Re: Evacuees being turned away from Houston\'s Astrodome
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I think a reporter this evening summed it up best...
We're in Iraq under the pretense that we are defenders of peace and helping the oppressed citizens.....
And this is how we handle the suffering in our own country.
What must the world think now?
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This thought crossed my mind the other day. Very humbling. On a sidenote, I heard that the UN offered assistance in the way of expertise (i.e. recovering infrastructure from flooding, real specific big think stuff, not $$$) and the U.S. has yet to reply.
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