars. Eventually the United States also would fail to collect most of the unprecedented outpouring of international cash assistance for Katrina's victims.
Iraq
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/world/middleeast/29reconstruct.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
The United States has previously admitted, sometimes under pressure from federal inspectors, that some of its reconstruction projects have been abandoned, delayed or poorly constructed. But this is the first time inspectors have found that projects officially declared a success — in some cases, as little as six months before the latest inspections — were no longer working properly.
Our government has proven time and again it has minimal interest in helping the people of this nation nor abroad in the midst of a disaster. While some companies receive millions if not billions to squander on projects left to rot, the U.S. has also denied or limited access to help from outside our borders. What happened to the compassionate conservative, why are many left to suffer without
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