Comments on: Myanmar: Bloggers discuss cyclone disaster http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2008/05/07/myanmar-bloggers-discuss-cyclone-disaster/ Beyond the World news headlines Fri, 16 May 2008 02:37:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: JuleS http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2008/05/07/myanmar-bloggers-discuss-cyclone-disaster/#comment-95 JuleS Sat, 10 May 2008 16:40:33 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2008/05/07/myanmar-bloggers-discuss-cyclone-disaster/#comment-95 Time has posted a story this morning asking whether it's time to invade Myanmar as a result of that government's unwillingness to allow humanitarian aid into the country. I posed that very idea yesterday, framed from a somewhat different angle -- instead of spending $1 billipn a week on a pointless war in a country that wants nothing to do with us and our "saving you from yourselves" indoctrination of its people, shouldn't we instead divert our troops to Myanmar, who desperately need our assistance and our money. The Bushwhacker has scrounged around to find a mere $3.25 million for Myanmar, yet continues to pour $100s of millions a DAY into Iraq, money which so far has not made a dent in whatever it is we're supposed to be funding. In answer to Time's question: YES!!! Pull the multi-national forces together for the RIGHT cause -- out of Iraq and into Myanmar. Time has posted a story this morning asking whether it’s time to invade Myanmar as a result of that government’s unwillingness to allow humanitarian aid into the country.

I posed that very idea yesterday, framed from a somewhat different angle — instead of spending $1 billipn a week on a pointless war in a country that wants nothing to do with us and our “saving you from yourselves” indoctrination of its people, shouldn’t we instead divert our troops to Myanmar, who desperately need our assistance and our money. The Bushwhacker has scrounged around to find a mere $3.25 million for Myanmar, yet continues to pour $100s of millions a DAY into Iraq, money which so far has not made a dent in whatever it is we’re supposed to be funding.

In answer to Time’s question: YES!!! Pull the multi-national forces together for the RIGHT cause — out of Iraq and into Myanmar.

]]> By: Bill http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2008/05/07/myanmar-bloggers-discuss-cyclone-disaster/#comment-94 Bill Fri, 09 May 2008 01:29:35 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/global/2008/05/07/myanmar-bloggers-discuss-cyclone-disaster/#comment-94 Perhaps we could air-drop pallets of supplies from C-130 aircraft. They would not require permission to land, and any babble from the kleptocracy that runs Burma about violating airspace can be ignored. Perhaps we could air-drop pallets of supplies from C-130 aircraft. They would not require permission to land, and any babble from the kleptocracy that runs Burma about violating airspace can be ignored.

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